Tuesday, 2/18/03
Copy homework into assignment book.
Warm Up. Copy into notebook.
Euphemism (n U FEM ISM): A "nice" way of saying something (usually) unpleasant.
Example: passed on = died, sanitation engineer = garbage man. Try these--COPY:
  1. visually disabled
  2. involuntary servitude
  3. solid waste (Not that!)
  4. economically disadvantaged
  5. undocumented transborder migrant
"The Earth Men" by Ray Bradbury.
From The Martian Chronicles. Originally published in 1948.

Intro...
    "Sometimes I ain't so sho who's got him a right to say a man is crazy and
when he ain't. Sometimes I think there ain't none of us pure crazy and ain't
none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it
ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is
looking at him when he does it."
    From As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
 

  1. "Translate." (Sum up the above in 20 words or less.)
  2. This idea is similar to something else we read this year. What?
  3. If someone unusual-looking came to your door claiming to be from another planet, what would you do? What would you need as proof?


Read aloud.