Tuesday, 2/25/03
Add to vocabulary list: ambiguous. Example: Yesterday's Warm Up #4 was an ambiguous question. There could be many ways to interpret it. Everybody gets credit for it. If you already got it right, you can take an additional +1/2.
Warm Up. Copy 1-5 into notebook. For #6, choose the best explanation for the quote.

1. (1/2) *lose : triumph :: cacophony : ___________
2. (1/2) *divide : combine :: environmental : _________
3. (1/2) *narrate : story :: _________ : debris
4. (1/2) *won : triumphed :: burden : ____________
5. (1/2) *sequence : combination :: personality : __________
6. (1) "Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down." (Ray Bradbury in  the Brown Daily Herald. March 24, 1995.) a) Everyone should learn to fly. b) Do stupid things, like jumping off cliffs. c) You should try new things, even if you don't always know what you're doing. d) If you're going to do stupid things, make sure you have a "safety net."

More Ray Bradbury...

• "If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were."  (Salon.com, August 29, 2001)
• "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
• --Thanks to Ray Bradbury Online for the quotes.

"A Sound of Thunder"
Writing...600 word rough draft due next Tuesday, 3/4. On disk and printed.  600 words due next Tuesday also.  Ideas:

1. Speculate on what "aliens" from another world might be like. Looks? Technology? Etc.?
2. Invent a new game show. Who's the host? What are the stunts/questions?
3. Imagine you are the editor of a major  national news magazine. Write the cover story you would choose for the issue that would be on the newstands February 25, 2013.
4. How I feel about my alarm clock.
5. What if words did hurt like sticks and stones?
6. Invent a new kind of furniture. Show how would be used.
7. Student for Sale. Pretend you are a product that people can purchase and write an advertisement to sell yourself. List things that you can do. For  how much are you selling? What accessories come with you?
8. Write a poem around these three words: hare, hair, heir. Or: cents, sense, scents. Or...
9. Discuss something you just wish you understood better. Or wish you could do better.
10. If I could talk to my younger self, I would tell me...
11. Make a list of things you would never see in your front yard… Turn it into a poem.
12. What is your favorite word, and why? Write a poem about that word.
13. Some linguists (people who study language) believe that words like "ouch" came from very early man, and correspond to the sound that people make/made when hurt. Speculate on the origins of "shhhh"  or "ooops" or "wow" or ??? Where did these words come from?
14. Which PE activities have been the best? Why? Worst? Why? Give suggestions for improving the PE program.