Warm Up

1. * ___________ : relevant :: impertinent : irrelevant
2. lose : fail :: win : * __________
3. speech : * ____________ :: song : ballad
4. uncommon : rare :: common : * ____________

Coin toss for cheat sheets

Vocabulary Pretest: objectivity, dissemble, collaboration, , segregate, ambivalence,
                             discriminate,  dilemma, diligence, antagonist, idiosyncrasies

1. Persistence and ____________ will help you to succeed in life.
2. A _________ is having to choose between two bad options.
3. Poles who aided the occupying German forces were guilty of _____________ .
4. You ___________ when you choose one option instead of another.
5. But you _____________ when you separate different items from each other.
6. Old people have many ____________ : odd habits they have developed over a lifetime.
7. He tried to __________ when Mr. Indvik asked him where he had been; but his red ears gave him away.
8. In Art Spiegelman's old comic strip, "Prisoner on the Hell Planet", Artie portrays his mother Anja as the __________ .  This surprises us, because Vladek, the protagonist of Maus, always portrays Anja as a perfect wife and mother.
9. That comic strip lets us know that Artie views his mother with a certain degree of ___________.
10. __________ allows us to view a situation in an impartial manner.

Read Maus aloud, as time allows
 

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