Tuesday, 2/10/04 -- Seventh Grade 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:
visually disabled
involuntary servitude
solid waste (Not that!)
economically disadvantaged
undocumented transborder migrant
Correct Test 15.
"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
"Translate." (Sum up the above in 20 words or less.)
This idea is similar to something else we read this year.
What?
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.
Overhead evaluations of persuasive essay examples.
Final Draft due Friday.