Thursday, 2/19/04 -- Seventh Grade
Finish and correct "The Earth Men." For those already finished: Write toward your 600 words. Here are some suggested topics: Writing Styles: (R) Eyewitness Report (L) Response to Literature (BONUS)  (E) Evaluation (P) Persuasion (T) Technical Writing  (P-S) Problem-Solution
  1. (R or E or P) Finally, a good assembly. (Review or suggestion...)
  2. (T) Here's what a new student needs to know about our school, step by step.
  3. (P-S) Something this school really needs is . . .
  4. (R or E) What was the worst meal you've had? Write about it as if the event is taking place right now.
  5. (P-S) The problem is: Math is boring. My solutions are:
  6. (T) How to hang out.
  7. (P) Why I deserve a larger allowance.
  8. (L) Rewrite a scene from The Outsiders from Dally's POV (or Darry's or Two-Bit's).
  9. Respond to one of the Ray Bradbury quotes.
 Ray Bradbury...

Who do you want to talk to? All those morons who are living across the world somewhere? You don't even want to talk to them at home. (On the topic of Internet chat rooms)

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. On occasion? Sure. As relaxation? Great. But not full time -- And a lot of people are doing that. And while they're doing that, I'll go ahead and write another novel. (Salon.com, August 29, 2001)

I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite
Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation? ("Why Cartoons Are Forever" , Los Angeles Times, Dec. 3, 1989.) 
Correct vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. You might use words more than once. You might not use them all.
graft, resilient, resilience, aurora, expendable, poised, infinitesimal, correlate, paradox, annihilate, primeval
  1. The machine glowed. It had a(n) __________ that flickered brightly; orange, blue, and silver.
  2. He is not a(n) _____________ member of the team; we need his help desperately.
  3. The gardener _____________(ed) a new limb onto the ailing tree.
  4. Since there were 1,000 points possible in the quarter, one or two would be a(n) _____ amount.
  5. "With a stamp of your foot, you __________ first one, then a dozen...a billion possible mice."
  6. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered ____.
  7. In some Third World countries, the police are paid so little that they have to resort to ___________ to survive.
  8. A trampoline is, by definition, ___________.
  9. "The government doesn't like us here. We have to pay big _________ to keep our business."
  10. "That'd be a ________. Time doesn't permit that sort of mess -- a man meeting himself."
  11. He tried to be be very ________ and calm when he met his girlfriend's parents.
  12. "Crushing certain plants could add up ___________(ly). A little, tiny error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion."
  13. We tried to ______ our arrival times so that we could be there together.
  14. The display of colored lights in the sky that happens near the North Pole is called the _________ borealis. (EC+1) It is more commonly known as the ________ _________.
"A Sound of Thunder"