Wednesday, 12/07/05 - Early Release Schedule
Warm Up. Copy into notebook.
  1. 9/11 : 2001 :: 12/7 : _________
  2. 2000 : Hong Kong reverts to China :: ________ : U.S. bolts from England
  3. * snow : blizzard :: wind : _________
  4. * shorten : abbreviate :: play : ________
  5. * moon : satellite :: blue whale : __________
  6. * bad guy : villain :: face : ________
Correct Vocabulary Homework
Vocabulary Pretest - You will use words more than once; you won't use them all.
blasphemy, caper, visage, lineage, delusion, relish, propagate, naive, aesthetic, cynical, leviathan, antecedent
  1. She scraped her knee _________(ing) around on the blacktop.
  2. Spender admired how the Martian culture was able to blend the _______ and the practical sides of life.
  3. In order for a species to survive, it must ___________ itself.
  4. One of the crimes Joan of Arc was burned for was ___________ against the church.
  5. Ray Bradbury compares the Third Expedition's rocket to a "pale, sea ___________."
  6. He ate his hotdog with great ___________, savoring every bite.
  7. naive : savvy :: optimistic : _________
  8. During WWII, giant posters with Hitler's ________ loomed from almost every wall in Germany.
  9. His family's ______ here in the U.S. was very long, stretching all the way back to the Mayflower.
  10. (3) Some people say that we are only under a __________ that there is life after death, that we are being _________ to think that we are anything but worm food. But someone who is deeply religious might say that kind of talk is _________.
MC: "The Third Expedition" and "-and the Moon..." (10p)
  1. (3x) What causes the men to abandon ship, against the captain's orders?
  2. (3x) Why does Captain Black say the Martians had to have "created" the town from his memories?
  3. (3x) Why did they choose 1926?
  4. (3x) Umm, Ray Bradbury's ending to the story, while being very dramatic, has a sort of a  logical problem. What is it?
  5. (Moon) Why did all of the men on this expedition have two specialties which they were experts in?
  6. (Moon) What is Spender worried that Earth people will eventually do to Mars?
  7. (2)(Moon) Spender seems like the only crew member who doesn't want to _________. Use a vocabulary word to say why.
  8. (Moon) What effect did chickenpox have on the Martians' bodies?
  9. (Moon) All of the cities on Mars were ____________. (Besides dead.)
  10. Bonus (+1) True or False? In #8, I used the correct choice of affect/effect.