Monday, 11/28/05
Copy homework into assignment book.
Warm Up. Copy into notebook.  (3-6 are euphemisms.)
  1. atom : nucleus :: solar system : _________
  2. Mercury, ________, Earth, __________
  3. "Collateral damage" = ___________
  4. "Friendly fire" = __________
  5. "Capital punishment" = ________
  6. Euthanasia is a euphemism that literally means ________ _________. (Hint: the eu prefix means good.)
Pretest #10

 "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

  1. "Translate."
  2. This idea is similar to something else we read this year. What?
  3. Think of a time from history when there was a clash of two very different cultures. What usually happens?
  4. If someone unusual-looking came to your door claiming to be from another planet, what would you do? What would you need as proof?
"The Earth Men"