Monday, 11/28/05
Copy homework into assignment
book.
Warm Up. Copy into notebook. (3-6 are euphemisms.)
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atom : nucleus :: solar system : _________
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Mercury, ________, Earth, __________
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"Collateral damage" = ___________
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"Friendly fire" = __________
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"Capital punishment" = ________
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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
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"Translate."
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This idea is similar to something else we read this year.
What?
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Think of a time from history when there was a clash of two
very different cultures. What usually happens?
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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"