Monday, 12/4/06.
Copy homework into assignment book.
The experiment begins! All written work this week, except the Academic Words sentences, is optional! The reading is not optional!
Warm Up.
  1. Draw a diagram that shows what a day and a year are, astronomically speaking.
  2. December 7th, 1941: "A day that will live in infamy." What happened?
  3. What does infamous mean?
  4. What happened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776?
  5. 32/40 = _____%
  6. (Copy!) start : finish :: ______(ing) : end
  7. (Copy!) Euphemisms:  a) "friendly fire"  b) "collateral damage"  c) corporeal punishment
Pretest #4A. Academic Words IV.

"The Martian" p119.