Monday, 11/13/06
Copy homework into assignment book.
Warm Up. Copy the definition, and then copy each euphemism and try to translate it.
Euphemism (n - U FEM ISM):
A "nice" way of saying something (usually) unpleasant.
Examples: passed on = died, sanitation engineer = garbage man.

  1.visually disabled
  2.involuntary servitude
  3.solid waste (Not that!)
   4.Landfill
   5.economically disadvantaged
   6.undocumented transborder migrant
   7. Euthanasia is a euphemism that literally means ________ _________. (Hint: the eu prefix means good.)

Pretest 2A. Mark and click. 8 minutes.
One sentence for each word due Friday.
 

 "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 Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Record book numbers.
"The Earth Men"