Monday, 10/22/07
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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.)


Spelling Pretest #7

"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

The Martian Chronicles

Think of a time from history when there was a clash of two very different cultures. What usually happens?
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", p16