Tuesday, 12/16/08 - Weird Geography Bee Schedule.
For those who are exempt from the homework: Warm Up. Answer in notebook. (+1/2 for each correct answer, up to +6 for all.)
  1. sackbut, gittern, rebec? What are they?
  2. What are the antipodes? 
    (Three answers are acceptable - You may give all three.)
  3. What's a bodkin?
  4. What's a Foxwhelp?
  5. What are paternosters?
  6. "Corpus Bones" was a popular mild oath in those days. 
    What does the Corpus refer to?
  7. How does Runt help us figure out when this story takes place? 
    (Between 1272 and 1307.)
  8. What's a dowry?
  9. Which president is on the US $100 bill?
 For those who had to do the Pink Sheet Review:
 
  1. Correct 1/2 of the Pink Sheet Review.
  2. Click in the other 1/2 for PSR Pretest I.
    4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19


(You need 17/20 for the week to be exempt on Friday.) 

IRW  "Reading a Web Page" p370-371

  1. When the student searched for "Could an asteroid hit the Earth?" the search engine returned more than 10,000 results.  a) True  b) False  c) You can't tell.
  2. Even though the student asked a five word question, the search engine ignored one or more of them. How many?  a) 1  b) 2  c) 3   d) 4
  3. A link is always underlined.  a) True  b) False
  4. A web address is also known as a...  a) ULR.  b) http.  c) search engine.  d) site.  e) URL.
  5. Not including the search feature, how many "interactive areas" are linked to on the "All About Asteroids" main page?  a) 1  b) 2  c) 3  d) 4  e) 0
  6. From what we can tell from the main page, the "All About Asteroids" site gives information on... a) how many asteroids hit Mars each year.  b) how people can make their own model asteroids.  c) what an asteroid is.  d) movie myths about asteroids.  e) all of the above.
  7. Which link would you click to look for something on the "All About Asteroids" site that's not listed on the main page?  a) See More Science Topics  b) See More General Topics  c) Search This Site  d) E-mail the Authors  e) Take This Poll
MWA  Aloud.