Tuesday, 3/24/09
Warm Up I. Copy and fill in, old school. All answers will be spelling words. (I check 600 words: 3/17-2/24.)
  1. realistic : imaginary :: environmental : ________
  2. primary : secondary :: _________ : final
  3. stars : observatory :: food : ___________
  4. flashback : foreshadowing :: permanent : ______
  5. fakery : forgery :: explanation : __________
  6. fair : discriminatory :: realistic : _________
  7. a) "I am lying."  b) "The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing." 
    These are two more examples of  _______s.
Warm Up II. Pick one of the following Ray Bradbury quotes and respond600. What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Why? 50+ Words.

"The jails are full of one million non-readers. We can't let it happen again. If you allow another generation to grow up to be 12 years old.... without the ability to read, write, and think, we're sunk. If they can't read, if they can't write, if they can't think, they become criminals. We've already lost two generations. Unless we teach reading intensely and completely in kindergarten and first grade, the whole civilization goes to hell."

"[Television is] a really dreadful influence on all of us. Don't ever look at local television news again. It's all crap. There's no news, there's no information. It's negative, negative, negative. You look at that, and you think the world is coming to an end."

"If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were. "

"Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down."
 
 
 
 
 

Pink Sheet Pairs: Interrogative and Demonstrative Pronouns
Read and do p61 together.
A4, A5, A6, B2, B4
Pretest 1 together. (Open Pink Sheet)

  1. whom: a) object, demonstrative  b) subject, interrogative  c) object, interrogative  d) subject, demonstrative  e) NOTA
  2. who's  a) object, demonstrative  b) subject, interrogative  c) object, interrogative  d) subject, demonstrative  e) NOTA
  3. here  a) object, demonstrative  b) subject, interrogative  c) object, interrogative  d) subject, demonstrative  e) NOTA
  4. those  a) object, demonstrative  b) subject, interrogative  c) object, interrogative  d) subject, demonstrative  e) NOTA
  5. The best player on the team is ______?   a) whom - because it's the object of the preposition  b) whom - because it's a predicate pronoun  c) who - because it's a predicate pronoun  d) whom - because it's the direct object  e) who - because it's the direct object
  6. A4: a) who  b) whom
  7. A5: a) Who  b) Whom
  8. A6: a) Who  b) Whom
  9. B2: a) These  b) Those
  10. B4:  a) that  b) that there

 

"A Sound of Thunder"  by Ray Bradbury