Wednesday, 3/17/10 -- Warm Up. Copy. Use your spelling pretest and your vocabulary sheet to help you.
  1. realistic : imaginary :: environmental : ________
  2. primary : secondary :: _________ : final
  3. grocery : store :: fence : ________
  4. complicated : elementary :: social : ________
  5. fakery : forgery :: bribery : __________
  6. The gardener ______(ed) a new limb onto the ailing tree.
Prepositional Phrases V.
  1. I like to ride my bike to school.   a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  2. After much supplication and many cookies, the teacher with the goatee finally forgave the students for their heinous behavior.  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  3. After much supplication and many cookies, the teacher with the goatee finally forgave the students for their heinous behavior.  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  4. After much supplication and many cookies, the teacher finally forgave the students for their heinous behavior.  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  5. Our platypus has been running behind schedule until nowa) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  6. I am going to skip with you on my way home from Grandmother's house.   a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  7. I am going to skip with you on my way home from Grandmother's house.   a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  8. Some of the disagreements between ducks are beside the point.  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  9. The clown in the clown car drove into a tree.  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  10. The clown in the clown car drove into a treea) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase


Check IRW (396-398) -- Click in what you marked.
Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest.

  1. He is not a(n) ________ member of the team; we need his help desperately.  a) aurora  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) subliminal
  2. Since there were 1,000 points possible in the quarter, one or two would be a(n) _______ amount.  a) infinitesimal  b) poised  c) emanate  d) resilient  e) subliminal
  3. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered _________.  a) infinitesimal  b) paradox  c) expendable  d) resilient  e) subliminal
  4. In some Third World countries, the police are paid so little that they have to resort to ________ to survive.  a) infinitesimal  b) poised  c) graft  d) subtle  e) expendable
  5. There is a lot of ___________ advertising in movies. They call it "product placement." a) infinitesimal  b) poised  c) emanate  d) correlate  e) subliminal
  6. A trampoline is, by definition, ___________. a) infinitesimal  b) poised  c) subtle  d) resilient  e) expendable
  7. "That'd be a(n) ________. Time doesn't permit that sort of mess -- a man meeting himself." a) aurora  b) paradox  c) expendable  d) resilient  e) subtle
  8. There is a direct ___________(ion) between education and income.  a) poise  b) paradox  c) aurora  d) correlate  e) graft
  9. He tried to be very ________ and calm when he met his girlfriend's parents. a) correlate  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
  10. It was hard to believe that such a big voice ________(ed) from such a little girl.   a) correlate  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
  11. The display of colored lights in the sky that happens near the North Pole is called the ________ borealis.  a) aurora  b) paradox  c) expendable  d) resilient  e) subtle
  12. His joke was so _________, it took me a while to get it. a) correlate  b) poised  c) expendable  d) resilient  e) subtle
Paradoxes (Thanks to Wikipedia!)
"If this sentence is true, then Santa Claus exists."
Without necessarily believing that Santa Claus exists, or that the sentence is true, it seems we should agree that if the sentence is true, then Santa Claus exists. But then this means the sentence is true. So Santa Claus does exist. Furthermore we could substitute any claim at all for "Santa Claus exists". This is Curry's paradox.

Exception paradox: if every rule has an exception, then there must be an exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
Variation: The only rule is that there are no rules.

"Practice moderation in all things. Including moderation."

Paradox of the Court: A law student agrees to pay his teacher after winning his first case. The teacher then sues the student (who has not yet won a case) for payment.

Friendship Paradox
The friendship paradox is the phenomenon first observed by the sociologist Scott L. Feld in 1991 that, for almost everyone, a person's friends have on average more friends than they do – and vice versa.  In spite of its apparently paradoxical nature, the phenomenon is real, and can be explained as a consequence of the general mathematical properties of social network graphs. However, it may also be the cause of a number of social misconceptions.

 "Is the answer to this question no?"

ASOT.