Wednesday, 3/17/10 -- Warm
Up. Copy. Use your spelling pretest and your
vocabulary sheet to help you.
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realistic : imaginary :: environmental
: ________
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primary : secondary :: _________
: final
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grocery : store :: fence : ________
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complicated : elementary :: social
: ________
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fakery : forgery :: bribery : __________
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The gardener ______(ed) a new limb
onto the ailing tree.
Prepositional Phrases V.
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I like to ride my bike to
school. a) adjective prepositional phrase
b) adverb prepositional phrase c) not a prepositional phrase
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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
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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
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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
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Our platypus has been running behind
schedule until now. a) adjective prepositional phrase
b) adverb prepositional phrase c) not a prepositional phrase
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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
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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
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Some of the disagreements between
ducks are beside the point. a) adjective prepositional
phrase b) adverb prepositional phrase c) not a prepositional
phrase
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The clown in the clown car
drove into a tree. a) adjective prepositional phrase b)
adverb prepositional phrase c) not a prepositional phrase
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The clown in the clown car drove
into a tree. a) 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.
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He is not a(n) ________ member
of the team; we need his help desperately. a) aurora b) poised
c) emanate d) expendable e) subliminal
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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
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When we moved, we got rid of everything
that we considered _________. a) infinitesimal b) paradox
c) expendable d) resilient e) subliminal
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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
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There is a lot of ___________ advertising
in movies. They call it "product placement." a) infinitesimal b)
poised c) emanate d) correlate e) subliminal
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A trampoline is, by definition,
___________. a) infinitesimal b) poised c) subtle d)
resilient e) expendable
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"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
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There is a direct ___________(ion)
between education and income. a) poise b) paradox c)
aurora d) correlate e) graft
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He tried to be very ________ and
calm when he met his girlfriend's parents. a) correlate b) poised
c) emanate d) expendable e) graft
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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
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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
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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.