Monday, 11/15/10 - Late Start Schedule.
Copy homework into assignment book.
Go over quiz from Wednesday.

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.)


"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

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

Monday, 11/15/10 -- Eighth Grade - Late Start Schedule

Copy homework into assignment book.
Warm Up. (11) Capitalization. For each: Write the word(s) that need to be capitalized. If nothing need capitalizing, write "correct as is."

  1. In 1794, chief justice jay traveled to England and negotiated a treaty with the english government.
  2. In norse mythology, the god odin is ruler over the other gods, and his son is Thor.
  3. I. drama

    4.     a. elements of drama
            1. setting
  4. "I like," Luther commented, "chunky, rather than creamy, peanut butter."
  5. "Watch out!" yelled the mine inspector. "the cable has snapped!"
Go over "quiz" from Friday.

New Novel.

What do you know about Hitler and the Holocaust?

Maus by Art Spiegelman. Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1992. It took him 13 years.

Maus Log: Sort of like KBAR Responding for in-class reading.
5 minute write - 5 points each - Checked Friday w/KBAR.

Maus Log I - 11/15/10
a) Read the first two pages:

b) Why do you think the drawings so simple and not more realistic? Why cats and mice?

Iconic.

Aloud. Chapter One. Drama style with parts.

After-- Maus Log II.
Response.

Valentino, gefilte fish,  Czestochowa, Poland, Sosnowiec, Auschwitz