Tuesday, 2/7/12
Warm Up 2/7/12. In notebook.
  1. Pluralize: a) family  b) tomato  c) mother-in-law  d) video  e) Jones f) monkey
  2. Make them possessive:  a) family  b) James c) it  d) child  e) wish
  3. Make them plural AND possessive:  a) hero  b) man  c) fish


Writing Exercise 2/7/12. Separate Sheet. Counts for 600 words which is due tomorrow.
Write for 6 minutes (try to fill a page) about one topic...without using ANY of these words:
any form of the word be (am, is are, was, were),
any form of the word go (went, gone, going),
any form of the word have (has, had, having),
any form of the word get (got, getting, gotten),
any form of the word do (did, done, etc.).
 



Academic Words VII-II. Copy.
innovate, prohibit, submit, differentiate, dispose, contrary, confirm, phenomenon, simulate, hierarchy, successor
  1. She wasn't sure of the social ___________ at her new school... {she could never remember which groups were supposedly cooler than others.} 
  2. {One of the reasons that you can't eat outside any more is that} you seem unable to ________ of your trash properly.
  3. {The president nominates a person to the Supreme Court,} but the Senate has to _________ his choice. 
  4. Reports of UFOs were a very common __________ in the 1950's.
  5. Everybody agreed that his _______(ive) plan was the simplest, {and yet the cleverest,} of all.
  6. San Luis Obispo was the first city to _________ smoking indoors {in bars and restaurants.} 
  7. To _____ partial weightlessness, astronauts often train underwater.

 
 
 
 
 

Begin Charlotte Doyle.
Books.

Partner up. Check your diagrams against the ones on p220-221. Use red pens. Count how many correct.


 Are there any jobs that should be exclusively for men or for women? Why/not? (Not counting professional sports.)
 
 
 
 

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