Wednesday, 11/16/11
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1 [but the door is not opened], and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

Warm Up (8). Copy. * = spelling  ** = vocabulary

  1. * "again loosen" = ___
  2. * "beneath (less than) judge" = ___
  3. * "into cut thing" = ___
  4. * "breakable" =___
  5. * (2) "judgment thing" =
  6. ** obvious : subtle :: infinite : ______
  7. ** courage : bravery :: contradiction : _____

 
 

Check IRW p372-373. (5p)
Quiz. (7p)  Bonus: What does the CC button do?

  1. What is the label of the key you would press first to make the Setup menu appear on the screen?  a) TIMER  b) MENU  c) SELECT  d) ENTER  e) TV
  2. Once you're at the Setup menu, what is the label for the key you would press to get to the other menus, such as Timer Setup? (Use the diagram!) a) TIMER  b) MENU  c) SELECT  d) ENTER  e) TV
  3. What key would you press to get back to watching The Simpsons when you're done setting the timer?  (Use the diagram.)  a) TIMER  b) MENU  c) SELECT  d) ENTER  e) TV
  4. Which is the answer to #4 on p 372?  a) 1  b) 2  c) 3  d) 4  e) NOTA
  5. The warning says that the timer will only work if you have already set the TV clock.  a) True  b) False
  6. Which of these words should you NOT have circled in response to #1 on p372?  a) Quit.  b) Press  c) Select  d) Repeat  e) You should have circled all of them.
  7. Which of these numbers had multiple steps?  a) 1  b) 2  c) 3  d) 5  e) they all had multiple steps.

 
 
 

Go over vocabulary homework. There were two issues: a) No 10A: subliminal  b) No sentence for expendable. Everybody gets a +1 on Friday
Vocabulary Pretest.

  1. The gardener ______(ed) a new limb onto the ailing tree.  a) resilient  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
  2. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered _________.  a) infinitesimal  b) paradox  c) expendable  d) resilient  e) undulated
  3. The smells ________(ing) from the kitchen were very tempting.   a) infinitesimal  b) paradox  c) poised  d) graft  e) emanate
  4. He tried to be very ________ and calm when he met his girlfriend's parents.  a) finicky  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
  5. "Crushing certain plants could add up ___________(ly). A little, tiny error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion."  a) finicky  b) poised  c) emanate  d) infinitesimal  e) undulate
  6. "The government doesn’t like us here. We have to pay big ____ to keep our business."  a) graft  b) paradox  c) resilience  d) infinitesimal  e) undulate
  7. The green carpet of grass and moss was ______ and soft.   a) finicky  b) poised  c) resilient  d) resilience  e) undulate
  8. "It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too _____ and balanced for its ten tons."   a) expendable  b) poised  c) infinitesimal  d) graft  e) undulate
  9. "In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and _______..."  a) emanate  b) poised  c) resilient  d) paradox  e) undulate
  10. "That'd be a _____. Time doesn't permit that sort of a mess--a man meeting himself."   a) graft  b) infinitesimal  c) resilient  d) paradox  e) emanation
  11. Mrs. Delmartini is very _______ about grammar. You had better proofread every paper closely in 8th grade.   a) emanate  b) poised  c) finicky  d) paradox  e) undulate
  12. "And the caveman, please note, is not just any _________ man...He is an entire future nation."  a) finicky  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
  13. 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) resilient  e) expendable

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"ASoT"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Door 1  Door 2  Door 3  result if switching  result if staying 
Car Goat Goat Goat Car
Goat Car Goat Car Goat
Goat Goat Car Car Goat