Day: January 20, 2022

Thursday, 1/20: End of Semester, Sound of Thunder, Time and Punishment

Interviews with Our Elders 2022

Half Done! Have a great 3-day weekend!

COMMON NAME: Tyrannosaurus rex
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Tyrannosaurus rex
DIET: Carnivore
SIZE: 40 feet long and 12 feet tall
WEIGHT: Between 5.5 and eight tons
SIZE RELATIVE TO A BUS:
This fierce carnivore was optimally built for crunching through its meals, with a stiff skull that allowed it to channel all the force of its muscles into one bite—delivering up to six tons of pressure. This dinosaur used its 60 serrated teeth, each about eight inches long, to pierce and grip flesh, throwing prey into the air and swallowing it whole.
  • Finish Reading “A Sound of Thunder.”
  • Mental Floss.  On back of Quiz sheet. (See below.)
    1. How can you perform a subtraction from seven so that the result will be even, but without subtracting any odd numbers?
    2. What is so light that anyone on Earth can hold it, but so heavy that nobody can hold it longer than about 20 minutes?
    3. At noon, you look at the old-school clock in your bedroom. The big hand is on the five and the little hand is in between the three and the four. What time is it?
    4. Two fathers and two sons own 21 horses between them. Explain how it is possible to evenly divide the herd among them. (NO, you don’t get to cut up any horses!)
    5. Where do you leave a “place” by closing the “window”?  (On a _____.)
    6. In a small town in the country, a male cow swallowed an explosive device. The town newspaper had a front page story about it.   Which one-word headline did they use?
      * Shocking!  * How?  * Dangerous!  * Terrifying!
      * Abominable!  * What?  * Horrible! 
  • Quiz. (15p) Use a separate sheet of paper. Letter answers OK.
    Name, date and period (3p)
    Title = “Last Quiz” (1p)

    1. A paradox is… a) two doctors.  b) a time travel thing  c) a contradiction  d) a contraption  e) NOTA
    2. Eckels’s attitude before they spotted the T-Rex was… a) serious. b) worried about danger. c) overconfident. d) NOTA
    3. Eckels runs off the path because… a) he panics.  b) he doesn’t believe Travis.  c) he doesn’t care.  d) it’s fun.  e) he wants to change the future.
    4. The part of the story where Eckels steps off the Path.   a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax  e) resolution  f) falling action
    5. The man behind the desk thinks that the right man won the election. a) True  b) False (NO QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ONE.)
    6. Which of these things could the phrase “a sound of thunder” reasonably represent?  a) The sound of the T-Rex approaching.  b) The effects of their actions on the future.  c) The sound of the guns.  d) All of the above.  e) NOTA
    7. When Travis shoot Eckels.  a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax  e) resolution  f) falling action
    8. The real theme of “ASoT” is probably…  a) don’t mess with time.  b) don’t try to change the past.  c) small actions can lead to huge consequences.  d) don’t kill butterflies.  e) NOTA
    9. The prefix eu- means… a) nice  b) well  c) death  d) bad  e) good  f) NOTA
    10. What is most likely the main theme of “Old Glory”?  a) That the right to a fair trial is important.  b) That freedom of speech is important.  c) That if people don’t stand up for their rights, those rights might be taken away.  d) That you shouldn’t burn flags.  e) That country is more important than family.  f) NOTA
    11. A “Civic Responsibility” class would probably be about…  a) ancient civilizations.  b) how to be a responsible student.  c) Honda Civic automobile repair.  d) the future.  e) lawyers  f) NOTA
  • “Time and Punishment.”