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January 25, 2022 – Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English
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Day: January 25, 2022

Tuesday, 1/25: Vocab, Mars, The Earth Men

 

 

Do you really know how to be absent in here?  Let’s find out!

How to Be Absent. (Again… sigh.)

  1. Check the website: https://middleschool.mrcoward.com. DO NOT CLICK THE HOMEWORK LINK!
  2. Scroll down until you see the CALENDAR on the right side.
  3. CLICK THE DAY(S) YOU WERE ABSENT.
  4. Do exactly what we did that day IN YOUR NOTEBOOK.
  5. Repeat for any other days you missed.
  6. If there is anything you can’t do or don’t understand, SEND ME AN EMAIL that day.
  7. YOU ONLY NEED TO CLICK THE HOMEWORK LINK that appears on MONDAY’s classwork. If you weren’t absent on Monday, you (SHOULD) already have the homework in your planner.

“Vocab, 1/25.”

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. Cell phone use in class is sure to ____ Mr. Coward, and nobody wants that.
  5. Santa Claus, by definition, has a very jolly ________.
  6. The gossip magazine published all the _____ details of the crime, shocking everyone.
  7. The atmosphere at the party was very ____ and lively.
  8. After he failed the test, he ____(ed) about what might have happened if he had actually studied.
  9. The DMV is infamous for all the ______ you have to go through to register a car. (Bonus: What does infamous mean?)
  10. My smoothie was a _______ of lots of things I found in the refrigerator.
  11. Everybody tried to blame the greasers for the problems in the cafeteria, but they had a(n) _____; they were down at the corner store.
  12. I was _____(ed) when I heard the bad news about my grade.
  13. She was _____ to report the crime because it was her friend who committed it.

MARS!

Should we try to land people on MARS? Why/Not?

  • 21 month round trip
  • solar radiation
  • -50 avg. temp
  • 98% CO2 atmosphere
  • 38% of our gravity
  • zero life or water; lots of dust and rocks

 

“The Earth Men” from The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

What happens (historically) when two very different cultures meet?

What if an alien knocked on your door?

Discuss:
What does telepathy literally mean? ___ ___. (Up to +2!)
What do you think having true telepathy would be like?

Let’s go to Mars.

Link to story for absentees: The Martian Chronicles. The story begins on page 22.

We will probably get about 3-4 pages in today.