Month: March 2023

Friday, 3/17: Survey, Husker Du, Vocab + Charades, Mars

CHECKING KBARR.

“Warm Up, 3/17.”

  1. How much total time did you spend on h/w last night?
  2. What did you do yesterday between school and bed that wasn’t eating, homework, or travel time? List everything you can remember.
  3. What time did you go to bed, lights out?

“Compound What? 3/17”  Compound Subject, Compound Verb, Compound Both, Compound Sentence, or NOTA?

  1. Jimmy and the llama went to the store to buy hydrogen.
  2. The llama’s house is energy efficient and saves water by recycling it.
  3. The llama ate three hot dogs, went on a walk, and got a cramp.
  4. My friend the llama and I jumped on our bikes and launched off the ramp.
  5. After I fix this issue, I will deal with the llama.
  6. My best friend’s llama went to the dance, and I went with him.
  7. Llamas and many other animals had to run from the war.
  8. The llama posse bailed for Mars because the Earth was too crowded.
  9. After the storm, the llamas emerged from their bunkers.
  10. The llama said he studied for the test, but he didn’t really.

“Vocab, 3/17.”
  

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. The Mad Llamas won the final match and took home the _____(ed) Alpaca Cup!
  6. Pony and Johnny sat in the vacant lot and _____(ed) about a better life.
  7. She _____(ed), from the fur stuck to his clothes, that he owned a llama.
  8. The roots of this word meant “to bind by oath.”
  9. The root of this word meant “speaking out.”
  10. The roots of this word meant “sorrow” or “hostile.”
  11. The root of this word meant “to desire.”
  12. The root of this word meant “offspring.”
  13. The root of this word meant “with good faith.”

VOCAB CHARADES!

  • TWO GUESSES PER WORD! Then it is a fail and adds 10 seconds to your time.
  • NO SOUNDS WHATSOEVER!

“DTW…” (BOB p215)  ANSWER NOT LETTER!

  1. Read paragraph 21 on p217 (BOB). What does the use of the word submerged suggest?  a) The children may drown if they ever go outside.  b) The atmosphere around the house feels heavy and dangerous.  c) The Martians are preparing to attack the house.  d) Mr. B thinks the house is too noisy.  e) Mr. B thinks the kids might be scared of the wind.
  2. What is Harry Bittering worried about losing?  a) his Earth identity.  b) his mind.  c) his life.  d) his family.  e) the war on Earth  f) NOTA
  3. If Harry was going to stay on Mars anyway, why was he so shaken by the news that the rockets were destroyed?  a) He was worried about the people of Earth.  b) He was worried about his family.  c) It sort of took away his feeling of security.  d) They were short of supplies and needed more from Earth.  e) NOTA
  4. When Harry was working in his garden, he felt… a) out of place.  b) peaceful.   c) casual.  d) afraid.  e) overdressed  f) NOTA
  5. What was the first tangible sign Harry got that proved his feelings about Mars were true?  a) The news from Earth about the war.  b) His wife said a Martian word out of the blue.  c) The boy, David, bringing up his thought that there were still Martians.  d) The peach blossoms.  e) NOTA
  6. There are several sentence fragments on p218. Copy one of them.
  7. BONUS. What are all those fragments trying to show about Harry’s state of mind?

 

Read to p225+

Video Fun

Thursday, 3/16: Husker Du, Vocab, BOB

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/reusable-water-bottles-bacteria-toilet-seats-study

Quizzy tomorrow. Kind of a Preview of next week.

 

“Husker Du, 3/16.” a) List Subject/Verb combo for each clause in the sentence. b) Write what was used to connect the clauses.  c) CD or CX?
EXAMPLE: The llama passed the test because he studied. a) llama passed , he studied  b) because  c) CX

  1. The puppies rampaged down the street, and they trampled a llama.
  2. A llama’s house was divided into rooms; the herd used some areas for voodoo rituals.
  3. The llama thought he was OK until he wasn’t.
  4. The llamas shared the work of the group, but the head llama gave the orders.
  5. Because the llama forgot his wallet, he missed the bus

S-V Agreement, 3/16.” Write the appropriate PRESENT TENSE form of an appropriate verb.

  1. Both the llama and his brother ____ working on the rocket.
  2. Each llama ____ his own vegetables.
  3. Everybody ____ that my idea is better.
  4. The llama ____ not need a tune-up.
  5. Your mom’s llama ____ too fast.
  6. Anyone who ____ differently is obviously wrong.
  7. All of you ____ what is about to happen.
  8. This class ____ much smarter than a llama.
  9. The squad of llamas ____  going to Disneyland for cheer competition.
  10. “The Earth Men” ____ the second in the series.

“Vocab, 3/16.”
   

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. I’m _____? Do you even know what that means? (haha)
  5. He was ____(ed) to do all his homework before he watched any tv.
  6. He is a rather ____ liar; he tells so many lies, you can never tell which of his stories is true.
  7. Which word would be most associated with high school junior considering college choices? _____
  8. The Socs always would say the word greaser with ____(ing).
  9. The roots of this word meant “to lead down.”
  10. Which word would be most associated with a backyard bbq? _____
  11. The root of this word meant “to waste time.”
  12. The root of this word meant “drummer.” (LOL)

“DTWAGE” p215. Things to look for:

  1. Read paragraph 21 on p217 (BOB). What does the use of the word submerged suggest?
  2. What is Harry Bittering worried about losing?
  3. If Harry was going to stay on Mars anyway, why was he so shaken by the news that the rockets were destroyed?
  4. What was the first tangible sign Harry got that proved his feelings about Mars were true?

Wednesday, 3/15: Agreement, Debrief Test #24, Vocab, BOB

SMYK’s Due Tomorrow.

Test #25 will Be NEXT THURSDAY.

“HD, 3/15.” Answer, not letter.

  1.  What is the official name for the FANBOYS?
  2. A COMPOUND sentence has at least how many subordinate clauses?
  3. Besides using one of the FANBOYS, what is another way to join independent clauses into a compound sentence?
  4. The predicate is another name for the main _____ in a sentence or clause.
  5. She is a savvy basketball player.  a) adjective  b) not an adjective
  6. The expression “Ignorance is bliss” is a motto.  True or False?

Debrief Test #24. Ugh for everyone except Period 6.

“Agreement, 3/15.” Write the subject and the appropriate form of a verb.

  1. Here ___ the photographs of the llama.
  2. Each llama ____ for the camera.
  3. Where ____ the blonde llamas born?
  4. “Silly Llama Memories” ____ about back and back and back times.
  5. Two hours ____ like a long time to a llama.
  6. The Llama Islands ____ the old name for Hawaii.
  7. The United States ___ full of llamas.
  8. The llama squad ____ not agree with the captain.
  9. According to Emily Dickinson, the majority of people always ____ what is right.
  10. That herd of llamas ____ in a treehouse.

“Vocab, 3/15.” Each word once. No hints. OK to collaborate.
           

BOB, p 210 Activities.

“Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed.” p214-215.

“Why are names so important?” The alternative title of the story was “The Naming of Names”

In 1948, two professors at Harvard University published a study of thirty-three hundred men who had recently graduated, looking at whether their names had any bearing on their academic performance. The men with unusual names, the study found, were more likely to have flunked out or to have exhibited symptoms of psychological neurosis than those with more common names. The Mikes were doing just fine, but the Berriens were having trouble. A rare name, the professors surmised, had a negative psychological effect on its bearer.

Since then, researchers have continued to study the effects of names, and, in the decades after the 1948 study, these findings have been widely reproduced. Some recent research suggests that names can influence choice of profession, where we live, whom we marry, the grades we earn, the stocks we invest in, whether we’re accepted to a school or are hired for a particular job, and the quality of our work in a group setting. Our names can even determine whether we give money to disaster victims: if we share an initial with the name of a hurricane, according to one study, we are far more likely to donate to relief funds after it hits.

 

From The Week.

Do names matter?
To a remarkable degree, they do. Though we don’t choose them, our names are badges bearing information about our class, education level, and ethnic origin — or at least those of our parents. Scientific studies have shown that the world makes different assumptions about a boy named Tyrone than it does about one named Philip, and while those assumptions are often wrong, they can have a considerable influence on the course of a life. A name can even exert unconscious influence over a person’s own choices. Some scientific researchers contend that there are disproportionately large numbers of dentists named Dennis and lawyers named Lauren, and that it’s not purely an accident that Dr. Douglas Hart of Scarsdale, N.Y., chose cardiology or that the Greathouse family of West Virginia runs a real-estate firm. To some degree, this has always been true: The Romans had the expression nomen est omen, or “name is destiny.”

Has the way we name kids changed?
In this country it has. Most families used to give boys names chosen from a repertoire established within a family over generations, and while that was less true for girls, there was a relatively finite range of acceptable names, largely limited to those of saints. But in recent decades, the number of names in circulation has exploded. In 1912, when the most popular names in America were John and Mary, parents of 80 percent of American babies chose from among the 200 most common names. Today less than half of girls and about 60 percent of boys are accorded a top-200 name. One study found that 30 percent of African-American girls born in California during the 1990s were given names they shared with no one else born in the state in the same year.

 

What influences those choices?
The simple answer is taste, but taste is a complex thing. Names come into and fall out of fashion much as clothing styles, musical genres, and haircuts do. None of the top five girls’ names from 1912 — Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret, and Ruth — ranked in the top 40 in 2010, when the leaders were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella, and Ava. The name Wendy surged after the release of the movie and musical Peter Pan in the early 1950s, and Brittany took off in the 1990s with the career of pop star Britney Spears. The popularity of the names Isabella, Jacob, and Cullen in recent years has been linked to characters with those names in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series of vampire novels.

 

 

A Swedish study compared immigrants who had changed their Slavic, Asian, or African names, such as Kovacevic and Mohammed, to more Swedish-sounding, or neutral, ones, like Lindberg and Johnson. The economists Mahmood Arai and Peter Skogman Thoursie, from Stockholm University, found that this kind of name change substantially improved earnings: the immigrants with new names made an average of twenty-six per cent more than those who chose to keep their names.

Start Reading the Story.

 

Monday, 3/12: Homework, Mental Floss, Test #24

Slides Link for Homies: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g-JtgfigP8P9pLA6Kfqop5mEbja_6SZF2VY_U6Wyrns/edit?usp=sharing

Copy Homework  into Planner: The Usual.

  • KBARR ! Read 15 minutes, get chart signed DAILY (in notebook), respond 1 page by Friday. Four signatures (M, T,W,Th) due Friday.
  • Vocabulary due Tuesday and Wednesday.
    • due Tuesday – Definitions in notebook.
    • due Wednesday – Copy and Finish the SMYK’s.

Prep Sheet for Test #24. KBARR: ___/24  SMYK:___/10  Bonuses: Period 6 gets +2 for Vocab Relay. All others get +1.

Mental Floss.

  1. Wacky Wordy: GWETORUSTD (Hint: $)
  2. The cost of making only the maker knows,
    Valueless if bought, but sometimes traded.
    A poor man may give one as easily as a king.
    When one is broken, pain and deceit are assured.
    What am I?
  3. The following clues make a pun on words that start with mis-.
    Example: This young woman could lead the orchestra. (bad behavior) Answer: Misconduct.

    • a) This young woman is in great shape. (an outsider)
    • b) This young woman showed me where to go. (lied to me)
    • c) This young woman knew exactly what I meant. (she didn’t really)

Test #24

Thursday, 3/9: Agreement, Vocab, EMEN, Giver Movie/Book

Tomorrow’s Test: See Below. Preview HERE.

“Agreement, 3/9.”

  1. (S/V for each clause.) The llama and his mom ____ that patience and diligence ____ key to success.
  2. Either the llama or the tree ____ added to the pic after it was taken.
  3. The blonde llama, like the ones in the movie, ___ very rare and valuable.
  4. Some rare llamas ____ smaller llamas inside.
  5. The killer llama, among the largest predators, ____to be as long as twenty-seven feet.
  6. Sheila, but not her brother, ____ working tomorrow.
  7. (S/V for each clause.) The Albino Llama ___ many mysteries which ____unsolved to this day
  8. _____ Jimmy and his mom want to come with us to the llama party?
  9. (S/V for each clause.) Jimmy, who ___ two funny names, ____ he studies, but I don’t believe him.

 

“Vocab, 3/9.” Lots of repeats.

  1. _____
  2. _____ (Not lineage)
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. The wind made the old newspapers _____ across the empty streets.
  6. Some people say that it is only a ______that there is life after death…
  7. …They think that we are being _____ to think that we are anything but worm food…
  8. …But someone who is deeply religious might say that kind of talk is ______.
  9. There are the _____(s) of four presidents on Mount Rushmore.
  10. Because of the Martian’s telepathy, the Earth men were under the _______ that their loved ones had come back to life.
  11. The root of this word is a part of the word itself. _____
  12. The root of this word meant “sight.” _____
  13. The root of this word was Greek for “dog” or “hound.”

Vocab Relay!

Poem #435  by Emily DickinsonMuch Madness is divinest Sense–
To a discerning Eye–
Much Sense–the starkest Madness–
‘Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail–
Assent–and you are sane–
Demur–you’re straightway dangerous–
And handled with a Chain–		 Madness = insanity
divinest = most perfect, the best
discerning = looking  very carefully/showing good judgement
starkest = most obvious
All = everything
prevail = decides/wins
assent = say yes
demur = say no

“EMEN, 3/9.” Answer not letter.

  1. What does the captain say that finally makes Mr. Aaa stop and listen to him?
  2. What is it the Earth men want from the Martians?
  3. Even though it doesn’t really have anything to do with the story, Ray Bradbury spends time describing a mechanical spider toy that the little girl plays with. What’s the point? (Bonus for 2)
  4. It turns out that the job a Martian has to have to welcome Earth men is…
  5.  “A shot rang out. Mr. Xxx fell.”  a) exposition  b) rising action  c) inciting incident  d) rising action  e) climax  f) falling action  g) resolution
  6. “When the town people found the rocket at sunset, they wondered what it was. (p30) a) exposition  b) rising action  c) inciting incident  d) rising action  e) climax  f) falling action  g) resolution
  7. “That night it rained all night. The next day was fair and warm.”  (p31)  a) exposition  b) rising action  c) inciting incident  d) rising action  e) climax  f) falling action  g) resolution
  8. Why does the story end with a “weather report”?

Giver Movie Ending.

  • Which scenes from the movie would you use for the trailer? Why?
  • What if we were making a “book trailer”? Would you use the same scenes? What would be different?

“Giver, 3/9.”

  • Book or Movie? 3 Reasons why + Example for each.