Thursday, 5/25: YEE #4, Vocab + Relay, “A Sound of Thunder,” Homer

Tomorrow’s Test: Vocab, ASoT, Nutrition, e e cummings. Preview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hdth2DF-XjWoqHYnO-x0gxNkJ1rTqgxSuAHFjSC5Y2g/edit?usp=sharing


YEE #4.

“Alternayee, 5/25.” Anagrams. Outsiders, Midwife’s Apprentice, The Giver, Maus. (Not in that order.)

  1. Ye Mom Fierce Rover
  2. Mini Deaf Jew
  3. Apricot Do Ups
  4. Nine Pajama Legs

  1. If rentals continue at the same rate, what can you predict about DVD rentals in 2004?
  2. (2) What should the owner of Movieland do in 2003?  Why?
  3. If we extend the graph backwards and assume that the growth in sales has been steady, when can we say DVD rental probably began?

 


“Vocab, 5/25.”
 

  1. _____(ing) like a model was a fad in the ’90s.
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. Zoltan was rather ____ when he messed up the easy question in front of the whole class.
  5. He _____(ed) around the door as people left the class, hoping to hear how the test was.
  6. The escape room was like a ______ with a lot of false passages.
  7. Even though it was just ______, the rumor quickly spread anyway
  8. Mardis Gras floats are known for being very _____.
  9. His handwriting is so bad it is difficult to (de)______.
  10. Vladek kept getting angry at Artie because he didn’t care if the bank records didn’t ____ exactly.
  11. Vladek promised Anja from the beginning to never _____her.
  12. She was too _____ to resent all the things others had said to her.
  13. (2) His _____ facial expression and silent nature made him a _____ to everyone. Nobody really knew him at all.

 


ASoT.    “I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”   -Ray Bradbury

Link to Story for those at home:  http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.pdf

The Simpsons “Time and Punishment” References:

  • Crime and Punishment
  • A Sound of Thunder
  • Jurassic Park
  • 1984
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle
  • Terminator 2
  • The Flintstones
  • Carlos Casteneda