May 2024 – Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English

If DVD sales continue at the same rate, what can you predict about DVD sales in 2004?
If they’re smart, what change will the owner of Movieland most likely make in 2003?
When should they REALLY have made that change?

4. What is the only actual factual statement in the ad?
5. In this ad, what does the word raves mean?
6. The quote from Mick Slope is included to make you think…?
7. What important piece of information is missing from the ad?

“YEE #5. NDP upper right corner. Nothing on the back.

Original Independence Day (M, D, 4-digit Y):
COPY: 10% of 350 = _________
COPY: 315/350= ______% = ______(letter grade) (Hint: 35)
Well, a) _____ at it again; b) _____ goes another one of c) ______strange cars.
Choose a sentence below, COPY IT, and label each word with its part of speech.
   Homer tripped very awkwardly, and hit his fat head on ~~the~~ door.
   Beetle bravely endured their anger and cruel taunts in silence.
   He was a very scary bear, and we beat a hasty retreat from his lair.

“AlternaYEE, 5/29.”

You have two coins that total 15 cents, but one of them is not a nickel. How is that possible?
What is the volume of dirt in a hole 6 feet long, 8 feet deep, and 4 feet wide?
A farmer had seventeen sheep; all but nine died. How many are left?
You are in a mountain cabin, and it is freezing and dark. The cabin has an old gas lantern, a wood burning stove, and an oil burning heater. You have only one match. Which do you light first?
A fish weighs 10 pounds plus half its weight. How much does it weigh? (Not a trick; just math.)
Write the equation for #5.

“Vocab, 5/29.” Each word used TWICE. graft, infinitesimal, subtle, undulate, poise, resilient

The root of this word is part of the word.___
The root of this word meant “not easily understood.”____
The root of this word meant “wave.”____
The root of this word meant “weight.”____
The roots of this word meant “leaping back.”____
The root of this word meant “stylus.” (This is related to the other meaning of this word.)
Mars has an atmosphere, but it is ______ compared to Earth’s.
Mr. Travis said that the effects of time travel could be serious or _____.
One sign of good mental health is that you are _____ when things don’t go exactly right.
Ballet dancers have to be very ____(ed) and graceful.
The landscaper _____(ed) a new limb onto the peach tree.
The ground _____(ed) during the major earthquake.

More Paradoxes:

Zeno’s paradox: “You will never reach point B from point A as you must always get half-way there, and half of the half, and half of that half, and so on.”

What is this sum? 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + …

Bootstrap paradox: You send information/an object to your past self, but you only have that information/object because in the past, you received it from your future self. This means the information/object was never created, yet still exists.

“A Sound of Thunder.”

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.

“A Sound of Thunder”

Tuesday, 5/28: (Last of) Homework, Yee #4,

May 28, 2024 by mrC

“Advisory” Schedule.

Copy “Homework” into planner for the last time.

(PERIODS 1, 3,5 ONLY) KBARR ! Read 15 minutes, get chart signed DAILY (in notebook), ~~respond 1 page by Friday~~. Three signatures (T,W,Th) due Friday.
A Page due FRIDAY, May 31.
- One piece of paper.
- Sincere.
- On time. NO LATE ONES ACCEPTED.
- “Truly You”

YEE #4. NDP in upper right corner. Title centered.
Copy only the ones that say “Copy.”

First Independence Day (M,D,YYYY):
(Copy.) 10% of 40 = _________
(Copy.) 32/40 = ______% = ______(letter grade)
a) ______ books have been sitting b)_______ for a long time; I hope c)______ coming back soon.
Choose a sentence below, copy it, and label each word with its part of speech.
Homer tripped very awkwardly, and hit his fat head on the door.
Beetle bravely endured their anger and cruel taunts in silence.
He was a very scary bear, and we beat a hasty retreat from his lair.

“AlternaYEE, 5/28.”

How can you perform a subtraction from seven so that the result will be even, but without subtracting any odd numbers?
What is so light that anyone on Earth can hold it, but so heavy that nobody can hold it longer than about 20 minutes?
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?
Where do you leave a “place” by closing the “window”? (On a _____.)
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!

Paradoxes!

“Is the answer to this question no?”

Exception paradox: if every rule has an exception, then there must be an exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
Variation: The only rule is that there are no rules.

“Practice moderation in all things. Including moderation.”

The law of a certain land states that all who wish to enter through the city gates are asked to state their business. Those who reply truthfully (the guards can tell) are allowed to enter and depart in peace, but those who reply falsely are hanged. A traveler approaches the gate, and when asked his business, he replies, “I have come to be hanged.” What should happen to this traveler?

You can actually see backwards in time any day or night. You don’t need any sort of contraption either.

“ASOT, 5/28.”

1. “Crushing certain plants could add up (graftly, infinitesimally, intuitively, shrewdly). A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion.”
2. “The government doesn’t like us here. We have to pay big (subtle, dirigible, graft, savvy) to keep our business.”
3. The green carpet of grass and moss was (subtle, poised, infinitesimal, resilient) and soft.
4. “Maybe Time can’t be changed by us. Or maybe it can be changed only in little (resilient, subtle, graft, poised) ways.”
5. “It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too (graft, intuitive, poised, shrewd) and balanced for its ten tons.”
6. “In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and (poise, subtle, undulate, graft), even while the monster itself did not move.
7. Based on the above quotes from the story, “A Sound of Thunder”, what do you think the story might be about?
8. If you could go time travel, would you go forward or backward? Why?
9. If you could change something in the Past, what would it be, and why?

“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury