Day: May 28, 2024

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

“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.”

  1. First Independence Day (M,D,YYYY):
  2. (Copy.) 10% of 40 = _________
  3. (Copy.) 32/40 = ______% = ______(letter grade)
  4. a) ______ books have been sitting b)_______ for a long time; I hope c)______ coming back soon.
  5. 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.”

  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. Where do you leave a “place” by closing the “window”?  (On a _____.)
  5. 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

  • “I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”
  • “Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”

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Read Aloud.