Wednesday, 5/4: HD, Vocab, “Flying Machine,” “The Earth Men”

Checking Show Me You Know sentences.
Bonus Question for extra credit: Which of the four main types of conflict is not present in The Giver? (BOOK version!)   a) man v himself   b) man v man  c) man v nature  d) man v society  e) It has them all.  (Be careful!)


“Husker Du, 5/4.” Period 1.
saw, pragmatic, pacify, iconic, aspiring, skinflint, volatile, diminutive, dilemma

  1. The swastika is a(n) ________symbol of evil.
  2. The amount of work required in an Honors class can be quite _______.
  3. The word anthropomorphic means ______   ______
  4. What did Vladek’s father do to try to keep him out of the army?  a) Hid him.  b) Made him break a leg.  c) Starved him  d) Made him leave the country.  e) NOTA
  5. As a soldier, Vladek fights in one battle. What does he do?  a) gets in trouble for having cold gun. b) gets in trouble for having warm gun. c) shoots a “tree.” d) gets captured. e) all of these.
  6. How does the German guard know Vladek isn’t used to physical labor?  a) Vladek complains.  b) Vladek’s hands.  c) Vladek’s clothes.  d) The amount
    of money Vladek was carrying.  e) NOTA

“Husker Du, 5/4.” Period 3.
approach, conduct, sanction, allegory, aspect, cache, caricature, promote, contrast, complex

  1. The essay prompt asked you to compare and ______ the two characters.
  2. They _______(ed) the new web site with ads on tv.
  3. Which one is the allegory?  a) Mickey Mouse acting like a human.  b) You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.  c) “The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg”  d) He slept like a rock.  e) Using mice and cats to represent Nazis and Jews in MAUS.  f) B and D.
  4. Words like  although, because, since, and if at the beginning of a clause make that clause _____.  a) dependent  b) independent  c) a sentence  d) compound  e) a fragment  f) NOTA
  5. The prefix of this word means between.  _____     a) mesmerize  b) intercede  c) subjugate  d) resolute  e) NOTA
  6. Which cannot be used as a verb? a) wallow  b) defray  c) mesmerize  d) pandemonium  e) quarantine

“Husker Du, 5/4.” Period 4.

  1. “He looked like I felt when I saw that boy doubled up and still in the moonlight.”  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) simile  d) irony  e) NOTA
  2. The subject of an imperative sentence is always ____.  a) they  b) I  c) that guy  d) it  e) NOTA
  3. A sentence like you might find in an encyclopedia entry would be called a(n) ____ sentence.  a) declarative  b) exclamatory  c) imperative  d) interrogative
  4. An exclamatory sentence must contain an interjection such as wow, OMG, or oh. a) True  b) False
  5. Who said? “Ponyboy…you’re not like the rest of us and don’t try to be.”  a) Dally.  b) Steve.  c) Darry.  d) Soda.  e) Two-Bit.
  6. Why is Two-Bit relieved when he sees Pony picking up the broken glass?

“Husker Du, 5/4.” Period 5.
intrigue, benevolent, apprehensive, wheedle, sift, transgression, aghast, ebb, enhance, supplementary

  1. I found your story ______(ing), but ultimately unbelievable. 
  2. “Why don’t you get a job?”   asked Steve.  “What?” Two-Bit was ______ “And ruin my rep?”
  3. In his classroom, the least ____ is met with serious consequences.
  4. Ponyboy was ______ about appearing in juvenile court.
  5. The principal had to ____ through all the conflicting stories to get at the truth.
  6. The fan ____(ed) her way into the sold-out concert by flirting with the security guard.

 

“Vocabulary, 5/4.”
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  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. He seemed smart, even though most of the facts he knew were rather ________.
  6. He pinched her arm, a little bit with _____(ity), and a little bit with meanness, to get her to pay attention.
  7. Why do we have to go through all this ________ just to add on to our house?
  8. somber : jovial :: humility : _______
  9. “…masks that smiled or masks that frowned, according to the owners’ _________.”
  10. An architect should be good at visualizing ______ concepts.

 

“The Flying Machine.” For 1-9, write the CAPITAL letter.

  1. The Flying One understands why the Emperor is killing him.  a) True  b) False
  2. The Emperor enjoys having the Flying One killed.   a) True  b) False
  3. The mechanical garden that the Emperor “dreamt to being” represents…  a) how the Emperor is as skillful in his own way as the flying man.  b) the fragility and beauty of the Emperor’s kingdom.  c) how China must look from the sky.  d) all of the above.  e)  none of the above.
  4. The Emperor has the Flying One killed because… a) he thinks he will drops stones on the Great Wall.  b) he thinks that the man has an evil heart. c) he fears that someone will use the man’s invention for evil. d) he is jealous of his inventiveness.  e) none of the above.
  5. On page 247, when the Emperor says that it is “well for her” that the Flying One’s wife is asleep, what does he mean?  a) She won’t have to see her husband killed  b) She won’t be mad at the Emperor.  c) It won’t hurt when he has her killed  d) She will get a large settlement.  e) NOTA
  6. The Emperor is really afraid of… a) inventiveness.  b) the future.  c) the Flying One.  d) flying machines.  e) NOTA
  7. Which of the following groups of words best describe the theme of the story? a) Strength, pain, joy. b) Foolishness, anger, endurance. c) Communication, friendship, honesty. d) Fear, frustration, bewilderment.
  8. “The butterfly now touches the earth. And suddenly…a clumsy worm.” (p246) The Servant is using a _________ to describe the Flying One and his apparatus.  a) simile  b) flashback  c) foreshadowing  d) metaphor  e) NOTA
  9. “…The Flying One enters, proud of his feat, proud of his equipments, which he brandishes…”  (p246) The word brandishes as it is used here, most nearly means…  a) drops.  b) shows off.  c) tosses away.  d) puts away.   e) points with.
  10. “The unmarked grave is dug where Time, some little while, must sleep to wake again some other year.” (p251) The Emperor is speaking metaphorically, and most likely means…
  11. There are several places where the author foreshadows that the Emperor is worried about the Flying One’s feat. Quote one from page 246 or before.
  12. Explain the Servant’s comparison in #8.

 

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

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

What does telepathy literally mean? What would having true telepathy be like?

“The Earth Men” p16.