Hope you've had a good spring weekend!  I spent my Sunday in bed wearing something that looks like a cross between a sleeping bag, a comforter, and a hoodie.  Long story short, I won't be in class on Monday at least.  For now, we will push Wordwright to Tuesday.  I will try to post additional TMC chapter questions.  For Honors classes, the case study for this week's vocab essay is Case #8: De-Extinction. I know the case focuses on species, but think bigger than that too, in conjunction with TMC and the TED talk I posted last week.

Plan on Wordwright 3 for Monday, 1/28.  It might get shifted to Tuesday, but planning on Monday.

There are some MC guiding questions in previous posts and on GClass. 

We'll try to get to it in class, but this 5 minute TED Talk about not using Mars as a "backup" planet offers some interesting perspective on the concept.

Questions for the first two chapters are on GClass

MC study questions:

August 1999: The Summer Night

What is starting to happen to more and more Martians and why does it alarm them?
What is this occurrence a likely foreshadowing of?

August 1999: The Earth Men
The men claim to be the second expedition but they don't know what happened to the first one.  What happened?

Why are the men so upset by the greeting they receive on Mars?  Indirectly, what does Bradbury seem to be criticizing about humans?

By having the Martians not care/not believe the Earthlings' stories, what "hard truth" does Bradbury propose even if there are other life forms besides on Earth?

There are two entries on Google Classroom that will help you navigate the first two chapters of The Martian Chronicles as well as prepare for how we will address perspective in looking at it.

Wordwright #3 will be taken next week, most likely Monday or Tuesday.  I will decide and confirm this week.  Below you will find the word list for Wordwright 3.  Don't spend too much time trying to memorize a bunch of words you don't know. 

lapse, metabolic, disfigured, entourage, egregious, pristine, subtext, fathom (v), slather, eccentricity, accessory, ingest, scrutiny, indispensability, plastique, cul-de-sace, nostalgic, ambience, incite, repel, adhere, recur, aplomb, nubile, immaculate, genteel, proboscis, kaffeeklatsche, differentiate, flippant, colloquial, satiric, angst, alliterative, juxtaposition, hyperbolic, tone, forthright, pedantic, metaphor, diction, dysfunctional, epithet, flout, understatement, irony, syntactic parallelism, oratorical, rhetorical, refrain (n), homogeneous, taciturn, diction, duplicitous

Begin "The Martian Chronicles" in class.  All classes.  We will be reading in class exclusively, unless you acquire your own copy.