Homework for Monday

Answer the following questions on your handout:
Which paragraph explains why many people are drawn to psychics, cold readers, or mentalists?
Which paragraph explains the purpose of this book?
Which paragraph explains the organization of this book?
What is the purpose of the longest paragraph on page 9?
What is the main idea of the final paragraph of the prologue?

Do not do the other side of the handout concerning vocabulary.

Turn in your science fiction short story report.

Vocabulary

In a notebook or folder, make a list of these vocabulary items.

From the first week

1. analysis (see my example from the previous vocabulary posting)
2. anatomy
3. atom
4. cell
5. dynamics
6. embryo
7. galaxy
8. hydro-
9. immune
10. laser
11. mathematics
12. mineral
13. molecule
14. nuclear
15. organic
16. petro-
17. plasma
18. quantum physics
19. soil
20. solar
21. static
22. taxonomy
23. toxic
24. volcano

From the second week

1. subsequently
2. established
3. genre
4. novella
5. inhuman
6. chilling
7. warn
8. decades

From the third week

1. prediction
2. skeleton
3. conflict
4. paranoid
5. introspection/introspective

From the fourth week onwards

1. disturbed/disturbing (as in "I was disturbed by this story")
2. prologue
3. skim (as in reading)
4. skepticism/skeptic/skeptical
5. psychic
6. neutral
7. clue
8. scan (as in reading)
9. pursue
10. "hope springs eternal"
11. increase
12. decrease
13. to level off
14. pseudo-
15. probability
16. paranormal
17. (printing) press
18. detect
19. prove
20. disprove
21. invisible
22. immortality
23. concentration camp
24. meditation/meditate
25. retrospective
26. altered state of consciousness
27. hypnosis/hypnotize
28. duplicate
29. consciousness
30. hallucination
31. near-death experience
32. compelling
33. dismissed
34. tunnel
35. italics
36. to go out of one's way to (do something)
37. verify
38. witch
    
39. evolution
40. holocaust
41. racism
    

Homework for Monday

Bring Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer to class.
We will start reading this book in class.

Homework for Wednesday

Read pages 15-16.
Answer all questions on the handout concerning those pages.
Be prepared for a vocabulary quiz. I will quiz you on 5-10 words from the list of 37.

Homework for Monday

Read pages 5-13 of "Blood Music" in The Best of the Best Science-Fiction.
Answer the questions concerning pages 5-13 on the handout.
We will discuss the answers on Monday.

Circle or highlight all the science-fiction movies you have seen on the other handout.
I will collect this handout.

Homework for Wednesday

Do the worksheet on biochemistry.
Study for the quiz on biochemistry.

Homework for Monday

Start a vocabulary journal in a notebook for this class.
After each vocabulary item, do the following...
1. Write the closest translation in your first language
2. Write a personal sentence using the vocabulary in English

You should start with the 24 important science vocabulary (analysis-volcano) and continue to the 8 words we studied in the last class (subsequently-decades).

Here are a couple of examples with Russian as a first language.

• Subsequently - Впоследствии, I trained English teachers in Russia and subsequently became an English teacher at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse.
• Analysis - Анализ, As a teacher I have to do a lot of classroom analysis.

Bring the notebook to class as evidence. I will not collect it on Monday. I will only collect the notebook twice, before spring break and before the last day of class. This vocabulary journal is for you to study from as we will have vocabulary quizzes about 4 times a month.