Wednesday, November 5, 2014

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 45

 

·         WARMUP: Number a paper 1 – 9 and answer the following fill-in-blank (make your best guesses):

o   The average home has at least ____1_______ TV sets and the average American watches ____2_____ hours of TV every day which is over _____3_______ over the course of one’s lifetime sitting in front of the tube.

o   It takes ______4________ cows to feed humans in the United States (annually). Each human (in the U.S.) consumes ___5____ pints of milk a week or ____6_____ pints a month or ____7_____ pints a year. We will each consume ___8___ pints of milk per person per lifetime.

o   But milk is only a tiny part of our diet. As a nation, we eat a total of ___9___ pounds of food every day.

§  Reviewed the answers

·         Find and pickup 5 things off the carpet.

·         Number your paper 1 – 11…make 3 columns…without looking at your prefix sheet, fill in the 3 columns from memory.

o   When done, check your sheet for answers.

 

Began Human Footprint unit DAY1 - Watched half of documentary film today Human Footprint – approx. 55 minutes - http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/human_footprint

 

As you watch the film:

1. Write down 4 direct quotations (not statistics) from the film – that you will later use in your paper.
2. Write down 4 examples (statistics) from the film that show how every human being impacts the earth.

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Study for Friday’s Prefix test (11 prefixes from “30-15-10” list) = dict ………therm