English Ten period 6

Finish reading The Cold Equations. You may visit the link to the audio here: The Cold Equations Online

English Ten period 2

1. Continue Reading your Independent Novel. Make three journal entries by Tuesday. If you did not receive your journal, then your journals are due on Wednesday, so you still should use paper, and fold it in half and respond. You can pick up your journal on Monday.

English Ten period 2

1. Carefully use your smartphone or your Chromebook or a traditional dictionary to define each of the vocabulary words for The Cold Equations. Bring the short story and the vocabulary tomorrow.

English Ten period 6 The Cold Equations

Directions: Carefully answer the following questions; re-reading parts of the story if necessary.  Please do not read ahead :) 
1. What ironic surprise awaits the EDS pilot about the stowaway? How does this surprise complicate the decision that the EDS pilot must make? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
2. Why do you think the narrator provides us with a description of what the stowaway looks like? What is this supposed to do for us as readers?
3. How can we tell that the EDS does not want to follow the rules? What does he do?
4. What does the stowaway think the punishment will be for breaking the rule?
5. Please use your vocabulary sheet to look up definitions of the words: increments; recoiled; paramount; annihilate; irrevocable; and or immutable. Definitions should be short.  Include a sentence, using The Cold Equations, if possible.

English Ten period 2

1. Finish SOAPS for Article of the Week + Academic Summary based on your Article of the Week.