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5th Day Review

You may not know the alphabet from aardvark to zymurgy, but you can certainly cope* with analogous to susceptible.

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Wordsearch 23

Using the clues listed below, fill in each blank in the following story with one of the new words you learned this week.

Microsociety-An Antidote for School Boredom

Money, taxes, employment, legislationthese are topics that we associate with the adult world. George Richmond, a

Yale graduate who became a __________ in the New York City school system, felt that elementary school youngsters could also be interested, even excited, about such issues. He experimented in his own classes with the Microsociety in which basic instruction takes place and is reinforced as pupils operate their own businesses, pass laws, live within the parameters of a constitution that they drafted, seek redress within their own judicial system, buy and sell real estate, and so on.

Richmond's book on the Microsociety came to the attention of the school board in Lowell, Massachusetts, and their

members decided to give it a try in 1981. In much less than a __________ the results were quite remarkable: students exceeded the norm in reading and math; 8th graders passed college level exams; school attendance went up to 96%; and the dropout rate took a nosedive in Lowell.

In Microsociety's __________ classes, mornings are given over to the traditional curriculum. In the afternoon,

the students apply what they learned in activities that run the __________ from keeping double entry books, doing financial audits, running a bank, and conducting court sessions to engaging in light manufacture that leads to retail and wholesale commerce.

Other __________ school systems have since adopted George Richmond's innovative ideas. "Microsociety," said a Yonkers, New York principal, "gets kids to role-play life!"

A Time Magazine reporter was much impressed with Microsociety's results: "Such an approach would go a long way toward making U.S. public schools a cradle of national renewal."

Clues

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24th Week

1st Day

New Words

fet′ ish

Primitive Magic

In the course of their studies of other cultures, anthropologists have reported numerous customs and practices that seem bizarre to the average American. Many primitive people believe that certain inanimate objects have a will of their own and possess some magical powers. These fetishes may be simple things like a particular feather of a bird or a unique pebble. The fetish might have derived its power, according to members of some tribes, from a god who lives within the object and has changed it into a thing of magic. Fetishes need not only be natural objects, however. An artifact such as a sculpture or carving is also believed to possess supernatural powers.

Sample Sentences

Now use your new words in the following sentences.

1.Stones are __________ objects that have no life of their own.

2.It has been suggested that the man who builds a better mousetrap will find the world beating a path to his door to possess this

__________.

3.The explorers saw the golden statue and thought of how much money it would bring them. But their lives would be in danger if they moved it because it was a powerful __________ to the natives.

4.Margaret Mead, the famous __________, fascinated thousands of readers with her studies of South Seas islanders.

5.It would be rather __________ for a young man to come to school wearing a dress.

Definitions

If you have studied the reading selection and the sample sentences, now try your hand at matching your new words with their definitions.