4-The+Cold+Equations

=__**Character Tracker: Sam Marsh**__= __Marilyn was adventurous__ when she stowed away in the EDS. __The pilot was being sentimental__ towards Marilyn after he told her the bad news. __Marilyn was ignorant__ to the warnings outside the doors. __The Pilot was trying not to be harsh__ when Marilyn had to die. __Gerry was very understanding__ of the situation and was just glad he could talk to her one last time.

__Three Questions:__
1.What was the pilot's first reaction to the girl? 2.Why didn't he kill her right away? 3. WHy do you think Gerry was so understanding of the situation?

=Vocabulary Builder:= 1) Complex- something made up of many parts that are connected and different- The whole situation and actions the EDS has to take because of Marilyn is very complex and consists of so many parts that are critical to how many people die and how many people live. 2) Acceptance- being content with what you have to take or deal with- When Marilyn finds out she has to die that is the first advice Barton gives to her. After an hour passes by she is still scared but for accepting of her fate and is willing to die. 3) Grim- something forbidden and disturbing- the whole theme of the story is grim. The fact that the universe is based around strict rules is the reason why Marilyn has to serve a death penalty for going against the universe. 4) Galactic- something pertaining to galaxies and the universe- the whole story is set in a galactic environment. Nobody's on earth anymore. 5) Abrupt- something happening sudden and quick- the whole idea of a young teenager girl who has never faced deathly situation like this one would find that her life is going to end sudden and quick. 6) consequences- the result you get after you do something- Marilyn sneaks onto a ship and she becomes a stowaway so she has to face the consequence of death! 7) Hope- a desire for something to happen- Marilyn still has a little hope that before she finally faced the hard truth that she wouldn't see her brother, Greg, or even see earth ever again. Marilyn was going to blow up in space and die. 8) Mischief- troublemaking- This is the perfect word to describe what Marilyn did without knowing. By sneaking onto that ship she caused to many troubles that could have been stoppable if she just waited for her brother. 9) Gravity- a force that attracts mass to earth or even the moon- Gravity plays a major role in the setting and theme because gravity makes up most of the universe and is the reason we are able to walk and live on earth. 10) Terror- the most extreme amount of fear possible- Marilyn was terrified to find out she was going to have to die. The tone set terror in the mood.
 * Patricia-Marie Harley

Qeustions: (Patricia-Marie Harley) 1) Why did Marilyn sneak onto the ship? 2) Compare how the commander approached the situation to the way Barton (EDS polite) approached it. 3) If you were Greg coming from a mission how would you feel to hear that your little sister came to see you but has to die because of it. Would you feel guilty?

Extender - Isabella

 * **A Very Last Moment in Time – Lindsay Lohan (Song)** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy-_ITdGs9c ||
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 * Until she was caught on the EDS, the girl thought she had all the time in the world. Once she found that she was running out of time she was stunned, learning how different the reality was from the illusion she had of the frontier she was going to. ||


 * **Lost in Space – Lighthouse Family (Song)** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrKCeEHcpg ||
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 * The girl who only wished to see her brother finds herself lost in space with no return open. Along the lines of the song, she only wants to talk to her brother before she dies, as she comes to know she must. She is glad to in the end speak to her brother, and does not spend the minutes after talking to him as she could have. ||

//Floating in midair// //Flying across continents, oceans, islands, bays// //Submerged in a pool of solitude//
 * **Spacecraft – Green Peace (poem)** ||
 * //“Motionless like a still bird//

//“Conceiving a new mission// //Visualizing only countries of white clouds sailing behind// //Alien rum seems everything// //Gets acclimatized gradually the air of dignified recognition//

//“A huge rise, a gargantuan descend// //However high man scales// //He will look down sometime, someday// //Either sooner or later.”// ||
 * The pilot and girl play out a frantic search for hope in a spaceship, called an EDS. It takes time for the girl to understand that it is not like the beauty she thought the frontier was, not as in the poem, but is rather a harsh land where she only has a few words of goodbye, far from all clouds or oceans. ||


 * //“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.”// **– Blaise Pascal (Quote)** ||
 * The pilot does not want to send the girl from the EDS, he does all he can to spare her, but he knows that all around him is empty space, with no savior for the girl. She is equally horrified by the complete emptiness, and realizes that life was hard and everything was exactly calculated. ||

//And the last work's done,// //When the bolt lies deep in the door,// //And Fire, our Sun,// //Falls on the dark-lined meadows of the floor;//
 * **Stillness – James Elroy Flecker (Poem)** ||
 * //“When the words rustle no more,//

//“When from the clock's last time to the next chime// //Silence beats his drum,// //And Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time// //Wheeling and whispering come,// //She with the mold of form and he with the loom of rhyme,//

//“Then twittering out in the night my thought-birds flee,// //I am emptied of all my dreams:// //I only hear Earth turning, only see// //Ether's long bankless streams,// //And only know I should drown if you// //Laid not your hand on me.”// ||
 * Time is coming short for the young girl lost in space, the great emptiness she though would spare her until she saw her brother. There was nothing that could be done, no words of comfort that would save her. ||

Questions - Isabella

 * **Level 1** || What is the name of the stowaway on the EDS? ||
 * **Level 2** || Sequence the actions the pilot took in attempts to correct his mission and save the girl. ||
 * **Level 3** || Imagine being in the position of the pilot. What action would you take? ||

The girl who only wished to see her brother finds herself lost in space with no return open. Along the lines of the song, she only wants to talk to her brother before she dies, as she comes to know she must. She is glad to in the end speak to her brother, and does not spend the minutes after talking to him as she could have.