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Friday is a day off, remember? So…
Tomorrow’s Test: Vocabulary Review (bring your pink sheet), AANV Review, MWA.

“Vocabulary Review, 11/4.” (12p)

1. _____
2. “I’m not _____. I’m ignoring you.”
3. _____
4. (2) _____ and _____
5. “Don’t blame me. I don’t make the laws, I just ____ them.” (+ bonus)
6. Even though I was nervous, I tried to act cool and ______.
7. “You’re hungry?” he said _____(ly), “I’m the one who hasn’t eaten all day!”
8. Even after I read the poem three times, the meaning still ______(ed) me.
9. Since I studied, I _____(ed) myself quite well on the test.
10. (2) It is sometimes fun to ___ a little brother or sister’s lack of _____
    

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11. The root cred, as in incredulous and incredible, means to _______.

Vocabulary Review Relay! I picked 11 words from the lists.

New Format for Fairness: The Lineup.

“AANV Review, 10/4.” Copy each word and ID it as adj, adv, n, v, or NOTA.
Silly Homer tripped very awkwardly, hit his big, fat head on the door with a thunk, and loudly yelled, “D’oh!”

1. silly
2. tripped
3. very
4. awkwardly
5. big
6. thunk
7. loudly
8. yelled
9. d’oh

The Midwife’s Apprentice

Do an SWBS sentence for any part of MWA so far:
_____ wanted… but…  so…

More Medieval Knowledge?

Alyce…

“Vocabulary Review, 11/3.” If you can’t come up with the correct vocabulary word, fill in the blank with any word that makes sense in the sentence.

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. Even though he may not be “book-smart” he has a lot of ____ about the world.
6. “I shouldn’t have done that,” he said with a ____ sigh.
7. The paper said that the business man was an ____ to society…
8. …but ____(ly), he was secretly a gangster.
9. My parents were a little _____ about the crowd I was hanging out with.
10. At first, Pony thought he might be able to ____ the Socs by acting tough.
11. It was very (in)____ to cheat on a test and then brag.
12. S. E. Hinton says that she didn’t have the ____ to be a teacher.  The kids’ problems wore her out.
13. The quarterback ____(ed) every weakness in the defense and threw for 5 touchdowns.
14. At the family reunion, we sat around ___(ing) about the last reunion.
15. It would be ironic if a poor hobo spent his last dollar on a lottery ticket, and won.  a) True   b) False

“Adverb Review, 11/3.” Copy each word and ID it as adj, adv, n, v, or NOTA.
The busy beaver gnawed quite furiously on the tree trunk as the llama walked cautiously to the store.

1. busy
2. gnawed
3. quite
4. furiously
5. trunk
6. cautiously
7. store

The Midwife’s Apprentice.

Copy and complete the following sentence starter:

Although the villagers taunt Beetle because_____, the boys have always bullied her because______.

OK SO, what did you find out last night about the Middle Ages?

Short Week! No school for students on Friday.

Copy homework into assignment book.

“Vocabulary Review, 11/2.” All answers will be above the line.

1. Most religions promise eternal ______ in something like Heaven.
2. A person who doesn’t like to ______ to the group is often looked at as an outsider.
3. The Socs are the _____ social class in 1967 Tulsa, Oklahoma.
4. “Guess what I’ve been in jail for?” asked Dally, grinning ____(ly).
5. lazy : dogged :: flattered : ______
6. Listening to music is not ______ to studying.
7. Pony was _____ when he thought of what life was like when his parents were alive.
8. The teacher tried to ____ the correct response from the students by giving hints.
9. I never ___(ed)  that store again after they were rude to me.
10. Two-Bit told Pony about one of his ____(s) while Pony did the dishes.

Debrief Test #10. WHAT?! I threw out two questions! So your total is out of 36, not 38.

Beetle.

Shared lunch w/8th grade (shiver).

Notebook Audit (20p).
Leave your notebook out and closed. I will be looking for:

• Title and Date.
• Organization/Sequence.
• Wrong answers replaced with correct ones in red.
• Completeness.
• Neatness.

Prep sheet for Test #10:

• Adverbs: 10/27:___  10/28:___  10/29:___
• Vocabulary: 10/27:___/10  10/28:___/12  10/29:___/ 12
• Vocabulary Homework: ___/20
• Other Extra Credit: (May include… Lolly III for +1, lammiepie for +1, tourniquet for +1 or +2, Tantalus for +1.)

Mental Floss.

1. Mr. Cheeselog wasted lots of money every day, and now he is a millionaire. How?
2. Wacky Wordy. What phrase is represented here?
   Spring – Hola   Summer – Bonjour   Fall – Hello   Winter – Aloha
3. A man left his house to go to work. When he got home he saw that his house had been broken into. The robbers had taken everything in his house except for two one hundred dollar bills that were in plain sight. Why weren’t the one hundred dollar bills taken?
4. Bob was having a big party. He decided on a technique to get lots of people to come. He invited his five closest friends and said that they could each invite 4 people.  Each of those could invite 3. Each of those could invite 2. Each of those could invite 1. Overall, how many people did Bob invite to his party?
5. What is special about this letter arrangement?
   umop
6. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?

Test #10

Doodle Theme: Halloween!

Tomorrow’s Test: Adverbs, Vocabulary, MWA, Husker Du, Notebook Audit.

“Adverbs, 10/29.” Find and list ’em all! (otherwise + 11 more)

1. Yesterday I noisily ate my tasty sandwich with mutton and onions.
2. Daily(a) practice only works if you practice correctly and daily(b); otherwise it does not work.
3. “We can also give you a special intensifier, so you can paint it very neatly or rather sloppily.”

“Vocabulary, 10/29.” (11)

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. (Job Applicants’ Coaching) “Always remember that the most ____ person is the person who can hide his ____(ce) best.”
5. Everyone promised to ____ by Judge Judy’s decision.
6. The large donation was quite a(n) _____ for the poor little non-profit organization.
7. He bought his computer from a(n) ____ dealer, and when it broke the next day, they told him he was out of luck. (+ bonus answer.)
8. Investors lost millions on the ______ investment scheme.
9. The word midwife is a ______ of the Middle English words meaning “with woman.”
10. On the last day of school, the screams of joy will _____ in the hallways.
11. Aspirin is a ____ of the bark of the willow tree.

Vocabulary Relay!

The Midwife’s Apprentice

Let’s look up a few of her remedies.