Month: January 2025

TuTu Schedule.

Prep Sheet for Test #18:
KBARR: ___/18      Vladek Quiz: ___/7   Notebook check: ___/10  Other Extra Credit:

Mental Floss.

1. What’s the common link?
   • a) tailor, wrestling match, bowling alley
   • b) watermelon, tournament, flower
   • c) hurricane, needle, potato
   • d) barber, rooster, beehive
2. A man builds an extraordinary house where all four sides face south.  A bear walks up to one of his windows and peers in. What color is the bear?
3. Serena needed to go to the store to buy some ingredients to cook with. She started writing them down: butter, milk, eggs, duct tape, cashews, toilet paper, oranges, vinegar, lemon juice…     What was Serena making?
4. Cross out six letters and you’ll find an easy word. What is the word?  SBAIXNLETATNERSAS
5. A donkey behind another donkey,
   I’m behind that second donkey,
   But there is a whole nation behind me.
   It is a murder you can describe in a word: ______

Test #18.  PLEASE NOTE: CHOOSE “C” FOR QUESTION #3. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION IN THIS MANNER.

Doodle Theme: Design a killer new bike!

Tomorrow’s Test : Spelling, Scrambles, Maus. Preview after Period 4.

“Scramble, 1/23.” Different ways to go on this sentence. Four commas.

1. who said his name was Runt
2. who was having trouble
3. got back to the midwife’s cottage
4. when Alyce and the boy
5. Jane was out
6. with her milk
7. seeing to Kate the weaver’s daughter

“Spelling, 1/23.” COPY 1-6. COPY the correct pair. NOT THE LETTER; THE WORDS! 

1. center/group  a) corpse/core  b) core/corpse  c) corps/corp  d) corps/core  e) core/corps
2. Cheerios/#25489   a) serial/cereal  b) cereal/cerial  c) cerial/serial  d) cereal/serial
3. who owns/who is    a) whose/who’s  b) who’s/whose  c) who’se/who’s  d) who’s/whos’
4. it is/it owns   a) it’s/its  b) its’/its  c) it’s/its’
5. belongs to them/location   a) their/they’re  b) there/their  c) their/there  d) they’re/there
6. inactive/hero  a) idole/idol b) idel/idol c) idle/idol d) idol/idle
7. it’s, they’re, ___
8. Do you understand the ____(s) of dividing fractions?
9. The word ____ comes from the French word for body.
10. Please note the ____ number on the device you are trying to get help with.

Finish Maus.

Questions on tomorrow’s test:

1. Who helped Anja survive the end of the war?
2. How were Vladek and the others saved from being shot by the lake?
3. What does schnell mean?
4. What was the explosion Vladek and Shivek felt in the barn?
5. Why couldn’t Vladek and Anja move back in with Uncle Herman in  the US after the war?
6. Why did Anja want to move to the US instead of staying in Sweden?
7. Why do the Poles leave Anja alone after the war?
8. What gives Anja hope about Vladek after the war?
9. What is a DP?
10. What is a Gentile?
11. Art Spiegelman has said that the final page of Maus II really has at least three endings. What stories come to an end on that page?

Time?

Euphemism (n – U FEM ISM): A “nice” way of saying something  unpleasant. eu- = “good.”

Examples: passed on = died, sanitation engineer = garbage man,

1. visually disabled =
2. solid waste =
3. landfill =
4. economically disadvantaged =
5. correctional facility =
6. vertically challenged =
7. intentionally inaccurate statement  =

“Spelling, 1/22.”  corps/core, capitol/capital, kernel/colonel, idol/idle, cereal/serial, principle/principal, whose/who’s, their/they’re/there, its/it’s

1. (3) ___ been said that many stereotypes sometimes start with a ___(2) of truth.
2. (2) Knock, knock!    ______  ______?
3. (2) “____ the Army _____ of Engineers to help with the flooding.” (The answer to #2’s knock, knock.)
4. Vladek tried to get Artie to take home the almost empty ____ box.
5. (3) ____ at it again over _____, driving one of _____ strange cars.
6. A basic truth about a school leader: A _____ _____

“Scramble, 1/22.” Write out the paragraph in order.

1. Nothing.
2. She crept closer.
3. And then nothing again.
4. Beetle watched it.
5. She crept up to the bag and found the cat tangled in the sack.
6. A sudden movement sent her scurrying back to the tree.
7. Nothing.

“Maus Quiz, 1/22.”

1. Where does Vladek say his “troubles began”?
2. What was the biggest “trouble”?
3. Why did the French man share his food with Vladek?
4. (2) If Vladek was too weak to walk, how did he get on the train out of Dachau?
5. Where was the train headed?
6. What was Vladek’s explanation for his racism?

Maus.

“A quiet triumph, moving and simple–impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics.”  –Washington Post

What do you think? Is that true?

Vladek’s exact words…

Read aloud Chapter 4, p274–>  Online Version: p114—>

Welcome to Semester #2.

New seating charts. New start.

Copy homework into planner.

“Spelling, 1/21.”
corps/core, capitol/capital, kernel/colonel, idol/idle, cereal/serial, principle/principal, whose/who’s, their/they’re/there, its/it’s
COPY!!!

1.  friendly : hostile :: active : _____
2.  its, whose, ____
3. (2)  Sacramento : ______ :: Mr. Meinert : ______
4.  The popcorn ____ exploded.
5. hero : ____ :: rank : _____
6. (2) _______ books are ______?

“Scramble, 1/21.” This one is a toughie. Especially the comma placement!

• but he
• the taunting, pinching village boys
• always escaped
• as they did Beetle
• quicker and smarter than they
• bedeviled the cat

Maus. To the end of Chapter 3 —>. (online version)

Prep Sheet for Quiz 17:

Maus Quiz: ___/6   Other Extra Credit.

Mental Floss.

1. There is a building with thirty stories and one elevator. On floor twenty-one, four people get on and zero get off. On floor thirteen, six get on and two get off. On floor nine, eight people get on and four get off. How many people would get on and off on floor thirty-one?
2. Find the name of a planet hidden in each of the following sentences:
   • a) “Steven, use the screwdriver to build those shelves.”
   • b) Everyone takes a turn in the cage.
   • c) “Catherine, you ran us over with your bicycle!”
   • d) “Sam, arsenic is poisonous! I read about it on the internet.”
3. The amazing No Snore Sally has gone 11 days without sleeping. How does she do it?
4. What large and well known city in the U.S.A. is half golden and half silver?
5. Although very old coins tend to be worth more than their face value, why is it that 1997 nickels are worth about $100?

Quiz 17.

The Future?