Thursday, 9/19: Warm Up, Gramma’, Vocab, Outsiders

Tomorrow’s Test: Gramma, Vocab, Outsiders, Husker Du. Link after Period 4

“Test Practice, 9/19.” COPY 1-5 and say whether the word is a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb or NOTA.
For a brief moment, Jimmy stupidly thought he could fly like a very graceful bird across the blue sky.

  1. brief:
  2. fly:
  3. thought:
  4. very:
  5. graceful:
  6. he:
  7. That was an embarrassing moment when you realized your llama just wrote a run-on sentence. Fragment, Run-on, OK?
  8. Up, up, and away flew my beautiful llama balloon.  Fragment, Run-on, OK?
  9. Our destination, the top of Jay Mountain, seemed so far away.   S/V?
  10. The spinning ride made the llama sick.  S/V?

“Vocab, 9/19.”
    
discreet, discrete, vain, elicit, illicit, hysterical, contemplate, patronize, stamina, indulge

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. _____
  6. A spy must be ____ and not go blabbing secrets around.
  7. Every time Dr. Pavlov rang a bell, he _____(ed) a response from the dog, who thought he was going to be fed.
  8. The root of this word meant “place for meditation.”____
  9. The teacher’s attitude was very _____(ing); he always treated his class like they were in kindergarten.
  10. You are all one class, but you are _____ individuals.
  11. If you ____ (ed) Chipotle last night, it benefited the band program. (Not really.)
  12. Buck Merrill sometimes sold _____ alcohol.  (It was called bootlegging.)
  13. Ponyboy was rather ______ immediately after the events in the park.

Vocab Relay.

The Outsiders.

Test Preview.

  1. What do we learn about Dally when he talks to Johnny about jail?
  2. When does Pony say was the first time he ever saw Johnny without that defeated look on his face?
  3. Why would Johnny be “having the time of his life” in the church?
  4. Johnny’s behavior (not scared, having fun, very decisive) inside the burning church is both  ironic and not ironic.  a) True  b) False
  5. When Pony asks about Dally and Johnny, and Jerry Wood “studies his wedding ring,” what’s going on?
  6. How/when does Pony finally realize that Darry really does care about him?

Chapter 6– 7.

A link to the on-line version in case you are absent.