I will be checking KBARR and spelling practice.
Prep sheet for Test #5:
Plot Quiz: ___/6 Vocabulary Homework:___/20
Warm Ups: 9/21:___/6 9/22:___/13 9/23:___/15 9/24:___/14
Other Extra Credit: Period 3 gets +3 for vocab relay, Period 4 gets +2 for vocab relay (hush). Other extra credit may include: +1 for bootleg, +1 or +2 for homophone. The extra credit for mimicked and for vain/vane/vein should have been added into the warm up scores.
Today’s Doodle Theme: Music.
Mental Floss.
- Explain the following true boast: “In my bedroom, the nearest lamp that I usually keep turned on is 12 feet away from my bed. Alone in the room, without using wires, strings, or any other aids or contraptions, I can turn out the light on that lamp and get into bed before the room is dark.”
- What are the elusive characters; missing two letters or numbers? (In other words, what letters go into the blanks? The answer is NOT R and E.)
W A T E ___ M ___ L O N
- 1961 was a special year (besides the fact that Mr. Coward was born then). In fact, the next time a year will be this special will be the year 6009. What is so special about those two years?
- If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
- In each sentence below, an animal is concealed. For example, the sentence, “What shall I do, Gertrude?” has the word dog concealed. Find the hidden animal in each sentence.
- a) Horace tries in school to be a very good boy.
- b) People who drive too fast are likely to be arrested.
- c) For the Halloween party, John came looking like a radish.
- When does 1+1+1=1?