Friday, 1/29: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #20

Prep sheet for Test #20.
120 Warm Ups: ___/3  ___/5      Argument Worksheet: ___/15
Vocabulary H/W: ___ /20 Vocabulary Practices: ___/13  ___/12  ___/11

Possible Other Extra Credit: Period 3 take +3 for Vocab Relay, S/CD/CX = + 1 or +2, +1 for ellipses.

Mental Floss.

  1. How can you perform a subtraction from seven so that the result will be even, but without subtracting any odd numbers?
  2. What is so light that anyone on Earth can hold it, but so heavy that nobody can hold it longer than about 20 minutes?
  3. At noon, you look at the old-school clock in your bedroom. The big hand is on the five and the little hand is in between the three and the four. What time is it?
  4. Two fathers and two sons own 21 horses between them. Explain how it is possible to evenly divide the herd among them. (NO, you don’t get to cut up any horses!)
  5. Where do you leave a “place” by closing the “window”?  (On a _____.)
  6. In a small town in the country, a male cow swallowed an explosive device. The town newspaper had a front page story about it.   Which one-word headline did they use?
    * Shocking!  * How?  * Dangerous!  * Terrifying!
    * Abominable!  * What?  * Horrible! 

Test #20. Depending on your class period, you may have to finish reading Chapter 6.

PLEASE REPLACE QUESTION 32 with the answers to your period’s 120 questions. See below.

Period 1:
29. Which book was about an animal?
30. Which book was set in a dystopian future?
31. Which book was a fantasy?
32. Which book featured funny voices?

Period 3:
31. Which book yesterday involved a young spy?
32. Which book’s narrator was used to people looking at him funny?
33. Which book was a mystery with clues to help solve it?
34. Which book was a fantasy?

Period 4:
31. Which book yesterday gave the “backstory” for its famous characters?
32. Which book was set in a dystopian future?
33. Which teen fiction book sounded like it would be sad?
34. Which book were we warned might need parental approval?
35. Which book yesterday involved a girl with a strange way of hearing/seeing?

Period 5:
31. Which book yesterday was a comedy?
32. Which book was historical fiction?
33. Which book was based on an old fairy tale?
34. Which book was set in a dystopian future?
35. Which book featured some rather adult language?

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