Vocabulary for
4/18. EVERYTHING GOES INTO NOTEBOOK!
Due Tuesday: Look up definitions at learnersdictionary.com and
write them IN YOUR NOTEBOOK! Due THURSDAY: Copy and finish the Show Me
You Know Sentences in your notebook.
incognito, tedious, abstain, vanity, furtive, spite (n), becoming
(adj.), repent, swagger, intrepid, miscreant
Show
Me You Know Sentences. (Due Thursday in notebook.)
He tried to go
incognito... ____ was so
tedious... She abstained from...
He was full of vanity... She
furtively... He was very
spiteful... The outfit was very
becoming... He repented... He
walked with a swagger... The intrepid
explorer... He was a miscreant...
Tom
Sawyer Study Questions (TSSQ) 1-6. Answer in NOTEBOOK.
Chapter 1.
- What is Mark Twain saying Aunt Polly is trying
to do here?
While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as
opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were
full of guile, and very deep—for she wanted to trap him into
damaging revealments.
- What is Mark Twain saying about Aunt Polly in
this paragraph?
Like many other simple–hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to
believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious
diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent
devices as marvels of low cunning.
- What is it about the new boy that bugs Tom so
much? The way the new kid is _______.
- What does the last paragraph of chapter one say
Tom’s punishment will be for coming home late and with his
clothes all torn and dirty?
- Translate Slang: truck:
__________ dander up:
________
switch:_________
Chapter 2.
- (left) What is wrong with this illustration from the
original edition?
- (right) Which scene does the right hand pic show?
(That’s Jim with the bucket.)
- According to the author, what is the difference
between work and play?
- Who is the “great and wise philosopher” mentioned on
p15? (I need a NAME.)
- “bully” = “gay” a) True b) False
Chapter 3
- What does Tom fantasize about twice in Chapter 3?
- How does Tom get revenge for the maid dumping water
on him?
Chapter 6
- What happens to Tom's pulled tooth?
- What does Tom say to the schoolmaster that
makes him so angry?
- Re. the picture. Who is the tall one?
- Re. the picture. Why was it drawn?
- The word jubilant (p50) most nearly
means...