Wednesday, 3/3/99
I. Vocabulary, Etc. Practice:
As I took a long and (1) ______________ route home from
school (I just wanted to see some new sights), I noticed the (2)___________
smell of liver and onions (3)______________(ing) from an old, (4)_____________
house that looked ready to fall down. Obviously the people inside were
poor--actually, completely (5)______________ --to be living in such depressing
(6)_____________ . But, even though I usually hate liver and onions, the
smells coming from this ramshackle house were (7)______________.
(8) Before you begin a test, always _________ the directions
from beginning to end.
(9) The old man was so ______ you could see his bones
through his skin.
(10) Since he spent his whole life being ________(ed)
in the culture of France, he seemed more French than American.
pungent, splendid, peruse, circuitous, emanate,
gaunt, steep, dilapidated, squalor, destitute
A verb is a word that shows action or otherwise helps
to make a statement.
A) Identify the verbs, adjectives, nouns, and adverbs
in the sentences below.
B) Each of the three sentences is missing one piece of
punctuation. What is it? Where does it go?
(11) Jimmy brought baked potatoes and Joey ate them like
a pig. (4n, 2adj, 2v)
(12) Mary decided not to go to the party instead, she
ordered greasy pizza. (3n, 3v, 2adj, 1adv)
(13) Which of this weeks words are used as verbs?
II. "My First Negro"
Intro (in notebook):
A) What would you do if you had a good friend who
was not accepted by your other friends?
B) What qualities make you not like a person/people?
Be specific!
C) What was the Great Depression? When did it occur?
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