Wednesday, 3/29/00
Vocabulary Pretest
  1. After the earthquake many of the rich who were once __________ were now humbled and looking for crusts of bread like everyone else.
  2. After the earthquake, San Francisco looked as ________ as the surface of the moon.
  3. A lack of studying will lead to a(n) __________performance on the test.
  4. It was on a(n) ________ that he decided to buy another peice of chocolate.
  5. When he first arrived at the church, Ponyboy had a(n) __________ feeling that something bad would happen.
  6. **We call this kind of feeling a(n) _________________.
  7. Moon Shadow thinks that Robin talks ________(ly) and monopolizes every conversation.
  8. Ponyboy thought back _________(ly) to the days when his parents were still alive.
  9. People in China _________ their elders much more than we do in the US.
  10. Joey is a very ___________(ive) boy, who has trouble controling his urges.
  11. The _________ for the inside of a computer is very complicated.
  12. He left his bookmark ___________(ing) from the book.
schematic, wistful, venerate, protrude, impulse, haughty, forlorn, ominous, incessant, inept
Dragonwings + Video
True/False (Write "true" for the true statements and make the false ones true using complete sentences.)
1. The earthquake happened in the middle of the day, when most people were at work.
2. The quake was the worst natural disaster to ever to happen to a world city.
3. People were loud and boisterous and fired-up after the quake.
4. One of the biggest fires to occur afterward was called "the Chicken-Fried Steak Fire."
5. Even soldiers took part in the looting after the disaster.
6. Looters were usually arrested and fined if they were caught.
7. The Army was sent in and martial* law was declared after the quake. (*Law in the time of war.)
8.People grabbed anything they could carry. One man was even seen rolling a ________ down the street.
9. The number one occupation ("the central activity of life") after the quake was _________________ for food or water or such. (+1 for correct use of a recent vocabulary word.)
10. If you weren’t doing that you were probably ____________. (Sometimes they even used force—a la Windrider and Miss Whitlaw—to persuade you.)
11.(4) When they finally had to evacuate the house, Miss Whitlaw took what she called the "essentials of life:__________(name at least three.) What did Robin carry to protect them? (Be specific)
12. (2) How do they get a wagon with which to evacuate? Where do the Whitlaws go? 
13. How does the author foreshadow that the coming fires will be a huge problem? (What does Father notice that no one else does?)
14. (2) What is Lefty’s initial reaction to Miss Whitlaw?  What is Father’s opinion of  Miss Whitlaw after the events of Chapter 9? (Quote him.) 
Rock and Roll (Part I) 

 1a. The videotape begins to roll. 
 1b. The screen fills with hysteria. 
 1c. The hysteria is in a stadium. 
 1d. A live concert is in the stadium. 

 2a. The singer is young. 
 2b. The singer is skinny. 
 2c. The singer steps into the spotlight. 
 2d. The spotlight is red. 

 3a. His shirt is unbuttoned. 
 3b. This bares his chest. 
 3c. His chest is pale. 

 4a. Sounds swirl around him. 
 4b. The sounds are guitars. 
 4c. The sounds are drums. 
 4d. The sounds are girls. 
 4e. The girls are screaming.