Monday, 11/1/99
Copy Homework into assignment book.
Pretest #8 (Vocabulary due Wednesday.)
Tom Sawyer Questions:
Chapter 1
  1.     How does Aunt Polly find out that Tom did go swimming?
  2.     What is it about the new boy that bugs Tom so much?
  3.     What can we already tell about Aunt Polly?
  4.     What does "spare the rod and spoil the child" mean?
  5.     Slang: truck, lick, dander up, powerful warm, lam, suck eggs, ?
Chapter 2
  1.     Name three things that Tom got the kids to give him.
  2.     According to MT, what is the difference between work and play? (p13)
  3.     Slang: bully, taw, gay, up a stump, honest injun, shucks
Chapter 3
Reading Check:
Put the events that did occur in Chapter 3 into the proper sequence. Eliminate those event that did
not occur. Copy only the bold-faced parts. Fill in the blanks as needed.
Tom...

  1....gets whacked for Sid breaking the sugar bowl...
  2....plays with his dead rat on a string...
  3....goes to the new girl's house and lies under the window...
  4....forgets about Amy Lawrence...
  5....gets tattled on by Sid
  6....fantasizes about _________...
  7....sees a new girl and starts _________...
  8....throws a rock through a window...
  9....gets a ________, (which he picks up with his toes)...
  10....beats up a kid while playing Army...
  11....tricks some little kids...
  12....acts as a general while playing Army...
  13....nails Sid with dirt clods...
  14....steals a _________...
  15....goes to Sunday School...

Why did Aunt Polly NOT apologize to Tom?