Spelling Pretest #8
1. Please stay inside the park boundry.
2. No, I won’t purmit you to do that!
3. Their marrage lasted for over forty
years.
4. Would you like a peace of pie?
5. Please ask the flight attendent for
a blanket.
6. I have a subscrition to that magazine.
7. Some students think that Mr. Coward is too leanient,
others say he is too mean.
8. He was a hansome man.
9. What is your job or proffession?
10. He made four atempts to fly.
11. "Idol hands are the Devil’s workshop."
12. The mothers of the town thought that Huck was a dizgrase.
13. You are recquired to do this project.
14. I had a large bruse on my arm where
I was hit.
15. Please be searious; this is no laughing
matter.
16. He is very skinny, with a very small waste.
17. Tom Sawyer likes to get into mischeaf.
18. My brother and me got into an arguement.
19. She carryed the bucket.
20. There is more divercity at this school
than ever before.
Vocabulary: Copy the paragraph below into your notebook,
filling in the corect word for each blank. Definitions and sentences of
your own are due Wednesday.
Tom was very _________ about avoiding work, but he worked
even harder at getting Becky to notice him. Just look at all the ____________
and outrageous stunts he pulled! Finally, when she did notice him, he was
____________; it was the best thing! But even though Tom was very sly and
__________ in getting her attention, he blew it when he mentioned Amy.
Becky got mad, and now Tom thinks life is ____________.
odious, guile(ful), diligent, audacious, ecstatic
Letter From Ponyboy (due Thursday...counts for 600 words)
Write a Letter from Pony to his
brother Darry (or Soda), dated today. (Use
the first person I.) Show what
Pony is doing, where he is living, what his
career is. Also show what his brother(s)
are up to. Make it sound like Pony.
Make it plausible. Use letter form.
Separate sheet of paper--in folder--must be neat.