Tuesday, 12/12/00
Warm Up: Prefixes and Suffixes
Add one of the following prefixes or suffixes to each of the words below to change it into the new part of speech. You may use a prefix or suffix more than once and you may have to change or remove a letter or two of the original word to make the combination. Copy!     [ant, re, be, ward, ion, ly, ful, able, ize, ish, less, ous, ance]
1. laugh (n. or v.) + ___________ = _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  (adj.)
2. decorate (v.) + __________ = _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (n.)
3. memory (n.) + __________ = _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (adj.)
4. memory (n.) + __________ = _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (v.)
5. swift (adj.) + _________ = _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (adv.)
6. peace (n.) + __________ = _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (adj.)

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Tom Sawyer Reading Check

1. (5) "It's a name that can open this door night or day, lad!--and welcome!"Who's talking? What's going on? Who's he talking about? Why has his attitude changed? What is "unusual  about this statement?
2. (2) How/when are Tom and Becky discovered missing?

Editors Edit
Writers: Proofreading. All of these sentences came from "Messy Room" essays. Can you find and fix all 21 mistakes? Copy and fix. (All words count for 600.)

1. That night I laid in bed thinking of all the A's and B's I could of got if I hadn't of turned my room into a land fill. (4)
2. Unfortunately they have an extreamly foul stench that I think might eaven make a dog uninterested. (2)
3. My room, it looked as if a dump truck barged through it and dumped it's trash all over. I quivered in dicust. (4)
4. Sports equipment scatered all over the floor. (2)
5. I had to check under the layer of close but soon enough I found my closet. (2)
6. The smell of month old sandwhiches from you're school lunch. (3)
7. Mom opens the door and screams "your grounded". (4)

Done? Write...

1. Imagine you are visiting a planet where people don't know what laughter is. Write a speech called "How to Laugh." First define what laughter is. Then compare and contrast different kinds of laughs (chuckle, guffaw, snicker, titter, giggle) and describe/show each.
2. What color do you think love is? Explain your answer. What color do you think hate is? Explain your answer.
3. Crazy Combination. Write a poem that has in every line...the name of an animal and a kitchen utensil, a color and a fruit, a body part and a famous person, a power source and a dance, or any other crazy combination.
4. It was a weird thing, hairy and smelly and limp, but I loved it because...
5. How I feel about my alarm clock.
6. Choose a "fad" here at school that you have observed (or participated in). Describe the fad (a suddenly popular way of dressing or acting or speaking, or a suddenly popular activity like yo-yos) from the point of view of someone who's never seen such things before. Show people in action. Try to figure out what caused a large group of people to starting doing the same thing(s).