Wednesday, 1/10/01
Remember: Final drafts (on disk!!!)
and covers are due tomorrow! Bring a graphic for your essay...Go
over vocabulary h/w. Vocabulary/Grammar Pretest:
pungent, splendid, peruse, circuituous, gaunt, steep,
dilapidated, squalor, destitute, emanate
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Never sign anything you haven't __________(ed) very carefully.
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The sounds of music ___________ from a tinny phonograph.
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The ___________ smell of garlic filled the house.
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Robert, trying to hide his friendship with Jeff, always took
a __________ route to his house.
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After more than two weeks in the cave, Injun Joe's corpse
was very ______.
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That was a ____________ dive, just beautiful.
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Many people say that today's kids are __________(ed) in a
culture of violence, every day absorbing violent images in movies, TV,
and video games.
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(2) After the stock market crashed in 1929, many men who
were once rich were now ____________, and faced living in ______________.
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The car he bought for $100 was not as ____________ as you
might think.
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(6) Copy and label: The book was unusually exciting,
and I could hardly put it down. (1n, 2adj, 3adv)
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(3) Adverb: A word used to modify (describe) a ________,
__________, or _________.
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Adjectives answer the questions "____________?", "what kind?",
"how many?" about nouns.
Q/A about first two paragraphs of "MFN."
Funny names? Haile Selassie (born Ras Tafari Makonnen),
League of Nations When? Where? Why tomatoes? Pathe newsreel? Globe Theater?
layoff/comb shop, deep silence? Funny title? "Midnight" Raiders
Read aloud.