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
  1. Never sign anything you haven't __________(ed) very carefully.
  2. The sounds of music ___________ from a tinny phonograph.
  3. The ___________ smell of garlic filled the house.
  4. Robert, trying to hide his friendship with Jeff, always took a __________ route to his house.
  5. After more than two weeks in the cave, Injun Joe's corpse was very ______.
  6. That was a ____________ dive, just beautiful.
  7. 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.
  8. (2) After the stock market crashed in 1929, many men who were once rich were now ____________, and faced living in ______________.
  9. The car he bought for $100 was not as ____________ as you might think.
  10. (6) Copy and label: The book was unusually exciting, and I could hardly put it down. (1n, 2adj, 3adv)
  11. (3) Adverb: A word used to modify (describe) a ________, __________, or _________.
  12. 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.