Tuesday, 5/22/01
Warm Up--Copy 1-7 and 10. All answers come from this week's spelling/vocabulary list. For numbers 6 and 7, copy the series of words, and add a word from our list that fits with the others.
  1. high school : teacher :: college : *_________
  2. confirmation : cancellation :: abbreviate : *__________
  3. skim : peruse :: lose : *__________
  4. peak : zenith :: prepared : *__________
  5. hero : villain :: divine : *__________(ing)
  6. assent, remit, misspell, prevail, *___________
  7. stark, forbidding, necessary, omniscient, *___________
  8. (2) In Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain is a _______-person, *___________ narrator. He knows everything about everyone in the story.
  9. This is different from Pony in The Outsiders, who is a _______-person, limited narrator. He can tell us only what he sees and hears.
  10. (2) 35/40 = _______% = _________(Letter Grade)
Grammar Review I--
"Unpack Your Adjectives" "Lolly's, Lolly's, Lolly's..."
  1. What is an adjective?
  2. What is an adverb?
  3. (Adj or adv?) She jumped up suddenly and left the room.
  4. (Adj or adv?) That oil painting is absolutely magnificent.
  5. (Adj or adv?) At the pet shop, a cuddly, little kitten snuggled up to me, and I nearly bought it.
  6. (Adj or adv?) The early bird gets the worm.


"Delinquent" by Langston Hughes
Name another poem we have read by Langston Hughes.
What's a delinquent? What else does it mean?