Thursday, 11/09/00
Vocabulary + TS  (Time limit: 20 minutes.) If you are exempt from vocabulary, write exempt, and do only #11 in the vocabulary section. As always, be on the lookout for mistakes to fix for extra credit.
  1. What does the last line of Chapter Four mean?
  2. What does Tom end up doing with the tick he got from Huck? (Ch. 7)
  3. Why does Becky break up with Tom? (Ch. 7)
  4. Why does Tom envy Jimmy Hodges? (Ch. 8)
  5. (3) Name three careers Tom considers after his breakup with Becky. (Ch. 8)
  6. Who is the "Black Avenger of the Spanish Main"? (Ch. 8)
  7. When Tom's superstition about his marbles fails, he blames it on ... (Ch. 8)
  8. Why won't Tom "fall" (die) when he and Joe are "sword-fighting"? (Ch. 8)
    Vocabulary
  9. (2)Hamlet's famous ______, which begins with "To be or not to be...", is a very ______ speech.
  10. The miscreant was caught with the _____(ed) jewels in his posession and arrested.
  11. What's a miscreant?
  12. (2) The police told us not to _______ in front of the 7-11, they said we were acting like _____(s).
  13. Some people find caulaflower ____; but some people like it.
  14. Pony and Johnny saved the children from the _____ in the church.
  15. Turn repulsive back into the verb it is based on.
  16. One doesn't always have to speak to be ______: A look can say a lot.
repulsive, eloquent, soliloquy, loiter, vagrant, conflagration, purloin
 

Done? Check your SS sentences against these. Count your words, date the sheet, and put it in your folder.

  1. She seldom or never looked through her glasses for so small a thing as a boy.
  2. Close to the hour of noon, the whole village was suddenly electrified with the ghastly news.
  3. A newcomer of any age, or either sex, was an impressive curiosity in the shabby, little village of St. Petersburg.
  4. There was no need for the as yet undreamed of telegraph, because the tale flew from man to man, from house to house, from group to group.
  5. A tumblebug came next, heaving sturdily in its ball, and Tom touched it to see it shut its legs up against its body, and pretend to be dead.
  6. Grabbing the cat's tail, Crazy Chester headed for the light socket.
  7. Yelling at the baby-sitter, Jennifer flipped her strained spinach onto the floor.
  8. Then he went tearing around the house again, spreading chaos and destruction in his path.
  9. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth, and stepped back to note its effect.
Done with that?
  1. dove : owl :: peace : _________
  2. advance : retreat :: arrive : ________
  3. ________ : navy :: general : army
  4. silent : sound :: anonymous : _________
  5. trans : across :: circum : ___________
  6. conduct : deduct :: lead : _________
  7. E, H, L, O, S, _____
  8. B ( __  __  __ ) O W
  9. 3, 7, 16, 35, ___
  10. M, N, L, R, O, I, V, ___
Correct
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