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.
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What does the last line of Chapter Four mean?
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What does Tom end up doing with the tick he got from Huck?
(Ch. 7)
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Why does Becky break up with Tom? (Ch. 7)
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Why does Tom envy Jimmy Hodges? (Ch. 8)
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(3) Name three careers Tom considers after his breakup with
Becky. (Ch. 8)
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Who is the "Black Avenger of the Spanish Main"? (Ch. 8)
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When Tom's superstition about his marbles fails, he blames
it on ... (Ch. 8)
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Why won't Tom "fall" (die) when he and Joe are "sword-fighting"?
(Ch. 8)
Vocabulary
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(2)Hamlet's famous ______, which begins with "To be or not
to be...", is a very ______ speech.
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The miscreant was caught with the _____(ed) jewels
in his posession and arrested.
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What's a miscreant?
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(2) The police told us not to _______ in front of the 7-11,
they said we were acting like _____(s).
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Some people find caulaflower ____; but some people like it.
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Pony and Johnny saved the children from the _____ in the
church.
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Turn repulsive back into the verb it is based on.
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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.
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She seldom or never looked through her glasses for so small
a thing as a boy.
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Close to the hour of noon, the whole village was suddenly
electrified with the ghastly news.
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A newcomer of any age, or either sex, was an impressive curiosity
in the shabby, little village of St. Petersburg.
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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.
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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.
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Grabbing the cat's tail, Crazy Chester headed for the light
socket.
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Yelling at the baby-sitter, Jennifer flipped her strained
spinach onto the floor.
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Then he went tearing around the house again, spreading chaos
and destruction in his path.
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Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth, and stepped
back to note its effect.
Done with that?
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dove : owl :: peace : _________
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advance : retreat :: arrive : ________
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________ : navy :: general : army
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silent : sound :: anonymous : _________
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trans : across :: circum : ___________
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conduct : deduct :: lead : _________
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E, H, L, O, S, _____
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B ( __ __ __ ) O W
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3, 7, 16, 35, ___
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M, N, L, R, O, I, V, ___
Correct
Tom Sawyer aloud