Wednesday, 9/27/00
Analogies: (Copy! A * means that the answer is a spelling or vocabulary word.)
  1. pins : bowling :: archery : _______
  2. * circle : sphere :: ________ : pyramid
  3. significant : meaningless :: _______ : worthless
  4. * watch : observe :: escape : ________
  5. _______: jet :: red : ruby
Vocabulary Pretest + Punctuation Practice
Not only are the vocabulary words missing from the blanks, but someone also took all the commas and semicolons out of the sentences. Put everything back where it belongs. (5 commas + 2 semicolons, each word used once)
  1. Maybe Dally’s cold unfeeling exterior is simply a ________ that hides his true feelings.
  2. Even after I read the poem three times the meaning still _______(ed) me.
  3. As Pony entered the scary old church he had a ____________ that something bad might happen.
  4. The boys ran away because they thought the police would not find their story ________  they thought the fuzz would believe the Socs and not some greasers.
  5. A record store clerk who hates music is an example of ___________.
  6. The Southern gentlemen in Gone with the Wind rode ________(ly) into battle to save their homes.
  7. Pony's jaw dropped ____________(ly) when Cherry said she might fall in love with Dally.
  8. S.E. Hinton _______________(ed) that Johnny would use his knife in Chapter 4 by calling our attention to it in Chapter 2.
  9. Johnny set the gun down ___________ he was afraid it might go off.
  10. Pony also calls it "knowing the score." ____________
  11. He was such a smooth talker I _________(ly) fell for his scam.
  12. No one could _____________ why Two-Bit liked school.
  13. Give an example of irony from The Outsiders.
  14. The Latin root cred means ____________.
 incredulous, fathom, premonition, gingerly, credible, irony, elude, savvy, foreshadow, facade, gallant, credulous

Done? In notebook:
Do you think the problems Pony and the rest of the greasers faced in
1967 are similar to those faces by kids today? Give examples of problems then and now. What has changed? What is still the same? Are things better or worse for kids today? What makes you think so?

Return Weird Planet. Discuss.