A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between
three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full
of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't
eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
Go over yesterday's
warm up. Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest--muse, patronize, intuitive, improbable,
unruly, flounce, flail, exasperate, simper
After the way the employees treated me, I will never _________
that store again!
It is highly ___________ that your dog ate your homework,
again.
The pitch was too fast for me, and I just _________(ed) at
it and missed.
Finally, in ______________(ion), I gave up.
"She smoothed her long skirt...and sat down with a little
_________ like a young girl."
"I began to use my heavy-soled boots as clubs, ________(ing)
wildly at the man."
"Don’t give me your ___________(ing), mealy-mouthed answers."
Class runs much more smoothly when people are not
____________.
"What if I won a million dollars?" he _____________(ed) to
himself.
A person in a wheelchair may need help sometimes, but he/she
certainly doesn’t want to be ____________(ed).
It gets rather __________(ing) to see the same spelling mistakes
over and over again.
When I asked her how she knew something was wrong, she said,
"It's just Mother's ________(ion)."
Dragonwings
Why was Moon Shadow's mother "always polite to everyone"?
(2) Why was it "customary every New Year's to bribe the little
Stove King"? Give an example of this "bribery."
(2) What does Moon Shadow think that milk is? After he tastes
it, what does he think of the taste?
