Wednesday, 4/10/02 (45)
Warm Up. Copy.
  1. scholar : prudent :: psychic : *___________
  2. cause : effect :: action : *____________
  3. undependable : irresponsible :: unlikely : *________
  4. career : livelihood :: annoyance : *________
  5. nonconforming : similar :: united : *_________
  6. 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
  1. After the way the employees treated me, I will never _________ that store again!
  2. It is highly ___________ that your dog ate your homework, again.
  3. The pitch was too fast for me, and I just _________(ed) at it and missed.
  4. Finally, in ______________(ion), I gave up.
  5. "She smoothed her long skirt...and sat down with a little _________ like a young girl."
  6. "I began to use my heavy-soled boots as clubs, ________(ing) wildly at the man."
  7. "Don’t give me your ___________(ing), mealy-mouthed answers."
  8. Class runs much more smoothly when people are not ____________.
  9. "What if I won a million dollars?" he _____________(ed) to himself.
  10. A person in a wheelchair may need help sometimes, but he/she certainly doesn’t want to be ____________(ed).
  11. It gets rather __________(ing) to see the same spelling mistakes over and over again.
  12. When I asked her how she knew something was wrong, she said, "It's just Mother's ________(ion)."
Dragonwings
  1. Why was Moon Shadow's mother "always polite to everyone"?
  2. (2) Why was it "customary every New Year's to bribe the little Stove King"? Give an example of this "bribery."
  3. (2) What does Moon Shadow think that milk is? After he tastes it, what does he think of the taste?
stereopticon,  "Simple Gifts.mp3", St. George and the Dragon, horseless carriage,
Read aloud: 118-122.