Thursday, 01/10/02
Warm Up.
  1. *star : telescope :: cell : ________
  2. *athlete : injury :: ________ : career
  3. Which doesn't fit, and why? precise, microscopic, explosion, circuitous, destitute
"MFN" (17 points)
Read silently until you get to the end of the second to last paragraph on page 150. (The paragraph that begins "A terrific idea..." should be the last one you read. Then answer the questions below in your notebook.
1. (3) What is a Canuck, newsreel, davenport?
2. (3) Pepere is French for ___ . Mardis Gras is French for ____. Noir is French for ____ .
3. What is today's equivalent of the League of Nations?
4. (2) List two of the stereotypes that Robert (the narrator) thought of when he met Jefferson.
5. What does Robert think of Jeff's name? (p145)
6. Why is Robert disappointed when Jeff tells him his family came from Boston looking for work? (p145)
7. (2) What do Jeff's father and Robert's father have in common? (Besides both being dads.)
8. Why is Nutsy afraid of Jeff? (Quote.)
9. Quote the sentence on page 149 where Robert comes back out of the flashback about Jeff.
10. (2) What was Robert's "bright idea" for the raid? What was he thinking?

Done?
Editors Edit.
Writers work on Sentence Combining (Due tomorrow, EOP.)
Then...Sentence Scramble (Due next Friday, EOP.)