Friday, 11/16/01
Mental Floss: + 1/2 each. Put on Quiz sheet.
1) Can you take three letters away from a four letter word and yet not change its meaning?
2) What question can a person ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?
3) Take five pennies from 100 pennies, and what do you have?
4) Here is a question on North American law: If an international airliner crashed exactly on the U.S.-Mexican border, where would they be required to bury the survivors from Canada?
Paragraph scramble. Counts for 600. Use separate sheet. (+2 each)

1a) In addition, it helps you to relax.   1b) Increasing the heart rate for a short period of time is beneficial to a healthy body.   1c) Exercising is useful not only to relax the body but also to help the heart function properly.   *1d) Physical exercise is wonderful because it develops your muscles and improves your circulation. (55)

2a) Tom's thoughts grew more worrisome. 2b) The hooting of a distant owl was all the sound that troubled the dead stillness. *2c) They waited in silence for what seemed like a long time. 2d) So he said in a whisper, "Hucky, do you believe the dead people like it for us to be here?" 2e) He must force some talk. (55)

Correct Study Questions.
Tom Sawyer Reading Check. (20) Also be sure to record: 1) Your study questions' score ( /40), 2) Your score on the SE Hinton questions ( /15), 3) Your score on yesterday's reading check ( /5), 4) Any extra credit you may have earned this week. Extra Credit Minimum: 4.

1. (3) "It's blood, it's blood, that's what it is!" (p80b, p73w) Who's talking? What's going on?
2. (2) "BLOOD!" (p89b, p83w) Who's talking? What's going on?
3. Tom and Joe are running away because they both feel that they have been ...
4. (3) Name three of the things the boys brought with them when they ran away to the island.
5. (2) "The other pirates envied him this majestic vice, and secretly resolved to aquire it shortly." (p93b, p86w) Explain. Look up the word vice if you have to.
6. (3) Name 3 of the things that Tom says pirates have to do to "have a bully time."
7. (2) Why do Tom and Joe's consciences start to bother them at the end of Chapter 13?
8. (2) Why does Tom get excited when the caterpillar crawls over his leg? (1st page of chapter 14)
9. Give an example from Chapter 14 of Tom insisting on doing things "the hard way" or "by the book."
10. Why do Tom and Joe's consciences start to bother them at the end of Chapter 14?
11. EC (+1): What is quicksilver? (p99b, p91w)
12. EC (up to +5): Draw a map of where the island is, and how the boys got there. Be sure to include distances, and labels.(p88-91b, p82-84w)