Wednesday, 4/02/03
Warm Up. Copy 1-5 into notebook.
If you didn't do the reading check yesterday, do that instead.
  1. *"not moves" = _________
  2. *scholar : prudent :: psychic : ___________ 
  3. *undependable : irresponsible :: unlikely : _______
  4. *read : illiterate :: think : __________
  5. *rowdy : unruly :: unripe : ________
  6. What is it? --->
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)."
Horseless Carriage, queues, Chinatown, Size/Location
Dragonwings, Chapter 4