Thursday, 5/29/03

Warm Up.

  1. What is the only part of speech that has a past, present, and future? These are called...?
  2. Adjective or Adverb? She was very friendly to me.
  3. Adjective or Adverb? This recipe calls for coarsely ground nuts.
  4. True or False? In the following sentence, the word my is an adjective: He is my bear.
  5. What is your problem? What is used as a(n)__________.
  6. (?) Name the verb(s) in the following sentence: Matt is a young musician who broke his big trombone.
Reading Check (10). Be sure to answer #4 using a complete sentence.
  1. (5) Name at least five duties that Beetle performs for Jane the Midwife.
  2. (3) Give three examples that show that Beetle is not as stupid as Jane the Midwife would like to believe.
  3. Why do the villagers dislike Jane the Midwife?
  4. Why do you think Beetle saved the cat?(Don't say she felt sorry for it.)
The Midwife's Apprentice