Wednesday, 11/20/02
Shtuff. Copy #1-#5 into notebook. #6 is a preview of Friday's spelling test. #7-#9 are a mini-quiz. #10 is a paragraph scramble, and counts for 600 words--write it out!
  1. *tiny : prodigious :: enthusiastic : _______
  2. *reptile : iguana :: fruit : __________
  3. *rice : beans :: meat : ___________
  4. *vanilla : chocolate :: fiesta : _______
  5. ecstatic : apathetic :: ecstasy : _______
  6. guerrilla, tortilla, burrow, burro, all correct 
  7. "He was moved to capture the skiff, arguing that it might be considered a ship, and therefore legitimate prey for a pirate, but he knew a thorough search would be made for it and that might end in revelations." (p105b, p97w) Why did Tom not "capture the skiff"?
  8. What did the note Tom left behind in camp say?
  9. (5) What are the three things Tom mentions to try to get the boys to want to stay on the island? When those don't work, he tries...? Does that work?(p108-109b, p100-101w)
  10. (55w) a) Tom's thoughts grew more worrisome.  b) The hooting of a distant owl was all the sound that troubled the dead stillness. *c) They waited in silence for what seemed like a long time. d) So he said in a whisper, "Hucky, do you believe the dead people like it for us to be here?" e) He must force some talk.
Correct vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. bliss, fickle, apathetic, prodigious, magnanimous, palpable, wary, lugubrious
  1. Baseball fans became pretty __________ after the season was cut short by a strike. It was hard to care any more.
  2. The couple had enjoyed 50 years of wedded ___________.
  3. He hit a ___________ home run. It was at least 500 feet long.
  4. Luck is ___________; one day you have it all good, and the next it's all bad.
  5. The orphanage thanked the man for his ____________ donation.
  6. Tom _______(ily) snuck through the door and under the bed.
  7. After working out for a month, he noticed a __________ improvement in his body.
  8. By defintion, a ghost would not be ____________.
  9. I have never seen him smile; he always has the same droopy, ______ expression on his face.
  10. One of the reasons Aunt Polly tried the Painkiller was that Tom was so ___________ about all the other treatments. "This indifference must be broken up at any cost."
Tom Sawyer aloud.
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