Test #12 Be sure to: a) Use a separate
sheet of paper, b) include heading and title, c) record any extra credit
you may have earned this week--1/7 -1/10--cross off 4, the max is 10, d)
record your score on "Thank You M'am"-- /11 on 1/09, and e)
record your vocabulary homework score ( /25).
Spelling (25)
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A bright flaim burned in the campfire.
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Keep flammeable fabrics away from heat.
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Use a match to ignight the wood.
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A car needs fuel for the ignetion to
work.
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Gold was discovered at this presice spot.
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A jewel must be cut with careful precison.
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Is a metere longer than a yard?
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The metrick system is one way of measuring.
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This micrascope magnifies the smallest
items.
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This bug is so tiny it is almost micrascopic.
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I knew it was serious by his grave
look.
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The gravety of the problem had us worried.
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I am gratefull for your help with my
report.
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He showed his gratetude by giving me
a gift.
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She will revize her essay to make it
shorter.
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This revison will improve your story.
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Our best athalete plays football and
baseball.
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Exercise often if you want an atheletic
body.
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Our town humaine society cares for
stray cats.
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All humanaty will benefit from the
new drug.
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One scoop of ice cream will be sufficent
for dessert.
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One scoop of ice cream will suffice.
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A lack of practice will impeade your
progress.
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A lack of practice will be an impedement.
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I heard the boom of the explostion.
(10) Vocabulary. If you are
exempt, skip this section, writing "exempt." You will use a word more than
once. You will not use them all. pungent, splendor, peruse, circuitous,
emanate, gaunt, steep, dilapidated, squalor, destitute
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Before you sign anything, be sure to
_____________ it very carefully.
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Even though he was so ____________
that it looked like he hadn’t eaten in weeks, he still had a menacing attitude
that made him seem like a very formidable adversary.
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For best results, ________ your teabag
for at least five minutes.
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"…He told me his name was Jefferson
Johnson Stone, and I was awed by the _____________ of the name...
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(2) ...coming from someone so ______________
in, and surrounded by, ________________ and poverty...
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(2) With a name like that, he should
own the world and stride the streets like a king," and not have a family
who is ________ and living in a _________ old house.
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The ___________ smell of onions filled
the house.
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Robert, trying to hide his friendship
with Jeff, always took a ___________ route to his house.
(10) Langston Hughes
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(3) re: "Delinquent": Who are the delinquents?
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re: "Mother to Son": (Quote) What is
her advice for her son?
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re: "Mother to Son": Why is the word
bare on a line by itself?
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(2) re: "Thank You M'am": What are
Roger's two main conflicts? (internal: Roger vs himself over _____________.
external: Roger vs ____________)
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re: "Thank You M'am" and poem after:
Who is the "fainting Robin"?
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(2) re: The Langston Hughes excerpt
below.
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a) The bold-faced portion is called
a __________.
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b) Which character from The Outsiders
best demonstrates the idea of the poem?
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-wing bird
That cannot fly.