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)
  1. A bright flaim burned in the campfire.
  2. Keep flammeable fabrics away from heat.
  3. Use a match to ignight the wood.
  4. A car needs fuel for the ignetion to work.
  5. Gold was discovered at this presice spot.
  6. A jewel must be cut with careful precison.
  7. Is a metere longer than a yard?
  8. The metrick system is one way of measuring.
  9. This micrascope magnifies the smallest items.
  10. This bug is so tiny it is almost micrascopic.
  11. I knew it was serious by his grave look.
  12. The gravety of the problem had us worried.
  13. I am gratefull for your help with my report.
  14. He showed his gratetude by giving me a gift.
  15. She will revize her essay to make it shorter.
  16. This revison will improve your story.
  17. Our best athalete plays football and baseball.
  18. Exercise often if you want an atheletic body.
  19. Our town humaine society cares for stray cats.
  20. All humanaty will benefit from the new drug.
  21. One scoop of ice cream will be sufficent for dessert.
  22. One scoop of ice cream will suffice.
  23. A lack of practice will impeade your progress.
  24. A lack of practice will be an impedement.
  25. 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
  1. Before you sign anything, be sure to _____________ it very carefully.
  2. 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.
  3. For best results, ________ your teabag for at least five minutes.
  4.  "…He told me his name was Jefferson Johnson Stone, and I was awed by the _____________ of the name...
  5. (2) ...coming from someone so ______________ in, and surrounded by,  ________________ and poverty...
  6. (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.
  7. The ___________ smell of onions filled the house.
  8. Robert, trying to hide his friendship with Jeff, always took a ___________ route to his house.

 
 

(10) Langston Hughes

  1. (3) re: "Delinquent": Who are the delinquents?
  2. re: "Mother to Son": (Quote) What is her advice for her son?
  3. re: "Mother to Son": Why is the word bare on a line by itself?
  4. (2) re: "Thank You M'am": What are Roger's two main conflicts? (internal: Roger vs himself over _____________. external: Roger vs ____________)
  5. re: "Thank You M'am" and poem after: Who is the "fainting Robin"?
  6. (2) re: The Langston Hughes excerpt below.

  7. Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die,
    Life is a broken-wing bird
    That cannot fly.