Test #21--Be sure to record any extra credit you may have earned during the week (min. = 5, max. = 10). Record your Dragonwings reading check scores ( /11, /6) and your video quiz score ( /7). Record your vocabulary homework score (/25).  No crossword? -10.  Attach your crossword and your study questions to your completed test.

Spelling. Do what you missed on Monday + #26-#30.

  1. Check the meaning of the word in the dictionery.
  2. Find the appendex in the back of your book.
  3. Is he dependible enough to take care of a dog?
  4. Please don't contredict me.
  5. Buying the tickets will be a big expence.
  6. Will a clock work if its pendulem is stuck?
  7. The weather pradiction calls for warmer weather this week.
  8. His favorite genre is suspence stories.
  9. What compensation will I receive for this job?
  10. The secretary was very good at taking dictaition.
  11. Can we suspend the lamp from that hook?
  12. Actors need good dicton to be understood.
  13. The dictater ruled with an iron hand.
  14. Has the jury reached a veredict?
  15. A dark sky and a change in the direction of the wind are signs of an inpending storm.
  16. Please dispence the food in equal servings.
  17. Getting lost is a serious predictement.
  18. Will he draw a penshion when he retires?
  19. She wore a gold pendent around her neck.
  20. A finger is an appendege.
  21. He was the valedictorien of  his senior class.
  22. The grand jury handed down an inditement of murder in the first degree.
  23. Whether you go to the amusement park or not is dependant on your behavior.
  24. Mr. Morton is the subject of the sentence, and what the predecate says, he does.
  25. The teacher issued an edict; there will be no more pencil borrowing.
  26. "before say thing"
  27. "farewell say person"
  28. "truly say"
  29. "under hang"
  30. "under hang thing"
Vocabulary -- If you are exempt, say so, and do #2 only.
venerate, skeptic, improvise, fastidious, impulse, haughty, forlorn, smug, benevolent, embroider
  1. The teacher was being very ____________ to award that essay an A!
  2. Candy, gum and other similar items are usually displayed right next to the checkout line to encourage you to buy one last item on _________.
  3. White Deer _______(ly) washed his hands and face before dinner.
  4. Uncle is a __________, who has to see it to believe it.
  5. She forgot her lines for the scene, so she had to ____________.
  6. When Uncle sits on his "throne" he has a tendency to make __________ pronouncements.
  7. "That test was easy!" he said________(ly) in that annoying way of his.
  8. villain : hate :: hero : ____________
  9. The lost little girl looked very _________________ as she looked for her mommy.
  10. Even though WR often disagrees with Uncle, he really ___________(s)  the old man.
venerate, skeptic, improvise, fastidious, impulse, haughty, forlorn, smug, benevolent, embroider

Dragonwings. Open book. Open study questions.

  1. The Sleepers was the nickname for the Brotherhood of Eternal Repose.(p68) What does the word repose mean?
  2. (Quote) Why wasn't MS mad at Black Dog for beating him up?
  3. What does WR say that convinces the Tiger General to hand over Black Dog?
  4. Why is Chapter 5 called Windrider's Claws?
  5. (3) "It eats at them; it eats at us."(p83) Who is talking? What is going on? What does he mean?
  6. (3) After the incident with Black Dog and the Sleepers, there was a way that Father and MS could have stayed in Chinatown. What could Father have done? For what two reasons did he want to go and "live among the demons"?
  7. "We travel all the way around the world with it and yet never leave our parlor." What is Miss Whitlaw talking about?
  8. (3) After meeting Miss Whitlaw, Moon Shadow at first thinks she might be a __________ of a ________ ___________.