Wednesday, 1/7/04 -- Eighth Grade
Warm Up. Copy 1-4.
  1. *"before put thing" = ___________
  2. *"against put 'ish'" = __________
  3. *fire : conflagration :: debris : ___________
  4. *agree : differ :: concrete : __________
  5. Most of the vocabulary words (70%) this week are... a) nouns.  b) verbs.  c) adjectives.  d) adverbs.
  6. This is different that it usually is. Usually our vocabulary list is mostly made up of...a) nouns.  b) verbs.  c) adjectives.  d) adverbs.
    Answer #7-8 with a pair of spelling words that share the same root. Example: What is a machine that gets rid of suggestions? Answer: proposal disposal.  Both 7 and 8 will also share a word.
  7. What is a productive source of information?
  8. What is a favorite encyclopedia? (This one rhymes, and the order matters.)
Correct Vocabulary homework. +1 for each of the two mistakes you found and fixed!
Vocabulary Pretest. You will use word(s) more than once. You might not use them all. flounder, enumerate, surmount, flotsam, pall, contrive, yaw, superimpose, juxtapose, conflagration
  1. After the death of two students in an accident, there was a __________ of sadness over the school.
  2. (4) After the shipwreck, the sea was full of ____________(ing) passengers clutching at __________, trying to stay afloat, and the ship was one big _____________, which cast a ___________ over the whole tragic scene.
  3. On the cover of one issue, TV Guide _______________(ed) the head of Oprah on the body of a much slimmer model.
  4. For the photo, we ________(ed) the horse and the cowboy with the sunset in the background.
  5. Can you _________ at least three of the four methods that authors use to develop a character?
  6. The mad scientist fiddled with his latest _________(ance).
  7. (3) If you don't keep up with the homework, you will ___________ in that class, and get behind a pile of work that you will never ___________, so you should ask your teacher to kindly ___________ all the assignments you have already missed.
Apostrophes (+1 for each sentence correct.) There will be one where you also have to add the s.
  1. The man whose face was tan said that he had spent his two weeks vacation in the mountains.
  2. It was James hat that fell in the snow.
  3. Its important that the kitten learns to find its way home.
  4. In three weeks time well have to begin school again.
  5. All three of the neighbors dogs cries were mournful, but ours didn't join in the howling. (1 neighbor, 3 dogs.)
"The King of Mazy May" p59 in paperback.
Characterization. What are the four methods a writer can use to develop a character?
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Read p60-64, doing all the blue margin activities. Be sure to write down your prediction about what Walt will do. Also look for which of the methods of characterization Jack London uses.