1. Can you name a sport in which the participants do not know the score, the spectators do not know the score, and no one knows the winner until the contest is over?
2. Using the words DROVES and NEWS write seven words using each letter once.
3. How do you spell Boston backwards?
4. AALLLOUGNINCEACELSSSEANRYTELNETCTEERS If you cross out all unnecessary letters in the above string of letters, a logical sentence will remain. Can you read it?
5. A man dressed entirely in black and wearing a black mask, is standing in the middle of a crossroad. All of the streetlights at the intersection are broken. A car speeds down the road, heading straight for  the man, yet it turns in time and doesn't hit him. The lights of the car were not on. How does the car manage to miss him?

Eight Grade Only: Finish Pearl Essay:
Use a separate sheet for your answer. Counts for 600 words. Due EOP.
Pick one. Write a well organized 4-5 paragraph essay. Underline your thesis or main point in your first paragraph.

1. At the beginning, Steinbeck tells us that The Pearl is a parable with meaning that "everyone reads his own life" into. Clearly explain one lesson that is contained in The Pearl that applies to your own life. Give examples and details and quotes from the novel to back up what you say.
2. Analyze the causes and effects of the novel. Show how one event leads to another. Show how the entire course of things could/would be changed if one or more of these events had happened differently.
3. Pick one important symbol in The Pearl, and show its importance to the story. Using examples and quotes show why the symbol is important and how Steinbeck uses it to teach a lesson.
4. Steinbeck tells us this parable is about good and evil, black and white, and no in-between. Show how he uses the symbols of dark and light to illustrate his story. Show at least three places where dark and light images are connected to good and evil, and how these help the story.

• Intro paragraph has a clear thesis.
• Organized well.
• Uses quotes and specific examples.
• Each quote or example is well explained.
• 350 + words.
• Mechanics. 4+ paragraphs.