Wednesday, 11/19/03 -- Seventh Grade
Warm Up. Copy into notebook.
  1. *serious : dire :: furtive : __________
  2. *Boy Scout : miscreant :: congratulate : _________
  3. *books : literature :: stuff : __________
  4. The Outsiders : Tulsa :: Tom Sawyer : _____
  5. Pony : "chicken" :: Huck : "_________"
  6. Dally : "heater" :: Muff Potter : "_________"
Correct vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest.  You will use some words more than once.
dire, prophecy, writhe, rebuke, clandestine, miscreant, ostentatious, soliloquy, repulsive, vagrant
  1. "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" is a line from a famous __________ by Juliet on her balcony. (Bonus: What does Juliet's line mean? Hint: Wherefore doesn't mean where.)
  2. Aunt Polly __________(ly) watched the bottle of Painkiller to make sure Tom was taking it.
  3. When Tom came down late for breakfast..."there was no voice of _________, but there were averted eyes." (Aunt Polly was "guilting" him instead of punishing him.)
  4. (2) According to the superstition, a stray dog's howl is a _____  ____ of death.
  5. Tom ________(ed) around in his sleep as he dreamed of the murder in the graveyard.
  6. Her huge earrings were too __________ for the funeral.
  7. (2) The _________ and smelly _________ was last seen accosting people and demanding money outside the liquor store.
  8. "...for plainly this ______ had sold himself to Satan and it would be fatal to meddle" with him.
  9. "I wonder if I should?" I ____________(ized).
  10. "The man moaned, ________(ed) a little, and his face came into the moonlight. It was Muff Potter."
Tom Sawyer (Closed book. As an experiment. 5p)
  1.  "It's blood, it's blood, that's what it is!"  a) Tom, swearing not to tell about Injun Joe.  b) Sid, telling Tom what he heard Tom say in his sleep.  c) Huck, worried that Injun Joe will kill them if he finds out.  d) Tom, telling the sheriff what he saw in the graveyard.
  2. Who is Peter?
  3. "Because if he'd 'a had one, she'd 'a burnt him one herself!"  a) Tom, telling the cat what Aunt Polly would do to him for getting caught not taking Painkiller.  b) Tom, telling Aunt Polly that he doesn't like the medicine.  c) Tom, wondering why Aunt Polly is worried about the effects of Painkiller on the cat, but not about its effect on him.  d) None of the above.
  4. "Mf! Some people think they're smart -- always showing off!"  a) Tom.  b) Aunt Polly.  c) Sid.  d) Becky.
  5. Tom and Joe are running away because they both feel that they have been...
Tom Sawyer aloud.