Wednesday, 12/15/04 -- Early Release.
Warm Up. Copy (1-4) into notebook.
  1. * grocery : store :: fence : ________
  2. * nursery : primary :: _________ : secondary
  3. * school : schedule :: vacation : _________
  4. * explanation : theory :: counterfeit : ________
  5. "People were delighted with him." DO, IO, OP?
  6. "He could fool them easily." DO, IO, OP?
  7. "They gladly paid him their money." DO, IO, OP?
  8. "PT Barnum sewed a monkey's head to a fish's body and called her the Feejee Mermaid." ANTECEDENT?
Correct Vocabulary Homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. You will use words more than once, you will not use them all.
treachery, derogatory, disconsolate, croon, dynamo, flourish, pallid, indiscriminate, compensate, idiosyncrasy, antecedent
  1. Everyone has at least one ____________ that might seem weird to other people.
  2. The game of Survivor is full of ___________ and back-stabbing.
  3. exposed : buried : complimentary : ____________
  4. Make sure that, on your pink sheet, you don't just ____________(ly) underline every pronoun you see. Make sure you mark only the type of pronoun asked for.
  5. After Maggie's son died she was ___________.
  6. The wedding singer _________(ed) a love song at the reception.
  7. His face was as __________ as the ghost he thought he saw.
  8. Vanna White turned the letters with a ___________.
  9. (2) True or False. In sentence #5, the word son is the __________ of  Maggie.
  10. (2) After all that hard work, his only ___________(ion) turned out to be a "Good job," and he was __________ about that for a long time.
"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"