Wednesday, 2/2/05 -- Early Release Schedule.
Warm Up. Copy.

1. * version : adaptation :: story :  _________
2. * respect : admiration :: motivate : __________
3. * subtract : separate :: add : ____________
4. * miscellaneous : various :: victorious : _________
5. * personality : disposition :: quickness : _______
6. crushed : smote :: crush : ________

Tom Sawyer. Chapter 8

1. Why does Tom envy Jimmy Hodges?
2. When Tom's superstition about his marbles fails, he blames it on...?
3. Which career did Tom contemplate (and discard in disgust) that is not depicted in the illustration?
4. Who is the "Black Avenger of the Spanish Main"?
5. Why won't Tom "fall" (die) when he and Joe are "sword-fighting"?

Correct Vocabulary Homework.
Vocabulary Pretest -- You will not use them all.
alacrity, prone, deduce, covet, lugubrious, palpable, smote, zephyr, frivolity, incantation

1. After working out for a month, he noticed a __________ improvement in his body.
2. I have never seen him smile; he always has the same droopy, _______ expression on his face.
3. "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump (with _________) over the candlestick."
4. After his fight with Becky, Tom was too depressed for the ________ of clowns and circuses.
5. Amy Lawrence was able to ________ from Tom's attitude at Sunday school that she had been dumped.
6. His surgically repaired knee will be _________ to reinjury when he starts playing again.
7. After a short ___________, the magician pulled the rabbit out of his hat.
8. David _________ Goliath with a single stone from his slingshot.
9. Most of us sleep in the __________ position.
10. The 10 Commandments include 2 against __________(ing).

120 seconds (periods 2-4)/Chapter 9 (period 1)