Thursday, 2/17/04 -- Music: "Old Hundred." This is the hymn the people sang at the boys' funeral.
Warm Up. (Finally!)
  1. (5) When you look up a verb in the dictionary, it will show something like this: (vt) or (vi). (vt)means that the verb is a)___________, which means it has a b) ____________, something that receives the action. (vi) means that the verb is c) ______________, which means it won't have a d) ____________  or a e) _____________ (something for whom the action is done). But it might be followed by an f)______________.
  2. (?) ID the verb, the DO, IO, and/or ADV:  Mr. Coward gave Dylan detention for rudeness.
Last chance for questions and fixin's before we...Correct Green Sheet.
Reading Check. (9)
  1. (2) The boys had two reasons to be thankful after the big storm. What were they?
  2. What made it an "extremely satisfactory day" playing Indians? 
  3. (2) "Two of the savages almost wished they had remained pirates." (p116b, p106w) Explain what this means.
  4. (2) "Well, Tom Sawyer, he licked me once." (p 118b, 109w) Why did this person say this? Why was no one impressed?
  5. (2) "Tom got more cuffs and kisses that day -- according Aunt Polly's varying moods -- than he had earned before in a year..." (Last paragraph of Chapter 17.) Draw the pictures at right, and fill in the talk balloons appropriately.
Correct Vocabulary Homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. You will use one word twice. You will not use them all.
swagger, sullen, inundate, conflagration, rank, repentant, becoming, serene, vivacious, sham
  1. After he was arrested for fighting, the soldier was reprimanded for "conduct (un)________ an officer."
  2. "Every pore inside the boys cheeks became a spouting fountain; they could scarcely bail out the cellars under their tongues fast enough to prevent a(n) ________________(ion)."
  3. The ________ was helped along by the presence of many old gasoline cans in the warehouse.
  4. The cemetery was old, run-down, and ___________.
  5. Even as the class went wild, the sub sat _________(ly) in her chair, smiling and doing nothing.
  6. After he realized how much he hurt Aunt Polly, Tom was genuinely ___________.
  7. (2) When Tom returned from "the dead," he walked with a cocky ___________, which he thought was __________ for a "pirate" like himself.
  8. (2) When she saw Tom talking to Amy, Becky was "disturbed and uneasy." She wanted to make him jealous. So she pretended to be happy, and "she said to a girl almost at Tom's elbow -- with _________  ________(ity), "Why Mary Austin...!