Thursday, 11/04/04
Warm Up. Copy 1-5. For 6-8, write out the best answer based on the poem by Emily Dickinson. All are worth +1.

1. * prevail : triumph :: picky : __________
2. * ignore : participation :: separate : _________
3. * boring : lurid :: subtle : _________
4. * subtraction : addition :: innovation : ____________
5. * environmental : genetic :: forget : ___________
6. Emily Dickinson felt that "the Majority" always prevailed on the question of...a) What is the right thing to do. b) Who's weird and who isn't. c) Who's cool and who isn't. d) Who's important and who isn't. e) All of the above.
7. The poem says that if a person looked very carefully...a) He would see that everyone is weird. b) He would see that what might look weird really isn't. c) He would see that what might seem sane really isn't. d) All of the above. e) b and c.
8. The poem says that if you disagree with the majority...a) You're weird. b) You're stupid. c) You're considered dangerous. d) You're doing the right thing.
9. (+1 if you share, +2 if I like it.) Try to connect "Poem #435" to The Outsiders (in a literary way, of course). How could we relate Emily Dickinson's messsage with S. E. Hinton's?

Possessive Nouns. p38
The Outsiders, chapter 9 - 10.  Chapter 9
Chapter 10

1. How does Ponyboy get home from the hospital?
2. When Pony told the rest of the gang how Dally ran out of the hospital, they...a) were all shocked, b) said they knew it would happen, c) realized that there were some things that affected even Dally, d) none of the above.
3. Pony's injuries after the rumble included...a) shock, b) exhaustion, c) concussion, d) all of the above, e) none of the above.
4. Why is Dally's death almost sadder than Johnny's? a) He didn't deserve it.  b) We had finally seen Dally as a human being. c) Because he was shot by the police. d) All of the above.
5. What was the reason Pony gave for not wanting to eat while he was sick?
6. "But I knew that was what Dally wanted...and he always got what he wanted." (p134)  Did he really always get what he wanted? Explain.
7. Was Dallas Winston gallant? Use an example or two from the book to back up what you say.