Pretest #7 -- Spelling. In your notebook, write the correct spelling of each boldfaced, underlined word. Some are already correct, most are not. Also be on the lookout for any other mechanical mistakes to fix for extra credit.
  1. The police will investagate the accident.
  2. Careful investagaton will reveal the answer.
  3. Can you detect the smell of burning wood?
  4. Wolves walk softly to escape detection.
  5. You will have consaquences if you vialate the rules.
  6. Speeding is a traffic violation.
  7. I will exibit my sheep at the county fair.
  8. The school has an exabition of student art.
  9. Were you trained to opperate this machine?
  10. I need the opperation to fix my injured knee.
  11. Use a copy machine to duplacate the form.
  12. I ordered a duplacation of that photo for you.
  13. The coach will evaluate your hockey skills.
  14. Be sure to turn in the evalation sheet with your final draft.
  15. Let everyone partisapate in the discussion.
  16. We need your partisipation in the discussion.
  17. Please copy and puncuate this sentence said Mr. Coward
  18. Commas and periods are puncuation marks.
  19. Let's congradulate the winners of the spelling bee.
  20. I will send my congradalations to the happy couple.
  21. If you conect the dots, you will make a doggy.
  22. When you read, try to make a connection to your own life.
  23. If everyone coperates, we can get done faster.
  24. This will take everyones coperation.
  25. If you beggin with action, the reader will want to read more.
  26. The best place to start a story is not always the begginning.
  27. Where is the best place to situate the house?
  28. It was a desperate situation.
Vocabulary. Definition, POS --in notebook-- fill in blanks, due Wednesday.
divine, discerning, stark, prevail, demur, lurid, revoke, restitution, impertinent, brood(v)
"Poem #435" by Emily Dickinson

Much Madness is ________(est) Sense--
To a ___________ Eye--
Much Sense--the _______(est) Madness--
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, _________--
Assent--and you are sane--
_________ --you're straightway dangerous--
And handled with a Chain--

6) Quit asking _____________ questions and stay focused.
7) Everyone was shocked by the ___________ details of the murder.
8) After his brother died, he sat ___________ (ing)  in his room, blaming himself.
9) After he was caught stealing, he was forced to make __________ for what he stole.
10)  They __________(ed) his driver's license when he was arrested for DUI.