Test #15 - Record: a) your vocabulary homework score (/25), b) your TSSQ score (/30), c) your score on the TS Reading Check (/15), and any extra credit you may have earned this week (+5 min./+10 max.). Attach yesterday's reading check.
Spelling/Roots (25). All do all. Do not copy.
  1. contrast, instatute, statue, statute, all correct
  2. projecter, reject, portable, objective, all correct
  3. superstition, transport, obstacal, reporter, all correct
  4. inject, circumstances, stanza, porter, all correct
  5. interjection, adjective, noun, verb, all correct
  6. deported, departed, subjective, portfolio, all correct
  7. constitution, standard, projectile, substitute, all correct
  8. "between throw thing" = ___________
  9. "against stand thing" = _________
  10. "around stand things" = _________
  11. "out carried" = _____________
  12. "across carry" = ___________
  13. "carry page" = _________
  14. "Wow!" is an example of a(n) _________
  15. A _________ is a law.
  16. (2)  "forward throw thing" = _______
  17. Something that is static does not... a) run. b) stop.  c) move.  d) exist.
 Vocabulary -- Do only #10 if exempt. You will use words more than once, you will not use them all.
amiss, forlorn, canvass earnest, crestfallen, diverge/converge, sinuous, proscribe, precarious, conjecture
  1. The cave was like a labyrinth, full of dead-ends and _____ twists and turns.
  2. The road ___________(ed), and then ____________(ed), forming an "x."
  3. They __________(ed) the neighborhood searching for the lost girl.
  4. This assignment is especially important for him, because his grade (59%) is in a _____ position.
  5. "Two roads __________(ed) in a yellow wood..." I went left.
  6. He has been ________(ly) trying to improve his grade by turning in every assignment.
  7. Many countries ____ television and music. They claim those things are against the laws of Islam.
  8. Gossip often begins with __________, not evidence.
  9. "Tom's cheeks burned. He gathered himself and sneaked off, crushed and ___________.
  10. "Well, you didn't get a lick _________, I reckon. You been in some other audacious mischief, like as not."
Tom Sawyer -- Chapter 15. Below the line are the Chapter 14 questions. Do those only if you didn't complete them yesterday. Attach the page from your notebook if you completed them yesterday.
  1. What can we assume Tom wrote on the note he left in Joe's hat at the end of Chapter 14?
  2. Name a piece of evidence the villagers use to conclude the boys had drowned.
  3. Why does Tom not "capture" the rowboat he uses to get back to the island, even though he's tempted to?
  4. Why does Aunt Polly scold Sid?
  5. What does Tom start to do, and then decide not to do? (Besides capturing the rowboat.)
  6. What does Tom think (due to his superstition) he will get, since the inchworm crawled across him?
  7. Where is the boy's raft now?
  8. (2) The boom the boys hear is ______________, and it means the villagers _____________, and that makes them feel _________.
  9. Why are the boys consciences bothering them at the end of Chapter 14?
  10. BONUS: What is quicksilver?