Test 16. Record your scores on the TS Reading checks. (/6, /14), any extra credit you may have earned this week (+4 min./+10 max.). No crossword? -10.
Spelling/Prefixes
  1. ANTONYM, antiseptic, admission, abuse, all correct
  2. absorb, absolute, ADJUSTMENT, administer, all correct
  3. abominable, abdominal, postdate, ANTAGONIZE, all correct
  4. antifreeze, adviser, advisor, absence, ALL CORRECT
  5. postgraduate, postscript, adept, ABSOLVED, all correct
  6. antagonist, ADMINISTRATION, postpone, abnormal, all correct
  7. * "away from standard" = ABNORMAL
  8. * "opposite name"  = ANTONYM
  9. * "near/toward/close to equal"= ADEQUATE
  10. * "away from lead" = ABDUCT
  11. * chest : pectoral :: stomach : ABDOMINAL
  12. * "close to seer"  = ADVISOR
  13. * "after writing" = POSTSCRIPT
  14. * "away from feel" = ABSENCE
Tom Sawyer.
  1. WELCOME. Until the Welshman said it, what word had Huck never heard directed at him before?
  2. (3) SUNDAY MORNING, CHURCH, MRS. THATCHER ASKS ABOUT BECKY When/Where/How are Tom and Becky discovered missing?
  3. (2) HAIR RIBBON, TOM+BECKY IN SMOKE What two signs of Becky and Tom do the searchers find in the cave?
  4. 3 DAYS At the end of Chapter 30, how long have Tom and Becky been in the cave?
  5. WHISKEY What was discovered in the Temperance Tavern?
  6. HE'S SICK Why doesn't Huck know Tom is lost in the cave?
Pink Sheet. (Verb Tenses). Pick THE BEST form of the verb for each sentence.
  1. Over the ages, ship builders (are trying, will try, have tried, tried) many different designs.
  2. Before the Roman days, the Greeks (had builded, built, build, will build) ships called triremes.
  3. Crew members of today's ships should be happy that none of them (had been asked, were asked, are asked, would be asked) to row their ships.
  4. (2) Some of the earliest boats today's historians (knew, had known, know, knowed) about (were, are, would be, is) dugout canoes.
Vocabulary. Do only #7 if "exempt." You will use words more than once, you will not use them all.
grisly, forsake, attrition, rollicking, jaded, countenance, convey, fresco, shanty, throng, absolve
  1. (3) The man had a JADED  COUNTENANCE, with lines and wrinkles that CONVEYED lifetime of hard living.
  2. The boys didn't say anything, but their looks and gestures CONVEYED a lot.
  3. Injun Joe has GRISLY plans for revenge.
  4. Huck was very JADED after his adventures with Injun Joe.
  5. Many reggae singers sing of growing up in the poor SHANTY-towns of Jamaica.
  6. Historians call WWI a war of ATTRITION where each side simply wanted to do as much damage as possible to the other side.
  7. "Please don't FORSAKE me, oh my darlin' !"
  8. To Tom, the adventure of the treasure is a ROLLICKING good time, but to Huck, it's serious business.