Wednesday, 2/1/06 -- Early Release Schedule
Warm Up. Copy into notebook with title and date.
  1. * respect : admiration :: motivate : __________
  2. * miscellaneous : various :: victorious : _________
  3. * force : impose :: change : _________
  4. * save : dispose :: upright : ________
  5. * personality : disposition :: quickness : _______
  6. crushed : smote :: crush : ________
Correct Vocabulary Homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. You might use words more than once. You won't use them all.
alacrity, prone, deduce, covet, lugubrious, palpable, smote, zephyr, frivolity, incantation, eloquent, fickle
  1. After working out for a month, he noticed a __________ improvement in his body.
  2. I have never seen him smile; he always has the same droopy, _______ expression on his face.
  3. "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump (with ________) over the candlestick."
  4. Tom : audacious :: Two-Bit : _________
  5. After his fight with Becky, Tom was too depressed for the ________ of clowns and circuses.
  6. Amy Lawrence was able to ________ from Tom's attitude at Sunday school that she had been dumped.
  7. His surgically repaired knee will be _________ to re-injury when he starts playing again.
  8. After a short ___________, the magician pulled the rabbit out of his hat.
  9. David _________ Goliath with a single stone from his slingshot.
  10. Most of us sleep in the __________ position.
  11. Luck is _______; one day you have it all good, and the next, it's all bad.
  12. The 10 Commandments include 2 against __________(ing).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tom Sawyer. (13) Open book. Open study questions. Closed neighbor.

  1. Why did Doc Robinson hit Injun Joe?  a) Joe hit him in the face.  b) Joe wanted more money. c) Joe attacked him with a knife.  d) Joe was threatening revenge for something in the past.
  2. (Quote) Why did Muff Potter attack Doc Robinson?
  3. (7) 

  4. (A-G) Label the above "illustration."
  5. (4) 

  6. Explain what's happening here. Who are the three men? Why does one appear to be begging or praying?
  7. BONUS for EXTRA CREDIT: What's a sawbones? (p67b)