Thursday, 2/16/06
Warm Up. Paragraph Scramble. Turn into two short paragraphs. ID the topic sentence in each. Indent, etc.
(60 words toward 600.)
  1. Chile is wedged between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains.
  2. Located in western South America, Chile is a long, narrow piece of land 2600 miles long and 118 miles wide.
  3. Chile exports copper to many countries.
  4. The main source of Chile's income is from copper.
  5. This makes the country very dependent upon changes in the world price of copper.
  6. Its terrain is mountainous.
Tom Sawyer
  1. (2) "Well, Tom Sawyer, he licked me once." (p118) Why did this person say this? Why was no one impressed?
  2. (2) "Tom got more cuffs and kisses that day -- according Aunt Polly's varying moods -- than he had earned before in a year..." (Last paragraph of Chapter 17.) Draw the pictures at right, and fill in the talk balloons appropriately.
  3. How did the boys get back from the island? a) a raft.  b) swam.  c) a stolen rowboat  d) a log.  e) all of the above.  f) none of the above.
  4. "It ain't much -- a cat does that much." a) care.  b) eat.  c) dream.  d) play. e) all of the above.
  5. "There must 'a' been an angel there." a) Aunt Polly, about Tom's dream.  b) Aunt Polly, about how an angel must have kept Tom safe.  c) Sid, about Tom's dream.  d) the minister, about the boys' adventure.
  6. What makes Tom feel like the "guiltiest of villains"?
  7. "Shut up, Sid."  a) Tom.  b) Aunt Polly.  c) Mary.  d) Joe Harper.  e) none of the above.
Correct Test #15. | Go Over Vocabulary Homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. You will use one word twice. It's ok to misspell the last word.
swagger, sullen, inundate, conflagration, rank, repentant, becoming, serene, vivacious, sham
  1. After he was arrested for fighting, the soldier was reprimanded for "conduct (un)____________ an officer."
  2. "Every pore inside the boys cheeks became a spouting fountain; they could scarcely bail out the cellars under their tongues fast enough to prevent a(n) ________________(ion)."
  3. The ________ was helped along by the presence of many old gasoline cans in the warehouse.
  4. The cemetery was old, run-down, and ___________.
  5. Even as the class went wild, the sub sat _________(ly) in her chair, smiling and doing nothing.
  6. After he realized how much he hurt Aunt Polly, Tom was genuinely ___________.
  7. (2) When Tom returned from "the dead," he walked with a cocky ___________, which he thought was __________ for a "pirate" like himself.
  8. The student sat ______(ly) outside Mr. Anderson's office, muttering about how "lame all this is."
  9. (2) When she saw Tom talking to Amy, Becky was "disturbed and uneasy." She wanted to make him jealous. So she pretended to be happy and lively, and "she said to a girl almost at Tom's elbow -- with _________  ________(ity), "Why Mary Austin...!
Tom Sawyer Aloud.