Pretest #9 -- Seventh Grade
  1. I ran across the broad plaza to the hotel.
  2. Will there be music and games at the feesta?
  3. Please fill my tortila with chicken.
  4. A short seesta is nice after a busy morning.
  5. A donkey and a burroe carried our gear.
  6. He threw a pancho across his shoulders.
  7. A sombraro has a broad brim to shade the body.
  8. I slept in the hamock hanging on the porch.
  9. I love peach ice cream and choclate.
  10. A ripe red tomatoe is great in salads.
  11. May I have extra sauce on my cheese enchilada.
  12. A buritoe can be filled with meat and beans.
  13. The allagator is one very scary reptile!
  14. The mine produced a bonanza of gold.
  15.  We ate lunch outside on the shady pateo.
  16. The huge ship hauled a cargoe of trucks
  17. I love spicy chile con carne topped with onions.
  18. Would a cup of cocoe help to warm you up?
  19. Add vanila to the batter for extra flavor.
  20. An igwana looks like a small dinosaur.
  21. He likes to eat bake potatos.
  22. The giant sequoia is an anshent tree.
  23. His car has a custum  paint job.
  24. There is still an embargoe on trade with Cuba.
  25. In Vietnam the army faced gorilla tactics.
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.