Wednesday, 5/2/07 -- Early Release Schedule
Warm Up. Click A if the question is a good research-type question. Click B if it is not.

1. Why is the sky blue?
2. Do dolphins communicate with each other?
3. Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
4. What's the fastest car ever, and how did it go that fast?
5. Should I buy a plasma, an LCD, or an HD tv?
6. How many kinds of candy are there?
7. How do they make cd's?
8. How do I become a zookeeper?
9. What is a ghost?

Go over Vocabulary Homework.   |   Vocabulary Pretest. No Cheat Sheet.

1. After Charlotte asked to be a part of the crew, they _____ amongst themselves, and decided that if she climbed to the royal yard, she would be allowed to sign on.  a) edified  b) caucused  c) rebuffed  d) reproved  e) cowed
2. Dorothy and her little dog Toto were carried off to Oz by the _________.  a) tract  b) gumption  c) thwart  d) maelstrom  e) rebuff
3. Jaggery _______ Charlotte's efforts to apologize.  a) edified  b) caucused  c) rebuffed  d) reproved  e) cowed
4. People say New Yorkers are very ____, almost rude, and always in a hurry.  a) thwart  b) edified  c) cowed  d) gumption  e) brusque
5. When Tom Sawyer's whole town "got religion," even Huck was seen giving out religious ______(s) to people.  a) thwart  b) maelstrom  c) tract  d) caucused  e) rebuff
6. Jaggery told Hollybrass to whip Zachariah "with strength," or else to "stand aside for someone who has the _____."  a) brusqueness  b) maelstrom  c) edification  d) gumption  e) thwart
7. People read both for pleasure and _____.   a) brusqueness  b) maelstrom  c) edification  d) gumption  e) tracts
8. Before they walked on the field, the team was already _____ by the thought of how big and intimidating the other team was.   a) brusqued  b) cowed  c) edified  d) rebuffed  e) thwarted
9. If you crashed the car, Mom would probably do much more than just _____ you. a) reprove  b) rebuff  c) thwart  d) caucus  e) edify
10. His attempt to climb Mt. Everest was _______(ed) by bad weather, which forced him to turn back.  a) reproved  b) rebuffed  c) thwarted  d) caucused  e) edified

Charlotte Quiz (Chapter 13)

1. Foley compliments Charlotte by calling her a pretty girl. a) True  b) False
2. Ewing's advice to Charlotte about climbing the ropes is to keep looking at the ropes the whole time she's climbing. a) True  b) False
3. As she gets ready to climb, the crew is hoping she will fail so they don't have to take her on as a crew member. a) True  b) False
4. After she started climbing, Charlotte realized she had made a mistake by choosing to climb using the ratlines instead of shimmying up the mast itself. a) True  b) False
5. Charlotte fell on her way back down.  a) True  b) False
6. The crew is still not satisfied when Charlotte comes back down.  a) True  b) False