Wednesday, 12/10/08 - Checking: Vocabulary, IRW 362-363
Warm Up. Click and Copy.
  1. "before say thing"  =   a) projector  b) projectile  c) prediction  d) contradict  e) indictment
  2. "around stand things" =  a) superstitions  b) obstacles  c) substitutes  d) circumstances  e) constitutions
  3. "under stand person" =  a) substitute  b) valedictorian  c) predicate  d) statue  e) institute
  4. "together throw thing" =  a) adjective  b) interjection  c) projectile  d) projector  e) dictionary
  5. "forward thrower" =  a) projectile  b) projector  c) interjection  d) adjective  e) predicament
  6. subject : predicate :: _____ : verdict  a) predicament  b) projectile  c) prediction  d) contradict  e) indictment
Possessive (Mini) Pretest II.
  1. _______ switchblade   a) Thomas'  b) Thomas's
  2. the _______ hats   a) men's  b) mens'  c) mens's
  3. one _______ save  a) goalies'  b) goalie's  c) goalies's
  4. an old _______ tale  a) wifes' b) wives'  c) wive's  d) wives's


IRW p362-363.

  1. Taste buds are examples of receptors. a) True  b) False
  2. A neuron is a type of...  a) cell  b) organ  c) receptor  d) cytoplasm  e)NOTA
  3. The nerves that connect the arms and legs with the spinal cord are part of the _______ nervous system.  a) peripheral   b) branch  c) lower  d) central  e) NOTA
  4. The science article on p363 compares the nervous system to a ______. a) car  b) brain  c) television  d) computer  e) NOTA
  5. Which of these is NOT something this lesson will teach?  a) What an impulse is.  b) The difference between the central and peripheral nervous systems.  c) How the brain works.  d) How neurons do their job.  e) All of these will be taught.
  6. This is a diagram of a neuron. Identify #1.  a) cytoplasm  b) dendrites  c) peripheral cells  d) receptors  e) NOTA
  7. Your skin could be considered one giant sense organ.  a) True.  b) False.
  8. When you remember what a verb is, you are using your peripheral nervous system.  a) True.  b) False.
  9. At the end of this lesson, there will be a lab.  a) True.  b) False.
  10. The "signal words" in an article like this will probably show order or categories.  a) True  b) False
Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. You might use words more than once. You might not use them all.
  1. Esteban's project was almost finished, and then his mother started to _________ with it. He was up all night fixing it.  a) flounder  b) whorl  c) meddle  d) meander  e) bustle
  2. Jane the Midwife ___________(ed)  into the room and took charge of the situation.  a) meander  b) flounder  c) compendium  d) meddle  e) bustle
  3. Sometimes the __________ of a cure lies in the mind of the person who believes it will work.  a) conscientious  b) efficacy  c) revelry  d) compendium  e) ample
  4. From the author's description, Grommet Smith has a rather _____________ figure.  a) conscientious  b) efficacy  c) revelry  d) bustle  e) ample
  5. He wasn't a very ______ student so his grades were not very good.  a) conscientious  b) efficacy  c) revelry  d) meander  e) ample
  6. The field full of flowers was a ________ of color as the wind blew them this way and that.  a) flounder  b) whorl  c) meddle  d) meander  e) bustle
  7. Unless you leave Laguna with some good reading skills, you will ________ in high school.   a) meander  b) flounder  c) compendium  d) meddle  e) bustle
  8. The holiday season is a time for ________ and for quiet family gatherings.  a) flounder  b) efficacy  c) meddle  d) meander  e) revelry
  9. The road  "__________(ed) easterly and northerly until it ended in the glory that was St. Swithin's Day Fair."   a) flounder  b) bustle  c) meddle  d) meander  e) revelry
  10. exact : approximate  ::  nonchalant : _____   a) bustle  b) conscientious  c) revelry  d) meander  e) ample

 
 
 

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