Tuesday, 2/3/09
New SSI Policy! You must get 70% for the week, including TS quizzes AND Friday's test.
Warm Up. Click and copy. I check study questions from SSI people.
  1. "again loosened" =    a) soluble  b) resolved  c) congested  d) digested  e) dissolved
  2. "beneath (less than) judge" =  a  ) periscope  b) soluble  c) critique  d) hypocrite  e) criticism
  3. "into cut thing" =   a) scissors  b) digestion  c) incision  d) critique  e) infraction
  4. "mindful stuff" =    a) memoir  b) designate  c) memorabilia  d) critique  e) criticism
  5. autobiography : memoir :: contest : _______   a) resolve  b) dissolve  c) decisive  d) competition  e) congestion
  6. briefly : temporary :: forever : ________   a) fragile  b) competition  c) memoir  d) appetite  e) perpetual
Pink Sheet, Commas, p193. Click in what you did last night. (22/25 for the week = exempt from commas.)
Go over. Study tip: Match each answer with an example from the top part of the sheet.
 

Tom Sawyer Wiki. I've started leaving my comments in red. Since I'll be grading one of them soon...hint hint.

Tom Sawyer, Chapter 18

  1. 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.
  2. "It ain't much -- a cat does that much."  Does what?  a) care.  b) eat.  c) dream.  d) play. e) all of the above.
  3. "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.  e) NOTA.
  4. What makes Tom feel like the "guiltiest of villains"?  a) Fooling the whole town.  b) Getting hugged by Aunt Polly.  c) When Sid doesn't believe him.  d) Stealing all the stuff they took to the island.  e) NOTA.
  5. "Shut up, Sid."  Who's talking?   a) Tom.  b) Aunt Polly.  c) Mary.  d) Joe Harper.  e) NOTA.
  6. Why does Tom think he can do without Becky now?  a) He likes Amy Lawrence better anyway.  b) He was so popular now after his return.  c) He's tired of her being so fickle.  d) He's found someone new. e) NOTA.
  7. Which one of these is NOT Alfred Temple?  a) The boy Becky Tom tries to make Tom jealous with.  b) The kid Tom beat up in Chapter 1.  c) Becky's previous boyfriend.  d) The boy Becky says this to: "Go away and leave me alone, can't you? I hate you!"  e) He is all of these.
  8. Why does Becky dump Alfred?  a) Because he's boring.  b) Because he's mean.  c) Because he's too nice.  d) Because Tom hates him.  e) NOTA.
  9. Becky gets back at Tom by pouring ink on his spelling book.  a) True  b) False

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

120?
TS.