Thursday, 1/15/09 - Tomorrow's Test: AWs, Vocabulary, Husker Du, Tom Sawyer.
Hey, we might be able to squeeze in a few 120 Sconds tomorrow. Any volunteers?
Warm Up. Click and copy. New Rule: The DW Warm Up Rule. If you are exempt from academic words, you don't have to copy the AW warm ups. If you are exempt from vocabulary, you don't have to copy vocabulary warm ups. In order to skip the new COMBO* warm ups, you must be exempt from both.
  1. *Teachers these days are being asked to ______ instruction for various levels of students. a) rebuke  b) ostentatious  c) dispose  d) hierarchy  e) differentiate
  2. The door-to-door evangelists tried to _________ me to their religious beliefs.  a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) convert  e) innovate
  3. *joy : smile :: pain : ______  a) extract  b) rebuke  c) repulse  d) dispose  e) writhe
  4. The police can't resort to torture to ________ a confession from a suspect. (In the case of seventh graders, however...)  a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) submit  e) simulate
  5. *Your _______ will be very difficult to prove.  a) miscreant  b) ultimate  c) advocate  d) soliloquy  e) thesis   (Bonus: There is also another vocabulary word that might fit in the blank that is not listed here. +1 for finding that word.)
  6. *The army was outnumbered, nevertheless it ________(ed) the invasion.  a) prohibit  b) extract  c) innovate  d) repulse  e) rebuke
  7. (Husker du? 9/16/08)  Only _______  have a past, present, and future tense.   a) adjectives  b) verbs   c) nouns   d) They all do.
Tom Sawyer, Chapter 9. Mooooooooodle. Watch for the stat padding. MAKE SURE when you quote the book, that you use quotation marks, and give a page number.
  1. Which of the boys is more scared in the graveyard?  a) Tom  b) Huck
  2. Why does Injun Joe kill Doc Robinson?  a) The doctor wouldn't give him any more money. b) The doctor hit him first.  c) Revenge for something in the past. d) The doctor insulted him for being Native American.  e) None of the above.
  3. Injun Joe knows the boys witnessed the murder, and is out to get them.  a) True  b) False
  4. Who is D?   a) Hoss Williams  b) Tom  c) Injun Joe  d) Muff Potter  e) Doc Robinson
  5. Who is E?   a) Hoss Williams  b) Tom  c) Injun Joe  d) Muff Potter  e) Doc Robinson
  6. Who is F?   a) Hoss Williams  b) Tom  c) Injun Joe  d) Muff Potter  e) Doc Robinson
  7. Who is G?   a) Hoss Williams  b) Tom  c) Injun Joe  d) Muff Potter  e) Doc Robinson
  8. "Oh, Joe, you're an angel. I'll bless you for this the longest day I live."  Who's talking?  a) Tom  b) Huck  c) Doc Robinson  d) Muff Potter e) Hoss Williams
  9. Why is he so grateful? a) Because Joe didn't kill him.  b) Because Joe's giving him some of the money they found in the grave.  c) Because Joe saved him from Doc Robinson.  d) Because Joe told him he wouldn't report what he did.  e) NOTA
  10. slang: sawbones   a) corpse  b) grave robber  c) pirate  d) demon  e) NOTA
Regarding #1: Why might that be?  Didn't _________ say, "If you ain't afeared" in chapter 6, when they were talking about testing the cat?
 
 

120 Seconds. Silence and respect.
Judges' Ballots are here. Volunteers for Tuesday?