Wednesday, 3/25/09
Warm Up. Copy (1-5) and fill in. Use your Spelling Pretest/Vocabulary List to help you.
  1. grocery : store :: fence : ________
  2. nursery : primary :: _________ : secondary
  3. school : schedule :: vacation : _________
  4. explanation : theory :: counterfeit : ________
  5. complicated : elementary :: social : ________
  6. Because of the endings this week, there are no _______(s) on our spelling list.  a) nouns  b) verbs  c) adjectives



Pink Sheet Pairs: Interrogative and Demonstrative Pronouns
Read and do p61 together.
Circle: A4, A5, A6, B2, B4
Pretest 1 together. (Open Pink Sheet)
  1. whom: a) object, demonstrative  b) subject, interrogative  c) object, interrogative  d) subject, demonstrative  e) NOTA
  2. who's  a) object, demonstrative  b) subject, interrogative  c) object, interrogative  d) subject, demonstrative  e) NOTA
  3. here  a) object, demonstrative  b) subject, interrogative  c) object, interrogative  d) subject, demonstrative  e) NOTA
  4. those  a) object, demonstrative  b) subject, interrogative  c) object, interrogative  d) subject, demonstrative  e) NOTA
  5. The best player on the team is ______?   a) whom - because it's the object of the preposition  b) whom - because it's a predicate pronoun  c) who - because it's a predicate pronoun  d) whom - because it's the direct object  e) who - because it's the direct object
  6. A4: a) who  b) whom
  7. A5: a) Who  b) Whom
  8. A6: a) Who  b) Whom
  9. B2: a) These  b) This
  10. B4:  a) that  b) that there



Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest.
  1. He is not a(n) ________ member of the team; we need his help desperately.  a) aurora  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) subliminal
  2. The gardener ______(ed) a new limb onto the ailing tree.  a) correlate  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
  3. Since there were 1,000 points possible in the quarter, one or two would be a(n) _______ amount.  a) infinitesimal  b) poised  c) emanate  d) resilient  e) subliminal
  4. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered _________.  a) infinitesimal  b) paradox  c) expendable  d) resilient  e) subliminal
  5. In some Third World countries, the police are paid so little that they have to resort to ________ to survive.  a) infinitesimal  b) poised  c) graft  d) subtle  e) expendable
  6. There is a lot of ___________ advertising in movies. They call it "product placement." a) infinitesimal  b) poised  c) emanate  d) correlate  e) subliminal
  7. A trampoline is, by definition, ___________. a) infinitesimal  b) poised  c) subtle  d) resilient  e) expendable
  8. "That'd be a(n) ________. Time doesn't permit that sort of mess -- a man meeting himself." a) aurora  b) paradox  c) expendable  d) resilient  e) subtle
  9. There is a direct ___________(ion) between education and income.  a) poise  b) paradox  c) aurora  d) correlate  e) graft
  10. He tried to be very ________ and calm when he met his girlfriend's parents. a) correlate  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
  11. It was hard to believe that such a big voice ________(ed) from such a little girl.   a) correlate  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
  12. The display of colored lights in the sky that happens near the North Pole is called the ________ borealis.  a) aurora  b) paradox  c) expendable  d) resilient  e) subtle
  13. His joke was so _________, it took me a while to get it. a) correlate  b) poised  c) expendable  d) resilient  e) subtle

"A Sound of Thunder"