Wednesday, 3/3/10
Warm Up. Copy. Use your spelling list (3), your vocabulary homework (3) and your partner's help.
  1. professor : teach :: ______ : orbit
  2. responsible : reliable :: outfitted : _______
  3. rigid : flexible :: optional : _______
  4. villain : cheat :: teacher : _______
  5. Which spelling word follows the "drop the E" rule?  __________
  6. Martin Luther King Jr. : inspired :: Captain Jaggery : __________
Go over vocabulary homework.
First, correct it with your partner.
Then correct it as we go over it with red pen.
Bonus of +2 for all of them correct.
Vocabulary Pretest. (Solo)
  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) thwarted  e) cowed
  2. Are we lost? By my __________(ing) we should have been home hours ago.  a) reckon  b) brusque  c) edify  d) tract  e) caucus
  3. The teacher _______ the students into being quiet by threatening to use the Quiet Stick.  a) edified  b) supplication  c) rebuffed  d) brusqued  e) cowed
  4. After much ______, and many cookies, the teacher finally forgave the students for the heinous behavior.  a) gumption  b) supplication  c) rebuff d) thwartage  e) cowed
  5. Jaggery _______ Charlotte's efforts to apologize.  a) edified  b) caucused  c) rebuffed  d) brusqued  e) reckoned
  6. People say New Yorkers can be very ____- almost rude, and always in a hurry.  a) thwart  b) edified  c) cowed  d) gumption  e) brusque
  7. Jaggery told Hollybrass to whip Zachariah "with strength," or else to "stand aside for someone who has the _____."  a) brusqueness  b) irrelevant  c) edification  d) gumption  e) thwart
  8. People read both for pleasure and _____.   a) brusqueness  b) tracts  c) edification  d) gumption  e) reckoning
  9. The Women's _______ is a political group that promotes issues that are important to women.  a) irrelevant  b) gumption  c) edification  d) caucus  e) brusqueness
  10. 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) reckoned
  11. Some true believers think that the final __________(ing) is near, and God will reward them, and punish the non-believers.  a) reckon  b) supplication  c) edify  d) tract  e) irrelevant
  12. His attempt to climb Mt. Everest was _______ by bad weather, which forced him to turn back.  a) brusqued  b) rebuffed  c) thwarted  d) caucused  e) edified
  13. The revolution that made the US a separate nation was preceded by the printing and circulation of political _________(s) that influenced people's thinking.   a) reckon  b) brusque  c) edify  d) tract  e) irrelevant
  14. Which word have you not used?  a) reckon  b) irrelevant  c) gumption  d) caucus  e) They have all been used.


Charlotte 13.

  1. Foley compliments Charlotte by calling her a pretty girl. a) True  b) False  (Don't even raise your hand. Read the sentence again.)
  2. While the men were discussing whether or not they would take Charlotte's offer, she said they looked at her like she was...   a) a murderer  b) a little child  c) insane  d) a thing  e) not even there
  3. When she agrees to the test, they look at her with a combination of...  a) fear and hatred  b) suspicion and mistrust  c) respect and trust  d) admiration and contempt  e) pity and contempt
  4. Ewing's advice to Charlotte...  a) "Don't! Don't!"  b) "Don't look down. Or up."  c) "Up on the ratlines."  d) "Now before never."  e) NOTA
  5. The "great mistake" Charlotte made when she started out was that she chose to climb the ratlines instead of going up the mast.  a) True  b) False
  6. Charlotte's descent was even harder than the ascent.  a) True  b) False
  7. Which "illustration"  best shows the situation Charlotte was in in Chapter 13?
  8. a) b) c)
    d) e)