Wednesday, 12/8/10 - Sevrnth Grade
Warm Up. Copy into notebook. Use your spelling*/vocabulary** list to choose the correct word for each blank.
  1. * "nature person" =
  2. *(2) "judgement thing" =
  3. * "loosenable" =
  4. * contest : competition  ::  autobiography : ______
  5. ** flounder : fish :: ________ : encyclopedia
  6. ** pretty : ugly :: rational : ______
  7. The prefix hypo- means...  a) needle  b) extra  c) beneath  d) energetic  e) cold

Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. You might use words more than once. You might not use them all.
Write the word for each blank in your notebook.
flounder, conscientious, meddle, efficacy, revelry, whorl, meander, bustle, ample, compendium, daft

  1. Esteban's project was almost finished, and then his mother started to _________ with it. He was up all night fixing it.
  2. Jane the Midwife ___________(ed)  into the room and took charge of the situation.
  3. Sometimes the __________ of a cure lies in the mind of the person who believes it will work.
  4. From the author's description, Grommet Smith has a rather _____________ figure.
  5. He wasn't a very ______ student so his grades were not very good.
  6. The field full of flowers was a ________ of color as the wind blew them this way and that.
  7. Unless you leave Laguna with some good reading skills, you will ________ in high school.
  8. The holiday season is a time for ________  and for quiet family gatherings.
  9. The road  "__________(ed) easterly and northerly until it ended in the glory that was St. Swithin's Day Fair."
  10. exact : approximate  ::  nonchalant : _____
  11. wander : meander :: interfere : _______

 

MWA

Wednesday, 12/8/10 - Eighth Grade
Warm Up. Copy into notebook.Use your spelling*/vocabulary** list to choose the correct word for each blank.

  1. * video : audio : _____ : text
  2. * infancy : maturity :: relentlessness : _______
  3. * weaken : strengthen :: bore : _______
  4. ** boredom : zeal :: freedom : _______(ion)
  5. ** useful : futile :: impossible : _______
  6. Adding the suffix -able (-ible) will always turn a word into a(n) ______.
  7. Adding the suffix -ize will always turn a word into a(n) ______.


IRP, p360-361. (10)

  1. Which of the following words does not signal order?  a) than.  b) first.  c) then.  d) finally.  e) All signal order.
  2. (2) What did you put in the 2nd box?
  3. About how long was her day?
  4. About how long did she actually "work"?
  5. How much did she get paid?
  6. What does she say was hard not to do?
  7. About how many extras appeared in her scene?
  8. (2) What did you put in the 3rd box?
  9. Which of these does not describe Nicole at the end of the day?  a) excited  b) wet  c) grouchy  d) tired  e) She used all those to describe herself.
    Bonus: There is a fairly major mechanical mistake in the article. What is it?


Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. Write the answer in your notebook.
defray, futile, subjugate, disgruntled, foreboding, ostentatious, pandemonium, wallow, zeal, flounder

  1. The Vegas high-roller always stays in the most ____________ suite he can find. He likes to show that money doesn't mean anything to him.
  2. After winning the huge jackpot in Vegas, she threw all the cash on the bed and ________(ed) around in it just to celebrate.
  3. Unless you leave Laguna with some good reading skills, you will ________ in high school.
  4. When Ponyboy lay down in the church that first night, he had a feeling of__________ that it wasn't going to work out at all.
  5. When he was younger, my boy was very ________(ous) about learning all there is to know about prehistoric life.
  6. He washed the dishes with something less than __________, wishing the whole time he was somewhere else.
  7. It is ________ to whine about things you can't change.
  8. (3) When the food ran out halfway through the party, people went crazy, there was a)_________.  People were very b)____________; they couldn't remember a worse reception. And just when they thought it couldn't get any worse, the hosts tried to take up a collection to c)__________ the cost of what little there was.
  9. '"Yankee gold,' wrote one Confederate officer, 'is fast accomplishing what Yankee arms could never achieve -- the ___________(ion) of our people.'"
  10. boredom : zeal :: peace : ________

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