Seventh Grade:
Warm Up 2/16/11. In notebook.

1. Pluralize: a) family  b) tomato  c) mother-in-law  d) video  e) Jones f) monkey
2. Make them possessive:  a) family  b) James c) it  d) child  e) wish
3. Make them plural AND possessive:  a) hero  b) man  c) fish
4. (Copy.)The drug has many possible _____ side effects, like death. a) wont  b) impertinent  c) pastoral  d) trifle  e) adverse  f) slanderous

Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest.

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 the man "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 is similar in meaning to last week's word impertinent?   a) reckon  b) irrelevant  c) gumption  d) caucus  e) They have all been used.

Charlotte, Chapter 8

1. How did Charlotte generally begin her days? a) Having boiled coffee for breakfast.  b) Gazing at the stars  c) Reading Bible passages to the crew.  d) Having tea with the captain.  e) NOTA.
2. What did Charlotte consider the high point of her days?  a) Brushing her hair.  b) Gazing at the stars  c) Reading Bible passages to the crew.  d) Sleeping.  e) NOTA
3. Now that Charlotte is spending so much time with the crew, she's finding that she doesn't feel so superior to them any more. a) True  b) False
4. A favorite of the crew. a) Zachariah b) Barlow  c) Hollybrass  d) Morgan  e) Charlotte
5. "ship's boy"  a) Zachariah b) Barlow  c) Hollybrass  d) Morgan  e) Charlotte
6. The butt of many cruel jokes. a) Zachariah b) Barlow  c) Hollybrass  d) Jaggery  e) Charlotte
7. Area of the ship off-limits to Charlotte.  a) crew's quarters  b) quarterdeck  c) captain's cabin  d) the hold  e) the galley
8. Got hit by the captain with one of these. -------------->

a) Zachariah b) Barlow  c) Hollybrass  d) Morgan  e) Keetch
9. Charlotte describes him as "nervous and agitated." a) Zachariah b) Barlow  c) Hollybrass  d) Morgan  e) Keetch
10. The favorite Bible story of the crew.  a) David and Goliath.  b) Jonah and the whale.  c) Adam and Eve.  d) Jesus rising from the dead.  e) Jesus walking on water.
11. Zachariah's second gift to Charlotte.  a) a mirror  b) a gun   c) a hairbrush  d) sailor's clothes  e) clean gloves
12. Duff. a) Your, ahem, heinie. b) Times when a sailor is off watch.  c) Times/places when there is no wind. d) Used to scrub the decks.  e) Raisins and flour.
13. Doldrums. a) The main cargo area.  b) Times when a sailor is off watch.  c) Times/places when there is no wind. d) Used to scrub the decks.  e) Raisins and flour.