1. * worry : anxiety :: disposition : __________
2. * calm : urgency :: routine : ___________
3. * animals : herd :: humans : ______
4. generosity : generous :: anxiety : ________
5. ** ebullient : somnolent :: intellectual : ______
6. ** "I'm sorry." : penitent :: "I'm hopeful." : _______
7. ** "I agree." : affirmation :: "I'm worried." : ________

VERB! That's What's Happening!
Video + Pink Sheet.

Lightning Round?

1. a) nationality  b) hospitality  c) consistancy  d) all correct
2. a) familiarity  b) majority  c) privacy  d) all correct
3. a) emergency b) personality  c) anonymity  d) all correct
4. a) maturity b) eccentricity  c) spontenaity  d) all correct
5. invigorated : somnolent :: cynical : ______   a) amorphous  b) invigorate  c) sanguine  d) affirm  e) sustenance
6. Artists and writers draw intellectual _________ from their work.   a) amorphous  b) invigorate  c) sanguine  d) affirm  e) sustenance
7. He was _________(ed) by the positive feedback, and motivated to work even harder.     a) vapid  b) amorphous  c) penitent  d) conciliatory  e) invigorate
8. I hadn't studied, so I went into the test with much ________.  a) amorphous  b) penitent  c) trepidation  d) vapid  e) affirmation
9. Manny comes over to Barney's house in chapter 8 to... a) borrow something.  b) get back the rule book.  c) ask about the island.  d) get Barney to play the game.  e) b and d
10. After the trip to the island, Barney wants to get back on the neighbors' good side because... a) he's afraid of them. b) the vacation would be boring without them.  c) he's attracted to them.  d) a and c  e) b and c
11. (adverb --> word it modifies) I am well pleased with my llama's fine performance on the test.  a) pleased --> am  b) am --> pleased  c) pleased --> performance  d) well --> performance  e) well --> pleased
12. (adverb --> word it modifies) He is indubitably the finest llama at the newest school. a) finest --> is  b) indubitably --> is  c) indubitably --> llama  d) newest, finest --> is  e) no adverbs
13. I am a _____ bowler; I bowl rather _____.  a) good/good  b) well/good  c) good/well  d) well/well
14. The most common linking verbs are forms of the word do.  a) True  b) False
15. Boats are slower but less expensive than airplanes.  (verb/type?)  a) slower/action  b) are/linking  c) are slower/action  d) NOTA

Interstellar Pig Chapter 9!
 

Thursday 3/24/11 - EIGHTH GRADE - PERFECT IV is postponed to MONDAY!
Test Tomorrow: Spelling, Vocabulary, Husker Du, Voibs, CoW
Due Tomorrow: Sentence Scramble, **SQ's, **5x Spelling
Warm Up. Copy.

1. * worry : anxiety :: disposition : __________
2. * calm : urgency :: routine : ___________
3. * animals : herd :: humans : ______
4. generosity : generous :: anxiety : ________
5. ** a surplus : plethora :: a fit  : _______
6. ** uncontrolled : rampant :: eccentric : ______
7. ** They say it's a woman's _______ to change her mind.

VERB REVIEW.
VERB! That's What's Happening!
Video + Pink Sheet.
 
 

Lightning Round?

1. a) nationality  b) hospitality  c) consistancy  d) all correct
2. a) familiarity  b) majority  c) privacy  d) all correct
3. a) emergency b) personality  c) anonymity  d) all correct
4. a) maturity b) eccentricity  c) spontenaity  d) all correct
5. wreckage : flotsam :: privilege : ________   a) contrive  b) rampant  c) peremptory  d) enumerate  e) prerogative
6. Sometimes you need a vacation to _________ after your vacation.  a) contrive  b) convalesce  c) juxtapose  d) enumerate  e) flotsam
7. When they choose a jury, each side has several _______ challenges, where they can dismiss a prospective juror for no reason at all.  a) rampant  b) juxtapose  c) plethora  d) enumerations  e) peremptory
8. Non-native species will often run _______ in a friendly climate, and eliminate the native plants.  a) contrive  b) rampant  c) peremptory  d) enumerate  e) convalesce
9. A ________ amount is a _________.   a) feigned/paroxysm  b) copious/plethora  c) jaded/rampant  d) callow/rampant  e) NOTA
10. Who said?  "The poor dears! Now you must promise you won't be harsh with them for the rest of the trip, or I won't go a step."  a) Perrault  b) the Scotch half breed  c) Hal  d) Charles  e) NOTA
11. Who said?  "They're lazy, I tell you, and you've got to whip them to get anything out of them."  a) Perrault  b) the Scotch half breed  c) Hal  d) Charles  e) NOTA
12. What was the "reason why fourteen dogs should not drag one sled"?  a) You couldn't control that many dogs.  b) It was too expensive.  c) You couldn't get that many dogs.  d) That many dogs would fight all the time.  e) NOTA
13. The clown with the evil grin skipped to the circus.  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
14. The most common linking verbs are forms of the word do.  a) True  b) False
15. Boats are slower but less expensive than airplanes.  (verb/type?)  a) slower/action  b) are/linking  c) are slower/action  d) NOTA

The Call of the Wild.  p65--->