Wednesday, 10/26/11
Warm Up (9). Copy. * = spelling  ** = vocabulary  { } = do not copy
  1. * copy : duplication :: grade : _____
  2. * speak : pause :: write : ______
  3. * quarrel : cooperation :: insult :: ______
  4. * "with thankful things" = ________
  5. ** assent : dissent :: secret : _______
  6. ** "through nailed" = _______ 
  7. {"Quiet, soft-spoken little Johnny...had taken a human life."   a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme}
  8. {"Two-Bit, you still got that fancy, black-handled switch?"  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme  h) NOTA }
  9. {"...half the hoods I know are pretty decent guys...and a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean--but people usually go by looks."   a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme }
  10. {No peeking at Pink Sheet! The word that a pronoun refers to is called its _________. Example: The word its refers to the word word. The word word is called the ______ of the pronoun its.  Bonus for +1: The first four letters of the answer form a prefix that means ________.}


Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest.

  1. Sometimes Jhonny had ____, and would get up and look at the stars in the middle of the night.   a) dissent  b) revelation  c) insomnia  d) fluster  e) scapegoat
  2. The replays of the auto wreck _____ TV watchers all over the country.  a) assented  b) transfixed  c) insomnia  d) revelation  e) scapegoated
  3. "You're standing here all set to crucify--all set to find a _____--all desperate to point some kind of a finger at a neighbor."  a) fluster  b) revelation  c) metamorphosis  d) idiosyncrasy  e) scapegoat
  4. "They'll probably think we're crazy or something. A little power failure and right away we get all ____ (ed) and everything."  a) assent  b) revelation  c) metamorphosis  d) fluster  e) scapegoat
  5. "In this brief fraction of a moment, they take the first step toward performing a _______ that changes people from a group into a mob."  a) persistent  b) revelation  c) metamorphosis  d) idiosyncrasy  e) transfixed
  6. Almost everybody has one or more _____(s) that people who don't know them would consider "weird."  a) dissent  b) assent  c) metamorphosis  d) idiosyncrasy  e) scapegoat
  7. The little boy is very ____; when he wants something, he keeps trying and trying. a) persistent  b) revelation  c) flustered  d) idiosyncrasy  e) transfixed
  8. The last book of the Bible is called ______(s), and it's where the writer reveals visions of the end of the world. a) scapegoat  b) revelation  c) fluster  d) idiosyncrasy  e) transfix
  9. Congress passed the bill unanimously, without _______.   a) persistent  b) revelation  c) flustered  d) assent  e) dissent
  10. Though third period was very _________ in their begging, Mr. Coward... a) dissent  b) transfixed  c) flustered  d) persistent  e)  transfixed
  11. ...refused to _________ to their requests.   a) flustered b) revelation  c) dissent  d) assent  e) fluster
  12. In professional sports, the coach is often the ____ for a team's bad performance, even if it isn't always his fault.  a) metamorphosis  b) revelation  c) flustered  d) idiosyncrasy  e) scapegoat

 

Outsiders aloud to p147. Then...