Wednesday, 5/15/13
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE #1!
It must be PERFECT.

Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. Write the word. Yes. Yes. No.
presumptuous, reproach, mesmerize, quarantine, cathartic, hypochondria, cobble, frugal, barter, avant-garde

1. Art Spiegelman once published magazines of _____ comics like "The Prisoner of Hell Planet."
2. There was a myth that eBay was originally a website for the buying, selling and _____(ing) of Pez dispensers.
3. Artie thinks he might be _______ in trying to tell Vladek's story when it is so beyond his comprehension.
4. The kapo that helps Vladek keeps him safe in a _______ block of the camp, separate from the rest of the prisoners.
5. Artie says that Richieu's picture on the wall was a sort of ______ to him, implying that Richieu would have been a better son than he is.
6. There was a tv show called The ______ Gourmet, which showed you how to eat well without spending a lot of money.
7. Horror movies are a sort of ________ for many people. Everything is released when they scream and squirm.
8. Many of you have pretended to be sick, but a _____(c) actually believes he is sick.
9. trade : barter :: transfix : _______
10. MacGyver could _____ together almost anything from bits of trash he found lying around.
11. (2) Vladek _____(es) Artie for using too many wooden matches because he is too _______ to buy them.
12. When Los Osos Middle School tried having a 6th grade, they still ___________(ed) them for most of the day to prevent conflicts with the 7th and 8th graders.

Vladek. Chapter Two: "Auschwitz (Time Flies)"