Thursday, 10/11/12
Collecting: SNT #2 - "Fun" or "Weird Planet"
Test Tomorrow: Spelling (study what you missed), Vocabulary
(study the pretest), Commas (study the pink sheet, p193 and the pretest
we take today), and Husker Du/Outsiders chapter 7.
Warm Up. Copy. * = spelling ** = vocabulary
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* camera : surveillance :: ________
: shopping
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* professional : amateur :: farewell
: ____
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* savvy : professional
:: _____ : amateur
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* coupon : savings :: marathon
: ______
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* extraordinary : routine :: specific
: _____
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* city : map :: person : ______
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** painful :
excruciating :: obvious : _______
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** typewriters
: obsolete :: 8th graders : ________ (3 acceptable answers.)
Pink Sheet:
Commas.
Go over
rules 6-8.
Annotate
rule #7- Appositives.
Commas
Pretest. One at a time. 11/11 = Exempt.
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The town of El Queso Grande, I believe, has a
48 foot wheel of cheese. a) correctly punctuated b) incorrectly
punctuated
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I was late to class so, I got detention.
a) correctly punctuated b) incorrectly punctuated
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Elizabeth Kenny devised new more effective methods of treating infantile
paralysis. Which comma rule should this sentence follow?
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 5 e) 8
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A lot of cake was served, during Cindy's wedding. a)
correctly punctuated b) incorrectly punctuated
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Captain Queso, the chief of police directed traffic during the president's
visit. a) correctly punctuated b)
incorrectly punctuated
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Thanks to Mr. McCheese I believe the hamburger
became a respectable dinner companion. a) Thanks, b) McCheese,
c) McCheese, believe, d) McCheese, hamburger, e) respectable,
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Training was based on apprenticeship and students learned from older
students. a) apprenticeship, b) apprenticeship, and, c)
and, d) Ok as is.
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Kenny an Australian nurse aroused controversy due to her treatment methods.
a) Kenny, nurse, b) Kenny, c) nurse, d) nurse, controversy,
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Florence Nightingale was a nurse hospital reformer and humanitarian.
a) Nightingale, b) nurse, hospital, reformer, c) reformer,
d) hospital, e) NOTA
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Early nursing education however had little or
no classroom preparation. This sentence contains an appositive.
a) True b) False
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Florence Nightingale received her nursing training
in Egypt and Germany. a) correctly punctuated b) incorrectly
punctuated
The Outsiders
Chapter 6 quiz. Open Mouth. Sorry, some classes
will have to reclick.
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Who stopped the greasers from jumping Cherry
when she came by the vacant lot? a) Dally b) Pony c) Soda
d) Two-Bit e) Darry
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What was his probable reason for this?
a) He's secretly in love with her. b) His previous experience talking
to her told him she wasn't like the other Socs. c) He was afraid
of Soc retaliation. d) It was the agreed deal before the big rumble.
e) NOTA
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How did Dally know about the church?
a) He'd hidden there before. b) All the older greaser knew about
it. c) He used to live in the country. d) A relative told him
about it. e) NOTA
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Which is one of the reasons Dally gave Johnny
for not turning himself in? a) Dally would get in trouble b)
Johnny would get the electric chair. c) He didn't want Johnny to
end up like him. d) The boys are worried about him e) His parents
don't care.
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When Johnny announces that he wants to turn
himself in, Pony disagrees, and wants to stay in the church because he's
afraid. a) True b) False
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What do we learn about Dally when he talks
to Johnny about jail? a) Dally is proud of his past.
b) Dally is cold and mean. c) Dally has jail savvy. d) Dally
cares about something. e) NOTA
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Johnny's behavior (not scared, having fun,
very decisive) inside the burning church is both ironic and not ironic.
a) True b) False
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Why would Johnny be "having the time of his
life" in the church? a) He wants to pay back for what he did to Bob.
b) He feels needed for the first time. c) He likes little kids.
d) He thinks the cops will go easy on him. e) He secretly wants to
die.
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When Pony asks about Dally and Johnny, and
Jerry Wood "studie(s) his wedding ring," what's going on? a) He's
thinking about his wife. b) It's still hot from the fire. c)
It's stuck, and painful, so he pauses to adjust it. d) He's stalling,
trying to think of how to break the news. e) NOTA
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It is ironic when Jerry says, "...(we) think
you were sent straight from Heaven." a) True b) False
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How/when does Pony finally realize that Darry
really does care about him? a) When he says, "Oh Ponyboy, your hair..."
b) When he reads the letter from Soda. c) When Darry offers him a
cigarette. d) When Darry starts crying. e) When he rescues
Pony from the fire.
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The scene in the church would be considered
part of the ________ of the story. a) climax b) inciting
action c) exposition d) rising action e) NOTA
Chapter 7 aloud...