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

  1. * camera : surveillance :: ________ : shopping
  2. * professional : amateur :: farewell : ____
  3. * savvy : professional :: _____ : amateur
  4. * coupon : savings :: marathon : ______
  5. * extraordinary : routine :: specific : _____
  6. * city : map :: person : ______ 
  7. ** painful : excruciating :: obvious : _______
  8. ** 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.

  1. The town of El Queso Grande, I believe, has a 48 foot wheel of cheese.  a) correctly punctuated  b) incorrectly punctuated
  2. I was late to class so, I got detention.  a) correctly punctuated  b) incorrectly punctuated
  3. 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
  4. A lot of cake was served, during Cindy's wedding.  a) correctly punctuated  b) incorrectly punctuated
  5. Captain Queso, the chief of police directed traffic during the president's visit.  a) correctly punctuated  b) incorrectly punctuated
  6. 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,
  7. Training was based on apprenticeship and students learned from older students.   a) apprenticeship, b) apprenticeship, and, c) and, d) Ok as is.
  8. Kenny an Australian nurse aroused controversy due to her treatment methods.   a) Kenny,  nurse,   b) Kenny, c) nurse, d) nurse, controversy,
  9. Florence Nightingale was a nurse hospital reformer and humanitarian.  a) Nightingale,  b) nurse, hospital, reformer,  c) reformer,  d) hospital,  e) NOTA
  10. Early nursing education however had little or no classroom preparation.  This sentence contains an appositive. a) True  b) False
  11. 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.

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Johnny's behavior (not scared, having fun, very decisive) inside the burning church is both ironic and not ironic.  a) True  b) False
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. It is ironic when Jerry says, "...(we) think you were sent straight from Heaven."  a) True  b) False
  11. 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.
  12. 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...