Thursday, 3/13/14
Schoolhouse Rock.
Tomorrow's Test: Spelling (reruns of the warm ups), Vocabulary (ditto, plus reruns of the pretest), PoS, Vladek (open book).
The test will look pretty much like today's warm up.
Checking Rule #3: Change a final y to i before a suffix (ending), unless the suffix begins with i.
Warm Up. Please read the instructions carefully as they will not be read aloud.
1-3: Write the wrongly spelled word correctly. (Hint: Rule #3)
4-8: Write the word and the part of speech based on its use in the sentence.
9-10: Write the word.
 * = part of speech.  ** = vocabulary.  Collaboration: OK.
  1. a) tried  b) flying  c) occupying  d) ugliest  e) all correct
  2. a) shyness  b) babyish  c) hurrying  d) ladylike  e) all correct
  3. a) parties  b) pitiful  c) trying  d) defiant  e) all correct
    I was slightly ill after a stormy trip across the ocean with my llama.
  4. was: ____ *
  5. slightly:____ *
  6. ill: ____ *
  7. stormy: ____ *
  8. across::____ *
  9. ** congratulate : _____ :: bore : _______ (2)
  10. ** manufacture : ______ :: buy : _______ (2)


Vocabulary Pretest.Write the word. Yes. Yes. No.
presumptuous, reproach, mesmerize, quarantine, cathartic, hypochondriac, 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. When the Apollo 11 astronauts returned for the first time from the moon, they were kept in __________ for several weeks to make sure they didn't bring back any "space germs."
  5. Artie says 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 sort of ________ for many people. Everything is released when they scream and squirm.
  8. Many of you have pretended to be sick, but a _____ actually believes he is sick.
  9. trade : barter :: transfix : _______
  10. MacGyver could _____ together almost anything from a bomb to a hang-glider 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.



(Correct/Do) Vladek Quiz. Chapter 5 for those classes far enough along. Write the answer.
  1. Why might Vladek be more attached to things than to people?
  2. Why does Artie put himself in a prison in "Prisoner from Hell Planet"? (What is he a prisoner of?)
  3. Why is Vladek unfriendly to Artie on page 98?
  4. What does Mala say about how "Prisoner..." showed the way things were when Anja died?
  5. What possession of Anja's is Artie so interested in finding?
  6. (2) How does Richieu die? Why that way?
  7. How did Vladek and co. get caught in their attic bunker?
  8. Being called a kombinator is a compliment. a) True b) False
  9. Why do you think Vladek still sends Haskell gifts?