Spelling List 4/29: capital/capitol, core/corps, colonel/kernel, idle/idol, who's/whose, their/there/they're, it's/its, cereal/serial, principal/principle
Vocabulary. Due Tuesday: Look up definitions at learnersdictionary.com and write them IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!  Due Wednesday: Copy and finish the Show Me You Know Sentences in your notebook.
diverge/converge, marked (adj), incognito, tedious, exacting, folly, vindictive, auspicious, novice, abstain

Show Me You Know Sentences. (Due Wednesday in notebook.)
Everybody's opinions diverged...   The crowd converged on...   He tried to go incognito...   It was so tedious...   Mr. Cheese is very exacting...   It was pure folly to...   She is rather vindictive...   It was an auspicious sign...   She was a novice...   He promised to abstain...

TSSQ + Vocab, 16-20.
Chapter 16.
The boys had two reasons to be thankful after the big storm. What were they?   What made it an "extremely satisfactory day" playing Indians?  "Two of the savages almost wished they had remained pirates." (p116) Explain.
Chapter 17.
"Well, Tom Sawyer, he licked me once." (p 118b, 109w) Why did this person say this? Why was no one impressed?  "Tom got more cuffs and kisses that day -- according Aunt Polly's varying moods -- than he had earned before in a year..." (Last paragraph of 17.
Chapter 18/19
What makes Tom feel like the "guiltiest of villains"? Why does Tom think he can do without Becky now?  Who is Alfred Temple?  Why does Becky dump Alfred? How did Aunt Polly find out the truth about Tom's "dream"? What makes her forgive him for lying?
Chapter 20.
What was Mr. Dobbins' (the schoolmaster) secret ambition? Why does Tom say that Becky will get caught, even if he doesn't tell on her?  What were Tom's punishments for the teacher's ripped book?

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Spelling List 4/29: capital/capital, core/corps, colonel/kernel, idle/idol, who's/whose, their/there/their, it's/its, cereal/serial, principal/principle
Vocabulary. Due Tuesday: Look up definitions at learnersdictionary.com and write them IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!  Due Wednesday: Copy and finish the Show Me You Know Sentences in your notebook.
diverge/converge, marked (adj), incognito, tedious, exacting, folly, vindictive, auspicious, novice, abstain

Show Me You Know Sentences. (Due Wednesday in notebook.)
Everybody's opinions diverged...   The crowd converged on...   He tried to go incognito...   It was so tedious...   Mr. Cheese is very exacting...   It was pure folly to...   She is rather vindictive...   It was an auspicious sign...   She was a novice...   He promised to abstain...

TSSQ + Vocab, 16-20.
Chapter 16.
The boys had two reasons to be thankful after the big storm. What were they?   What made it an "extremely satisfactory day" playing Indians?  "Two of the savages almost wished they had remained pirates." (p116) Explain.
Chapter 17.
"Well, Tom Sawyer, he licked me once." (p 118b, 109w) Why did this person say this? Why was no one impressed?  "Tom got more cuffs and kisses that day -- according Aunt Polly's varying moods -- than he had earned before in a year..." (Last paragraph of 17.
Chapter 18/19
What makes Tom feel like the "guiltiest of villains"? Why does Tom think he can do without Becky now?  Who is Alfred Temple?  Why does Becky dump Alfred? How did Aunt Polly find out the truth about Tom's "dream"? What makes her forgive him for lying?
Chapter 20.
What was Mr. Dobbins' (the schoolmaster) secret ambition? Why does Tom say that Becky will get caught, even if he doesn't tell on her?  What were Tom's punishments for the teacher's ripped book?