Spelling List. maturity, narrative, creative,
believable, cooperation, movable, ignorance, requirement, revision,
security, insurance, separately
Vocabulary: fickle, apathetic, prodigious, magnanimous, palpable, wary, proscribe, precarious, canvass (v), picturesque, earnest
Show
Me You Know Sentences. (Due
Wednesday in notebook.) Tom
thinks girls are fickle...
I was apathetic... A prodigious amount...
He magnanimously...
The fear was palpable...
She looked warily around...
That behavior is proscribed... He was in a precarious position...
They canvassed the
neighborhood... It was a picturesque village
... I had to prove I was earnest...
Tom Sawyer Study
Questions. Do in notebook daily.
Chapter
12
1.
"Because if he'd 'a had one, she'd 'a burnt him one herself!" Who's
talking? What's going on? What does he/she mean?
2. What
does Tom do when Becky finally comes back to school?
(Quote.)
What's her reaction?
Chapter
13
1. Give
an example from Chapter 13 of Tom insisting on doing things "the hard
way" or "by the book."
2.
Draw a map of where the island is, and how the boys got there. Be sure
to label it with distances and place names. (p88-91)
3.
Why are the boys' consciences bothering them at the end of chapter 13?
4.
Why does Mark Twain call the boys "curiously inconsistent pirates"?
(Last line of Chapter 13.) "Because they are pirates who
________ ________." (Hint: It also might be called
ironic. Hint II: See your answer to the previous question.)
Chapter
14
1.
What does Tom think (due to his superstition) he will get, since the
inchworm crawled across him?
2.
Where is the boy's raft now?
3.
The boom the boys hear is ______, and it means the villagers _____, and
that makes them feel _____.
4.
Why are the boys consciences bothering them at the end of Chapter 14?
Chapter
15
#
What can we assume Tom wrote on the note he left in Joe's hat at the
end of Chapter 14?
#
Name a piece of evidence the villagers use to conclude the boys had
drowned.
#
Why does Tom not "capture" the rowboat he uses to get back to the
island, even though he's tempted to?
#
Why does Aunt Polly scold Sid?
#
What does Tom start to do, and then decide not to do? (Besides
capturing the rowboat.)
Spelling List. maturity, narrative, creative,
believable, cooperation, movable, ignorance, requirement, revision,
security, insurance, separately
Vocabulary: fickle, apathetic, prodigious, magnanimous, palpable, wary, proscribe, precarious, canvass (v), picturesque, earnest
Show
Me You Know Sentences. (Due
Wednesday in notebook.) Tom
thinks girls are fickle...
I was apathetic... A prodigious amount...
He magnanimously...
The fear was palpable...
She looked warily around...
That behavior is proscribed... He was in a precarious position...
They canvassed the
neighborhood... It was a picturesque village
... I had to prove I was earnest...
Tom Sawyer Study
Questions. Do in notebook daily.
Chapter
12
1.
"Because if he'd 'a had one, she'd 'a burnt him one herself!" Who's
talking? What's going on? What does he/she mean?
2. What
does Tom do when Becky finally comes back to school?
(Quote.)
What's her reaction?
Chapter
13
1. Give
an example from Chapter 13 of Tom insisting on doing things "the hard
way" or "by the book."
2.
Draw a map of where the island is, and how the boys got there. Be sure
to label it with distances and place names. (p88-91)
3.
Why are the boys' consciences bothering them at the end of chapter 13?
4.
Why does Mark Twain call the boys "curiously inconsistent pirates"?
(Last line of Chapter 13.) "Because they are pirates who
________ ________." (Hint: It also might be called
ironic. Hint II: See your answer to the previous question.)
Chapter
14
1.
What does Tom think (due to his superstition) he will get, since the
inchworm crawled across him?
2.
Where is the boy's raft now?
3.
The boom the boys hear is ______, and it means the villagers _____, and
that makes them feel _____.
4.
Why are the boys consciences bothering them at the end of Chapter 14?
Chapter
15
#
What can we assume Tom wrote on the note he left in Joe's hat at the
end of Chapter 14?
#
Name a piece of evidence the villagers use to conclude the boys had
drowned.
#
Why does Tom not "capture" the rowboat he uses to get back to the
island, even though he's tempted to?
#
Why does Aunt Polly scold Sid?
#
What does Tom start to do, and then decide not to do? (Besides
capturing the rowboat.)