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Prep sheet for Test #22:
Vocabulary Homework:_____/20
Vocabulary Practices: ___/15  ___/15
Other Extra Credit: ???

Mental Floss.

1. Wacky Wordies: 
   a) OFTEN, NOT, OFTEN, NOT, OFTEN    
   b) S – N – O – W (Probably should have done this one in December.)
   
2. The amazing No Snore Sally has gone 11 days without sleeping. How does she do it?
3. What large and well known city in the U.S.A. is half golden and half silver?
4. Although very old coins tend to be worth more than their face value, why is it that 1997 nickels are worth about $100?
5. What’s the common link?
   • a) tailor, wrestling match, bowling alley
   • b) watermelon, tournament, flower
   • c) hurricane, needle, potato
   • d) barber, rooster, beehive
6. Can you figure out the logic I used to decide the order of the following words? (Hint: Sing them to yourself.)
   gun, shoe, spree, door, hive, kicks, heaven, gate, line, den

Test #22

Doodle Theme: Illustration for your Perfect Paper.

Tomorrow’s Test: vocabulary, proofreading, Vladek.

Oh yeah. Perfect Papers are due on Tuesday.

“Warm Up, 2/11.” Let’s see if you can find all eight!

“Vocabulary Practice, 2/11.”
  

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. We ran out of the ingredients for the recipe, so we had to ______.
6. The Nuremberg Laws ____(ed) Jews to second-rate status.
7. After he saved the kids from the fire he was ______(ed) by the whole town.
8. “That test was easy!” he said _______(ly), in that annoying way of his.
9. The students in the MP are far from _____ when it comes to cleaning up after themselves at break and lunch.  
10. The annoying kids taunted the dog over the fence until he was _____(ed) enough to jump it. 
11. The _____ waiter smirked when I remarked that it was odd that a French restaurant didn’t even have French fries on the menu.
12. Years of work were needed for the CIA agent to _____ himself into the terrorist organization.
13. After three warnings, Scott was _____(ed) to the “naughty chair.”  
14. (2) After years of ______(ion) from the fans, the movie star had gotten too _____ to sign autographs for the “little people” who made her such a star.

Auschwitz guard in the news. More here.

Vladek.

“Warm Up, 2/10.” Proofread! Try to find and fix ’em all!

“Vocabulary Practice, 2/10.” (15p)
   

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. I didn’t like his ____(ion) that I wasn’t good enough to make the team.
6. He was a ______ opponent, and very tough to outwit.
7. When the poor but honest boy asked the beautiful princess to marry him, she declined _____(ily), saying, “As if…”
8. The old photographs were all ______(ed) to the attic because nobody looked at them any more.
9. Jean is very _____ about her silverware; she won’t eat at that restaurant because she thinks the forks aren’t clean enough.
10. He tried to _____ himself into the “cool crowd” by hanging around A LOT.
11. pigs : sloppy :: cats : ______ (1 + 1 bonus)
12. (2) He fooled his pursuers with a _______ trick that he ______(ed) on the spot.
13. This word’s roots mean “to bend/lean inward.” ______
14. This word’s root comes from the name of the Goddess of Love. _______

Vladek.

Whom do you side with in the Vladek/Mala conflict? Why?

1. What makes Artie shrink down again on p47?
2. What is a kapo?
3. What is a barrack?
4. What was an Appel?
5. What was a Selektion?
6. (quote) Why does the tin shop foreman, Yidl, dislike Vladek?
7. How does Vladek win him over?
8. How does Vladek get Anja’s kapo to stop mistreating her?
9. Vladek’s first job as a tin man was working on the roofs at Birkenau. What was his second job as a tin man at Auschwitz?
10. What does Vladek’s last quote on p70 mean?

Copy homework into assignment book.

“PERFECT Paper” due Friday.

Preliminary Vocabulary Ratings.

Go over Test #21.

Vladek.

It’s an Assembly Schedule, so work quickly.

Paperwork for Test #21.
Vocabulary Homework:  ___/20
Vocabulary Practices:  ___/11  ___/11  ___/16
Other Extra Credit: Periods 3 and 5 take +3 for vocab relay, some groups have +1 for the missing be, +1 for why-a-comma.

Mental Floss.

1. A man builds an extraordinary house where all four sides face south.  A bear walks up to one of his windows and peers in. What color is the bear?
2. There is a building with thirty stories and one elevator. On floor twenty-one, four people get on and zero get off. On floor thirteen, six get on and two get off. On floor nine, eight people get on and four get off. How many people would get on and off on floor thirty-one?
3. What two words contain the most letters?
4. Find the name of a planet hidden in each of the following sentences:
   • a) “Steven, use the screwdriver to build those shelves.”
   • b) Everyone takes a turn in the cage.
   • c) “Catherine, you ran us over with your bicycle!”
   • d) “Sam, arsenic is poisonous! I read about it on the internet.”

Test #21

Doodle Theme (if time): A dystowpeean futer (sic)!