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Prep sheet for Test 32.

Mental Floss.

1. There was a man who fell over 50 stories, without anything to slow his descent, and landed without any injuries, alive. How did he survive?
2. The cost of making only the maker knows,
   Valueless if bought, but sometimes traded.
   A poor man may give one as easily as a king.
   When one is broken, pain and deceit are assured.
   What am I?
3. What word is missing? begin, inch, chapel, elastic, ___  ___  ___, cellar, arisen, end
4. Wacky Wordy:
   NO NO NO
   RIGHT
5. Tom Sawyer Anagrams:  a) Tall Pun Yo   b) Hamsters Cool (Technically not a name.) c) Put Off Term
6. Although much water you see,
   by definition, “desert” fits me.
   In the winter I double in size,
   but staying away is a word for the wise.
   I am very windy, that is a clue,
   What am I? Good luck to you. (Alert: geography.)

Test 32!

Tomorrow’s Test: Grammar (study “Husker Du, 5/3”), Vocab + SAWs (duh), Tom Sawyer (can’t really study for this part).

“Vocab, 5/4.” Once each. Flourish once each definition. One SAW.

1. Let’s hope that tomorrow’s test scores aren’t ______(ly) low.
2. You don’t have to be ______ to already know what’s going to be on tomorrow’s test.
3. You don’t have to _____ it to have a copy of tomorrow’s test in advance.
4. So you should be able to _____(ly) prepare.
5. “The sheriff came through, _____(ly) leading Potter by the arm.”
6. Please do not be a _____ and cheat on tomorrow’s test.
7. When we go over vocab, I am not just _____(ing), I am trying to help you get it right on the test.
8. If you study, your grade will _____.
9. Huck thought Tom was a(n) ______ writer after he heard the oath Tom wrote.
10. The movie star was at the _____ of her popularity when she died suddenly.
11. Among the mothers of St. Petersburg, Huck Finn is a _____.
12. With a _____, the magician pulled a pigeon out of his hat.
13. The villagers thought Muff was being _____ for returning to the scene of the crime.

VOCABULARY RELAY!

Book Pitch!

Tom Sawyer

Book Pitch starts tomorrow! Videos will roll @ Open House!

“Husker Du, 5/3.” (12)

1. The only kind of word that takes an article in front of it.
2. An article is a type of ____.
3. The possessive kind don’t need apostrophes.
4. In the sentence, He ran there, the word there is a(n) ______.
5. (2) Can be “intensified” by an adverb.
6. The main one in a sentence is also known as the predicate.
7. The words am, is, are, was, were are all _____(s).
8. In the sentence, He ran with scissors, the word with is a(n) _______.
9. In many languages other than English, this comes AFTER the noun instead of before, as in English
10. (3) Use the word running in three different sentences: once as a verb, once as an adjective, and once as a noun.

“Vocabulary, 5/3.” One SAW.
    

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. _____
6. obvious : hidden :: idol : _____
7. Third period’s ______ behavior for the sub earned them a rating of 3. (not miscreant)
8. The prefix of this word means all or everything. _____
9. Rome was at the _____ of its power around 235 AD. It was all downhill from there.
10. In Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain is a 3rd person, ______ narrator.
11. Sometimes you don’t have to speak to be _____; even a look can say a lot.
12. After his victory, he paraded around _____(ly) wearing his gold medal.
13. She signed her autograph with a fancy _____.

“Tom Sawyer Quiz, 5/3.” Open book, closed neighbor.

1. Which of the boys is more scared in the graveyard?
2. Why does Injun Joe kill Doc Robinson?
3. Injun Joe knows the boys witnessed the murder, and is out to get them. a) True b) False
4. “Oh, Joe, you’re an angel. I’ll bless you for this the longest day I live.”  Who’s talking?
5. Why is he so grateful?
6. (p71) “…maybe that whack done for him!”  Translate.
7. Who is Bull Harbison?
8. According to the boys’ oath, what will happen if they tell on Injun Joe?

Chapter 11 –>

VOCAB RELAY! (Now that you can talk.)

Prep sheet for Test #31:
Grammar: ___/12  ___/12  ___/13    SAWs: ___/11   TS Quizzes: ___/6  ___/5
Vocab h/w: ___/20   Vocab Practice: ___/12  ___/13  ___/15
Other Extra Credit:

Mental Floss.

1. What sort of story begins with a limb and ends with a finish?
2. Two men got lost while exploring in the desert. Each man had a compass. One headed due East, and the other headed due West. Two hours later, they met. How?
3. Following are groups of three words. Can you figure out the common link within each group? Example: Hurricane, potato, needle, (answer: eyes)
   a) computer, onion dip, poker game
   b) bowling alley, dress-maker, wrestling match
   c) dentist, oil field, basketball practice
   d) April, locker room, brides-to-be
   e) pelican, legislature, person in debt
4. Make the matchstick dawg face the other way by moving only 2 matches. His tail must still point up!
5. There are three buildings standing next to each other. One is filled with orphans, the other with old people, and the third is a homeless shelter. One day an arsonist sets them all on fire. Sirens were loudly coming to the scene. People were screaming. Which building did the ambulance try to put the fire out at first?
6. There was a road around a circular lake. A man and his brother each started in the same place and drove around the lake at exactly the same speed, but in opposite directions. The first brother went clockwise around the lake at 40 mph, and the trip took him an hour and 20 minutes. The second brother went counterclockwise around the lake–also at exactly 40 mph–but his trip only took him 80 minutes. Each traveled exactly the same distance: 53.33 miles. How is that possible?

Test #31

DOODLE THEME: DESIGN A NEW VIDEO GAME.

Welcome back! Only 32 more school days left!

Copy homework into planner.

“SAWs, 4/24.” implement, motivate, undertake, incentive, enable
    

6. Real _____(ion) comes from inside you. You have to really have the desire.
7. It was a massive ____(ing) for such a small company, and…
8. …when they tried to ______ the plan, they weren’t really prepared for all the problems.
9. Since he already had a guaranteed A in the class, there was really much _____ for him to do anything.
10. A good vocabulary will ____ you to learn more quickly and understand more.
11. This word also means a tool.

Debrief Test #30 (So long ago!)

Tom Sawyer!

1. What would you do for fun in 1835?
2. What chore/work did you always want to do as a kid, but now that you have to do it, you don’t want to any more?
3. Slang: truck, lick, dander up, powerful warm, lam, suck eggs

Read the Author’s Preface.

Chapter 1.