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Thursday, 9/29: Vocabulary, FROs, Outsiders, Plot

Tomorrow’s Test: Vocabulary (including SAWs), FROs, Outsiders/Plot, Husker Du.

Blog of the Day: Rozy Can Read!

“Vocabulary, 9/29.” *** = Current SAW.
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1.”Don’t blame me! I don’t make the laws, I just _____them!”
2. “What’s a _____, Joey?” “I knew you were going to say that!”
3. It was Ug’s discovery, but it would be____(ed) by others.
4. “Finding work may not make you happy, but it would make me _____(ly) happy.”
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6. The adventurer’s ______(s) made for a great novel.
7. The school newspaper has been __ for a long while, but they hope to revive it next year.
8. Grandpa Simpson likes to ____ about his days as a young man.
9. The greasers and the Socs have agreed to a sort of _____-fire before the rumble. They have agreed not to fight until the big one.
10. The large farm owners are often accused of ____(ing) the workers who pick the crops.
11. I was _____ and bored when Mom made me go to my sister’s ballet recital.
12. The villain’s evil plot was ______(ishly) clever.
13.  *** (2) He made a ______ and generous ______(ion) to the Save the Whales campaign. (There is only one answer for the first blank, not two.)

 

VOCABULARY RELAY!!!

FROs.
EXAMPLE 1: The dry desert soil and hardly any water. CS, RO, F? WHY?
EXAMPLE 2: Not much rain falls in the desert, some animals still live there.  CS, RO, F? WHY?

“FROs Pretest, 9/29.” CS, RO, F? 10/10 = EXEMPT!

  1. Hide in burrows and beneath rocks.
  2. As I wandered too close to the fire.
  3. With a sword in one hand and a shield in the the other.
  4. Herds of fiendish llamas called dooms roam the empty countryside.
  5. Months may pass between attacks when they do occur, they are violent.
  6. There are shells all over the beach, let’s collect some!
  7. Is this a fragment?
  8. The strange life of the llama.
  9. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.
  10. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.

 

Outsiders and Plot. Bonus Lightning Round.

After we are introduced to the characters and their situations in the 1)______, we get to the 2)______, which sets our story in motion. The 3)______ is usually the longest part of the story and full of ups and downs. This is where we build up the anticipation for the 4)_____ of the story, which is the highest point of the action in the story and steers us toward our 5)_______.

Monday, 9/26: Copy Homework, Debrief Test #5, Blogs!

Homies: Schoolwide Academic Words. (9p)

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considerable, contribute, demonstrate, sufficient, valid

  1. _____  2. NOT _____   3. _____  4. _____  5._____
    6. (3) My mom said my argument was not ______(ly) ______, and I did not ______ the need for a new game system, so I was denied.

 

Copy homework into planner.

Debrief Test #5. Ouch!

BLOGS!

  1. Get a Chromebook. It goes back the way you found it.
  2. Go to Blogger.com and log in there using your @student.slcusd.org username.
  3. Click New Blog.
  4. Create a meaningful title for your blog. You will have to live with it all year.
  5. Create a memorable url for your blog. Try to match the url with the title if possible.
  6. Click Create Blog!
  7. Email the url (the part before .blogspot.com) of your blog to: mcoward@slcusd.org
  8. Tonight: Click the pencil   to write a new POST. Do not create another blog!

 

Finished? Start your definitions or your FROs sheet.

Friday, 9/23: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #5

Prep sheet for Test #5:
KBARR: _____/40
Spelling Homework: ___/10  Vocabulary Homework: ___/20
Warm Ups:  9/19: ___/6    9/20: ___/15     9/21: ___/14   9/22: ___/15
Other Extra Credit: May include +3 for Period 1 for Vocab Relay (+1 for Period 3), FRO Pretest, VVV, NVAA, Etc.

 

Mental Floss.

  1. Explain how I do it: “In my bedroom, the nearest lamp that I  usually keep turned on is 12 feet away from my bed. Alone in the room, without using wires, strings, or any other aids or contraptions, I can turn out the light on that lamp and get into bed before the room is dark.”
  2. What are the elusive characters; missing two letters or numbers? (In other words, what letters go into the blanks? The answer is NOT R and E.)
    W  A  T  E  ___ M  ___  L O  N
  3. 1961 was a special year (besides the fact that Mr. Coward was born then). In fact, the next time a year will be this special will be the year 6009. What is so special about those two years?
  4. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
  5. In each sentence below, an animal is concealed. For example, the sentence, “What shall I do, Gertrude?” has the word dog concealed. Find the hidden animal in each sentence.
    • a) Horace tries in school to be a very good boy.
    • b) People who drive too fast are likely to be arrested.
    • c) For the Halloween party, John came looking like a radish.
  6. When does 1+1+1=1?

 

Test #5.

Doodle Theme: MUSIC.

 

 

Thursday, 9/22: Spelling/Vocab + Relay, FROs, Outsiders

Tomorrow’s Test: Spelling, Vocab (including SAWs), Plot, FROs, Outsiders.

Due Tomorrow: KBARR (chart + 1 page in notebook or 4 blog posts) and spelling practice (sentences and/or analogies).

“Warm Up, 9/22.”  * = spelling. ** = vocab. *** = SAW. (15p)

  1. * (3) He saluted the _____, who had been in the Marine _____ for 25 years, and who was the ______ reason behind him becoming a Marine.
  2. ** humble : vain :: nonchalant : _____
  3. ** I was _____ to tell the teacher about the cheating I saw, because the person was my friend.
  4. ** Life is made up of thousands of ____ decisions every day, but some are more important than others.
  5. ** The comedian ____(ed) the famous politician’s mannerisms. (Bonus if you actually spell the answer correctly with the suffix.)
  6. ** If you ____ (ed) CPK last night, it benefited the band program.
  7. ** I did not want to be ___(ed); I felt I was savvy enough to make my own decisions.
  8. ** Buck Merrill sometimes sold _____ alcohol.  (It was called bootlegging. Bonus for the origin of the term!)
  9. ** A spy must use ____(ion) and not go blabbing secrets around.
  10. ** I finally had to poke him to ____ any response at all!
  11. *** (3) The city council studied the _____ _____ of the new shopping center on the local neighborhood before asking the developer to ______ a more pedestrian-friendly environment.

 

VOCABULARY RELAY!
Can ANYONE beat Period Three?!

NOTE: For the homophone pairs do this, “Discrete, E, T E.”

 

“FROs Pretest 9/22.” Write F, RO, or CS as needed. (11/11 = Exempt from this section tomorrow!)

  1. There are shells all over the beach, let’s collect some!
  2. The chuck wagon, a rolling kitchen on wheels.
  3. The word chuck means “food” or “grub,” and that is what they served.
  4. Laughing at the comedian’s act, Jimmy fell off his chair.
  5. The cook was one of the most important persons on the trail, and he was highly paid.
  6. Looking after saddles and bridles was also one of the cook’s jobs.
  7. Explained the rules of the game and demonstrated it.
  8. I love that story; I have read it three times.
  9. Over the hills and through the woods, to Grandmother’s house we go.
  10. Chief Wiggum, the doughnut-eater and chief cop.
  11. True/False: One of the ways to fix a run-on is with a conjunction such as and or but.

Trade and Grade

 

The Outsiders

 

Friday, 9/16: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #4

Prep sheet for Test #4:
IMPORTANT! PLEASE ADD KBARR SCORE.  “KBARR: ___/40”
Vocabulary Homework: ___/20
NVA: ___/8  NVAA: ___/10
Vocab Practices: ___/10  ___/12  ___/12
Other Extra Credit:  May include: +1 for Lolly III, +3 for Per3 for Vocab Relay.

 

Mental Floss.

  1. Sue is both the 50th best and the 50th worst student at her school. How many students attend her school? (Not a trick, just math.)
  2. You have six sticks that are vertical on the floor like this:
    |  |  |  |  |  |
    Add five more sticks to make nine.
  3. An archaeologist uncovers an ancient tomb, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.  Two, unclothed, long-dead bodies are found in the tomb.  One is an adult male, the other an adult female.  Both bodies are perfectly preserved, although dry and leathery with age.  The archaeologist takes one look and exclaims: “It’s a miracle! I have found Adam and Eve.”  How did the archaeologist know this at a glance?
  4. Here is a question on international law: If an international airliner crashed exactly on the U.S.-Mexico border, where would they be required to bury the survivors?
  5. Removing an appendix is called an appendectomy, removing tonsils is called a tonsillectomy. What is it called when they remove a growth from your head? (haha)
  6. What is the next thing in this sequence. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ____.  See if you can fill in the blank correctly.

Test #4.