vocabulary

Checking: SMYKs and TSSQ-13.

“Gamma, 5/2.” (10) Copy the underlined, boldfaced word and tell what part of speech it is.
noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, conjunction

1. (2) He bowls really well.
2. I thought the movie was rather cheesy.
3. I am sure you know better.
4. (3) Surely you do not think unicorns are real, do you?
5. (2) The clock was running a little fast.
6. The running we did in PE yesterday was easy.

“Vocab, 5/2.” (14)
   

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. _____
6. _____
7. After working so hard, he wanted his reward to be something ______, not just a “Good job!”
8. He hit a ______ home run. It was at least 500 feet long.
9. Luck is ______; one day you have it all good, and the next it’s all bad.
10. He made a(n) _____ effort, and his hard work paid off.
11. The Taliban ____(ed) television and music. They claim those things are against the laws of Islam.
12. His grade was in a _____ position; one more bad grade and he would be failin…
13. (2) …He could not afford to be _____; he had to be _____. (Not wary.)

Tom Sawyer, Chapter 13.

1. Give an example from Chapter 13 of Tom insisting on doing things “the hard way” or “by the book.”
2. Why are the boys’ consciences bothering them at the end of chapter 13?
3. 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.)
4. (5) 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)
5. (4) Translate: “The other pirates envied him this majestic vice, and secretly resolved to aquire it shortly.” (p93) (A vice is a bad habit.)

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“SAWs, 4/30.”
prevention (noun): the act of stopping something from happening
critical (adjective): using careful judgement about the good and bad parts of something; disapproving. Also: vital or important.
pursue (verb): to follow; to engage into form; to create
alter (verb): to change
approach (noun): method

Go over Test #31. Oh Boy Howdy! Ouch!

“The Cat and the Painkiller”

Tomorrow’s Test: Gramma, Vocab, Tom Sawyer.

“Gramma, 4/26.”  noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, interjection, conjunction

1. The only kind of word that takes an article in front of it.
2. Can be turned into an adverb by adding -ly.
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 most languages other than English, this comes AFTER the noun instead of before, as in English
9. (3) Use the word running in three different sentences: a) as a verb, b) as an adjective, and c) as a noun.

“Vocab, 4/26.” Once each. Flourish once for 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. “The sheriff came through, _____(ly) leading Potter by the arm.”
5. Please do not be a _____ and cheat on tomorrow’s test.
6. When we go over vocab, I am not just _____(ing), I am trying to help you get it right on the test.
7. If you study, your grade will _____.
8. Huck thought Tom was a(n) ______ writer after he heard the oath Tom wrote.
9. The movie star was at the _____ of her popularity when she died suddenly.
10. Among the mothers of St. Petersburg, Huck Finn is a _____.
11. With a _____, the magician pulled a pigeon out of his hat.
12. The villagers thought Muff was being _____ for returning to the scene of the crime.
13. The first 10 _____(ments) to our Constitution are called the Bill of Rights.

“Tom Sawyer Quiz, Chapter 10.”

Make a five panel storyboard. The first four panels should show what happens in the last two big paragraphs of chapter 10 (p75-76), the fifth panel should illustrate the last line of the chapter. Don’t worry about art quality too much (especially the first four panels); focus on showing what happened. You may use thought/talk balloons to help show what happened. The more details the better!

Chapter 11…