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Wednesday, 2/21: Scrambles, Vocab, Giver

“Warm Up, 2/21.” (From Test #12) ANSWERS NOT LETTERS.
a) 1st person  b) 2nd person  c) 3rd person limited  d) 3rd person objective  e) 3rd person omniscient

  1. “I got this,” Jimmy thought confidently approached the house not knowing the llama knew he was coming and was ready for him._____
  2. As soon as your grandpa says, “I give up,” jump out and shout, “Here I am!”
  3. “He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long gray cloak, and a silver scarf. Small hobbit-children ran after the car all through Hobbiton and right up the hill.”____
  4. “Everyone else said of her: ‘She is such a good mother. She adores her children.’ Only she herself, and her children themselves, knew it was not so. They read it in each other eyes.” ____
  5. Maus:___
  6. Giver: ___
  7. Outsiders:___
  8. Midwife’s Apprentice: ___

“Paragraph Scramble, 2/21.” (Letter them A and B)
(page 105)

  1. He eventually slept
  2. “They have never known pain,” he thought.
  3. Again and again he dreamed of the anguish and the isolation on the forsaken hill.
  4. The realization made him feel desperately lonely, and he rubbed his throbbing leg.

(page 14)

  1. The children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.
  2. Jonas laughed.
  3. But almost always, the older brothers and sisters had secretly taught the younger ones.
  4. Jonas had been thinking already about teaching Lily.
  5. It was one on the few rules that was not taken very seriously and was almost always broken.

“Vocab 2/21.” DECORUM, ADMONISH, AMIABLE, RAPT, VILE, ADHERE, CARNAGE, APT, PALPABLE
    

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____ (not amiable)
  5. _____
  6. The root of this word meant “transported by religious feeling.”
  7. The root of this word meant to “caress or pet.”
  8. The root of this word meant “of low value.”
  9. The root of this word meant “trying to please.”
  10. The root of this word meant “fitted, suited, appropriate.”
  11. The root of this word meant “flesh.” (Spanish for meat.)
  12. The root of this word meant “to stick.”
  13. The root of this word meant “decent.”

Giver 14-15.” (8) Letter OK for #7.

  1. What makes Jonas feel “desperately lonely”?
  2. The Giver tells Jonas that the memories of pain and suffering give them _____.
  3. What memory was the strongest when the Elders sought the Giver’s advice about increasing the birthrate?
  4. Why is The Giver the one with all of the memories?
  5. How do they usually decide which identical twin to release?
  6. What does Jonas do to soothe Gabriel when he’s restless at night?
  7. All of these are things Jonas first perceived in this new memory in chapter 15, except… a) Smoke in the air.  b) Bombs exploding nearby. c) Terrible smells.  d) Groaning men. e) He noticed all these things right away.
  8. What does the boy in the memory want?

Giver Aloud, 16–>

 

 

 

 

TIME?

Tuesday, 2/20: Homework, COMBO, Giver

Advisory” Schedule.


Copy homework into planner.

COPY VOCAB LIST into notebook:

  • DECORUM, ADMONISH, AMIABLE, RAPT, VILE, ADHERE (not like tape), CARNAGE, APT, PALPABLE

“Sentence AND Paragraph Scramble, 2/20.” Unscramble the sentences and the paragraph into what they should be. Bonus: Tell S, CD, CX for each sentence. (p71)

  1.  –rules  –beyond the rules   –that governed  –could there be   –the community
  2. –stared  –Jonas  –the books  –at
  3.  –more descriptions –and communities  –of offices   –could there be   –and factories
  4. –of pages  –contained  –he couldn’t imagine   –the thousands  –what

Das Giver. Chapter 14.

LINK FOR THE GIVER: The Giver.

Friday, 2/16: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #21

Editorial use only
IBM 7090 computer. Operators working with an IBM 7090 computer at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, California, USA. The first of four IBM 7090s was delivered here in April 1960. This computer was the first 7000 series machine to use transistors. A data processing system control panel is at centre, with magnetic tape drives in the background.

They rented time on this computer for today’s equivalent of  $400,00/month.

A week of computing time on a modern laptop would take longer than the age of the universe on the 7090.


Prep Sheet for Test #21:
Giver 1-1-1:___/18  Vocabulary Practices: ___/13 ___/13 ___/13  Giver Quizzes: ___/10 ___/7
Interview Essay: ____/100  Extra Scrambles: ___  Other Extra Credit:
Periods 1 and 5 get +2 for Vocab Relay; all other classes get +1.

 

Mental Floss.

  1. These word pairs are not in relation to each other, but if you find their synonyms, the two words will rhyme. Example : Plump Feline = Fat Cat.
    a) nondescript crustacean  b) old story  c) big cargo boat  d) timid gnat  e) kiss dog
  2. In what month do Americans eat the least amount of food?
  3. Wacky Wordy:   Queso >
  4. Fill in the blanks below with a word that means the same as the word on the left when read normally, and fits the definition on the right when read backwards.
    • a) Friends ______ hit sharply.  
    • b) Rinds of fruit _______ What we do with over one third of our lives.  
    • c) Wicked _______ Exist
  5. Starting with an empty barrel, put in order. (Not a trick.)
    *2/3 full *1/4 empty *1/2 full *3/4 empty

 

Test #21.

Doodle Theme: An ad for your new movie!

Thursday, 2/15: Scramble, Commas, Vocab + Relay, Giver

“Tutorial Schedule.”

Tomorrow’s Test: Commas, Vocab, Giver, Scramble.


“Scramble, 2/15.”

  1. –another elephant  –where  –in the trees  –now he saw  –it had stood hidden  –emerge from the place
  2. –filled with people  –and  –with firelight glowing  –in a room  –on a hearth  –it was warm  –he was

“Commas, 2/15.” FIRST show where the commas go. SECOND, write the rule you used to place the comma(s). (Letter ok.)
There is ONE that needs 2 reasons. There is ONE that is OK as is.
A. to separate independent clauses. (+ FANBOYS)  B. after an intro word, phrase or clause.  C. between all items in a series.  D. to set off non-essential information  E. to show direct address.  F. Between adjectives that modify the same noun

  1. Most of the time travelers worry about their luggage getting lost.
  2. I wanted to improve my grade so I studied and studied.
  3. This easy fun exercise will help you with all your llama woes.
  4. Some llamas refuse to go to the zoo because of pity for creatures that must live in small cages.
  5. Rachel Ray finds inspiration in cooking her family and her dog.
  6. As the llama goddess she regulated the course of the heavenly bodies created alpacas and controlled the alternating seasons.
  7. There was no question that the llama’s painting a huge colorful and ugly mural was the worst entry in the art exhibit.

“Vocab, 2/15.”– anachronism, archaic, imperious, vapid, brood, poignant, deft, relish,chastise
  

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. The climax of The Outsiders is bittersweet and ______ as the greasers win the rumble but lose two of their own.
  6. Percy Jackson’s father, Poseidon, is known as one of the more ______ of the Greek gods.
  7. Ponyboy spent a lot of time by himself, ______(ing) about the future and his relationship with Darry.
  8. Mr. Coward _____(ed) me for not paying attention …again.
  9. The root of this word meant “lacking in flavor.”
  10. The prefix of this word means “beginning.”
  11. The root of this word meant “to command.”
  12. The roots of this word meant “to nurse feelings in the mind.”
  13. The Middle English roots of this word meant “release odor or taste.”

Vocab Relay!


Giver Quiz 11-12 Quiz.

  1. Why was it so exhausting for The Receiver/Giver to give Jonas the memory of snow?
  2. (2) The Receiver/Giver says he has great ____but not much _____.  (Yes, the order matters.)
  3. When Jonas asks what happened to things like snow, the Receiver calls it… “_____”
  4. Jonas thinks that even if he were not prohibited from discussing his training, it still would be impossible to talk about it with his friends. Why?
  5. The Giver thinks they made a mistake when they got rid of color.  a) True  b) False
  6. Which quote foreshadows a conflict between Jonas and the community?  (Letter OK) a) “I apologize for making you wait.”    b) “She expected him to describe his first day of training.”   c) “You’re beginning to see the color red.”  d) “We shouldn’t have!”   e) “Everyone in the community has one-generation memories.”

 

Giver 13…

Wednesday, 2/14: Scramble, Debrief Test #20, Commas, Vocab, Giver

“Scramble, 2/14.”

–to the end  –which  –had a switch  –the man  –that said OFF  –this speaker  –deftly snapped

 


Debrief Test #20. hrrrmmm.


“Commas, 2/14.” FIRST show where the commas go.  SECOND, write the rule you used to place the comma(s). (Letter ok.)
A. to separate independent clauses. (+ FANBOYS)    B. after an intro word, phrase or clause.
C. between all items in a series.    D. to set off non-essential information
E. to show direct address.    F. Between adjectives that modify the same noun

  1. I asked my BFF the llama with a necktie for a dollar.
  2. She wanted to tame the wild llama but it was too much for her.
  3. With a happy flourish the llama ate the doughnut.
  4. There was a very ancient ancestor to the llama which had giant razor-sharp claws.
  5. She said she likes cooking her family and her dogs.
  6. OMG Jimmy I can’t believe you did that!

“Vocab, 2/14.”anachronism, archaic, imperious, vapid, brood, poignant, deft, relish, chastise
   

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. After the accident which killed his brother, he spent weeks _____(ing) about it and wondering if it was his fault.
  6. The world of The Giver seems very ____ and meaningless to us even if it might be safer.
  7. She ____(ly) got the ball to her teammate with a no-look pass.
  8. The ending of the movie was so _____ that everyone left the theater in tears.
  9. Jonas ____(ed) his free time with his friends and was worried about losing that during his training.
  10. The root of this word mean “discipline.”
  11. The root of this word meant “to poke.”
  12. The root of this word meant “the beginning.”
  13. The root of this word meant “time.”

The Giver 9-10 Quiz. (10) OPEN BOOK, CLOSED NEIGHBOR. Numbers OK for Jonas’s rules which on page 65.

  1. About which instruction on Jonas’s sheet do we get no thoughts from Jonas?
  2. (2) Which two were the least disturbing to him?
  3. Why does the final rule unnerve Jonas so much?
  4. What do Mom and Dad say happened to the previous selection for the new Receiver?
  5. Why are The Receiver’s doors locked?
  6. What is the most conspicuous difference between The Receiver’s dwelling and Jonas’s own dwelling?
  7. The Receiver looks so old because he is.  True or False?
  8. What memories does the Receiver hold?
  9. What shocked Jonas so much at the end of chapter 10?

The Giver aloud. Chapter 11.