vocabulary

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• KBARR ! Read 15 minutes, get chart signed DAILY (in notebook), respond 1 page by Friday. Four signatures (M, T,W,Th) due Friday.
• Vocabulary due Tuesday and Wednesday.
  • due Tuesday – Definitions in notebook.
  • due Wednesday – Copy and Finish the SMYK’s.

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Prep Sheet for Test #24. KBARR: ___/24  SMYK:___/10  Bonuses: Period 6 gets +2 for Vocab Relay. All others get +1.

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Mental Floss.

1. Wacky Wordy: GWETORUSTD (Hint: $)
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. The following clues make a pun on words that start with mis-.
   Example: This young woman could lead the orchestra. (bad behavior) Answer: Misconduct.
   • a) This young woman is in great shape. (an outsider)
   • b) This young woman showed me where to go. (lied to me)
   • c) This young woman knew exactly what I meant. (she didn’t really)

Test #24

Tomorrow’s Test: See Below. Preview HERE.

“Agreement, 3/9.”

1. (S/V for each clause.) The llama and his mom ____ that patience and diligence ____ key to success.
2. Either the llama or the tree ____ added to the pic after it was taken.
3. The blonde llama, like the ones in the movie, ___ very rare and valuable.
4. Some rare llamas ____ smaller llamas inside.
5. The killer llama, among the largest predators, ____to be as long as twenty-seven feet.
6. Sheila, but not her brother, ____ working tomorrow.
7. (S/V for each clause.) The Albino Llama ___ many mysteries which ____unsolved to this day
8. _____ Jimmy and his mom want to come with us to the llama party?
9. (S/V for each clause.) Jimmy, who ___ two funny names, ____ he studies, but I don’t believe him.

 

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“Vocab, 3/9.” Lots of repeats.

1. _____
2. _____ (Not lineage)
3. _____
4. _____
5. The wind made the old newspapers _____ across the empty streets.
6. Some people say that it is only a ______that there is life after death…
7. …They think that we are being _____ to think that we are anything but worm food…
8. …But someone who is deeply religious might say that kind of talk is ______.
9. There are the _____(s) of four presidents on Mount Rushmore.
10. Because of the Martian’s telepathy, the Earth men were under the _______ that their loved ones had come back to life.
11. The root of this word is a part of the word itself. _____
12. The root of this word meant “sight.” _____
13. The root of this word was Greek for “dog” or “hound.”

Vocab Relay!

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Poem #435  by Emily DickinsonMuch Madness is divinest Sense– To a discerning Eye– Much Sense–the starkest Madness– ‘Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail– Assent–and you are sane– Demur–you’re straightway dangerous– And handled with a Chain–

Madness = insanity divinest = most perfect, the best discerning = looking  very carefully/showing good judgement starkest = most obvious All = everything prevail = decides/wins assent = say yes demur = say no

“EMEN, 3/9.” Answer not letter.

1. What does the captain say that finally makes Mr. Aaa stop and listen to him?
2. What is it the Earth men want from the Martians?
3. Even though it doesn’t really have anything to do with the story, Ray Bradbury spends time describing a mechanical spider toy that the little girl plays with. What’s the point? (Bonus for 2)
4. It turns out that the job a Martian has to have to welcome Earth men is…
5.  “A shot rang out. Mr. Xxx fell.”  a) exposition  b) rising action  c) inciting incident  d) rising action  e) climax  f) falling action  g) resolution
6. “When the town people found the rocket at sunset, they wondered what it was. (p30) a) exposition  b) rising action  c) inciting incident  d) rising action  e) climax  f) falling action  g) resolution
7. “That night it rained all night. The next day was fair and warm.”  (p31)  a) exposition  b) rising action  c) inciting incident  d) rising action  e) climax  f) falling action  g) resolution
8. Why does the story end with a “weather report”?

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Giver Movie Ending.

• Which scenes from the movie would you use for the trailer? Why?
• What if we were making a “book trailer”? Would you use the same scenes? What would be different?

“Giver, 3/9.”

• Book or Movie? 3 Reasons why + Example for each.

 

“Agreement, 3/8.” Write the SUBJECT and an appropriate VERB FORM.

1. Humberto, along with his llamas, _____ going on a long trip soon.
2. The girls with the best skills ____ on to the next round.
3. Those llamas in that boat there ____ in danger of drowning.
4. The test which we have on Fridays ___ not that difficult if you do your classwork and study.
5. Neither the llama nor I ____ going to the game tomorrow.
6. The llamas in the band _____ pretty well for llamas.
7. The average llama ___ more than 30,000 poisonous, sharp quills.
8. One of the most annoying students ____ sentenced to hard labor at the llama academy.
9. Shadillac, with his posse following, ____ heading for the ISS for a mission.
10. Either Krusty or Charlie___ going to the backstage party but not both.

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“Vocab, 3/8.”
    

1. _____ (Not visage.)
2. _____
3. _____
4. This pic came from a page called, “Things that are NOT ______.”
5. She scraped her knee _____(ing) around on the blacktop.
6. The root of this word meant “slander.”
7. The original root of this word meant “goat.”
8. The root of this word meant “natural.”
9. The root of this word meant “young shoot.”
10. naive : savvy :: optimistic : ______
11. During WWII, giant posters with Hitler’s _______ loomed from almost every wall in Germany.
12. His family’s ______ here in the U.S. was very long, stretching all the way back to the Mayflower.
13. The root of this word meant “to mock or mess with.”

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Finish “The Earth Men.”

Link for those at home: The Martian Chronicles. The story begins on page 22.

 

“Agreement, 3/7.” Write the true subject of the sentence and then the proper verb form.
Example: The team with the best uniforms usually _____ the game. a) win  b) wins  —->  team wins

1. Most of the group’s music _____ playing on the radio.  a) is  b) are  c) were
2. Neither the trumpet player nor the drummer _____ our school.  a) has visited  b) have visited  c) are visited  d) NOTA
3. “The Men of Mars” _____ like a boring show.  a) sounds  b) sound
4. Sophie ___ going along with all her friends.  a) is  b) are  c) were
5. On that road next to the river ____several abandoned cars.

“Clauses, 3/7.”

1. Write a complex sentence.
2. It must also have at least one prepositional phrase.
3. Underline your dependent clause. Circle your prepositional phrase(s).
4. You must use all these words: puppy, with, guitar, Martian, involved, hippo

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Yes, I know there’s no SMYK for delusion. I guess you have to make one up!

“Vocab, 3/7.”
   

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. In order for a species to survive, it must ______ itself.
6. Apparently, second period was under the _______ that it was OK to interrupt the teacher.
7. Dally was very ______ about life; he saw nothing good in it, and looked on the bad side of everything.
8.  In addition to being very functional and useful, the machine was also ______(ally) pleasing.
9. excited : disappointed :: savvy : _______
10. Most people start to get more _____ as they get hungry.
11. One of the crimes Joan of Arc was burned for was _______ against the church.
12. The rumor seemed to _______ itself all over the school; by the afternoon until everyone had heard it.
13. The root of this word meant “to perceive.” _____ {Bonus: What medical word is related to this word?}

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The Earth Men.
Link for those at home: The Martian Chronicles. The story begins on page 22.
(Read to the top of p27: “The other three men stood with their shadows under them. They spat on the  stone street … “)

Things to watch for:

1. What does the captain say that finally makes Mr. Aaa stop and listen to him?
2. What is it the Earth men want from the Martians?
3. Even though it doesn’t really have anything to do with the story, Ray Bradbury spends time describing a mechanical spider toy that the little girl plays with. What’s the point? (More than one answer.)

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“Previously On… The Giver!”

 

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“Scrambles, 3/6.” Try to punctuate correctly this time! (Extra for Extra.)

1. –however  –many more llamas  –I would like  –I don’t have  –to raise  –enough time
2. — she forgot  –it boiled over  –she was concentrating  –and  –because  –on her homework  –about the soup

 

Debrief Test #23. Better!

 

MARS!

Should we try to land people on MARS? Why/Not?

• 21 month round trip
• solar radiation
• -50 avg. temp
• 98% CO2 atmosphere
• 38% of our gravity
• zero life or water; lots of dust and rocks

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“The Earth Men” from The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

What happens (historically) when two very different cultures meet?

What if an alien knocked on your door?

Discuss:
What does telepathy literally mean? ___ ___. (Up to +2!)
What do you think having true telepathy would be like?

Let’s go to Mars.

Link to story for absentees: The Martian Chronicles. The story begins on page 22.

 

Dah Givah Movie.