Month: October 2015

Prep Sheet for Test #6:
FROs Homework: ___/15 
FROs I: ___/7  FROs II: ___/10  FROs Pretest: ___/11
Vocabulary Homework:___/20
Warm Ups: 9/29: ___/10   9/30: ___/11   10/1:___/11
Other Extra Credit may include… “FROs Pretest: +1, +2 or +3.” Period 5 only: “+3 Vocab Relay.” All other bonuses this week should be included with the warm ups they were a part of.

 

Mental Floss.

1. What can be seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
2. What is 3/7 chicken + 2/3 cat + 1/2 goat?
3. I am so fragile that when you say my name you break me. What am I?
4. What letter can you place on the line, other than E, to complete this sequence?
   SEQUENC__
5. 5 + 5 + 5 = 550 Add ONE STRAIGHT LINE to make the equation correct. No, you can’t make a not equal sign. That would be an inequality, not an equation.
6. While riding in the car I saw a license plate that read like this: IXMNIZ. What occupation did the man in the car have?

Test #6. If you earned 11/11 on the FROs Pretest, skip 12-20. Use your forward button to skip to #21. When we look at scores, mentally add 9 to get your actual score.

Doodle Theme: FUN!

Checking: p29 side of the FROs Sheet.
Tomorrow’s Test: Vocabulary (duh), FROs, Outsiders, Husker Du?

“Warm Up, 10/1.”

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 _____.”
5. _____
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 soldier.
9. It was only by the _____(ing) in his eyes that you could tell Johnny was scared.
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.

 

Vocabulary Relay! Can ANYBODY beat Period Three?!
(Update: Looks like the answer was yes: Period 5.)

 

“FROs Pretest, 10/1.”

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.

 

HUSKER DU?!

 

Outsiders!

 

 

 

 

 

How did SE Hinton foreshadow that the church would catch fire?