Month: April 2018

Friday, 4/20: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #31

Prep sheet for Test #30:
TS KBARR: ___/20     TS Quizzes: ___/6  ___/6
Vocab h/w: ___/20   Vocab Practice: ___/13  ___/13 ___/10
Other Extra Credit:  +3,+2, or +1 for each Gramma that had 9+ correct.

 

Mental Floss.

  1. What sort of story begins with a limb and ends with a finish?
  2. Two men got lost while exploring in the desert. Each man had a compass. One headed due East, and the other headed due West. Two hours later, they met. How?
  3. Following are groups of three words. Can you figure out the common link within each group? Example: Hurricane, potato, needle, (answer: eyes)
    a) computer, onion dip, poker game
    b) bowling alley, dress-maker, wrestling match
    c) dentist, oil field, basketball practice
    d) April, locker room, brides-to-be
    e) pelican, legislature, person in debt
  4. Make the matchstick dawg face the other way by moving only 2 matches. His tail must still point up!
  5. There was a road around a circular lake. A man and his brother each started in the same place and drove around the lake at exactly the same speed, but in opposite directions. The first brother went clockwise around the lake at 40 mph, and the trip took him an hour and 20 minutes. The second brother went counterclockwise around the lake–also at exactly 40 mph–but his trip only took him 80 minutes. Each traveled exactly the same distance: 53.33 miles. How is that possible?

 

Test #30.

TEST CORRECTION in GRAMMAR SECTION:
CHOICE G should be INTERJECTION, not Preposition.

Doodle Theme: Prank.

Thursday, 4/19: Gramma, Vocab + Relay, Tom and Huck and Becky

Tomorrow’s Test: Vocab + SAWs, Tom Sawyer, a wee bit o’ Gramma.

Tonight: Click the test link, open your Tom Sawyer book, and LOOK UP THE ANSWERS!

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“Gramma, 4/19.” noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection

  1. The main one in a sentence is also known as the predicate.
  2. Answers the questions how, where, or when.
  3. Answers the questions which one, what kind, how many.
  4. A connecting word that joins words, phrases, or clauses.
  5. A substitute for a noun.
  6. A word of surprise or strong emotion.
  7. Often ends in -ly.
  8. Has a past, present, and future.
  9. Intensifies adjectives and adverbs.
  10. (2) Only described by adjectives.

 

“Vocab, 4/19.”
  

1. _____  2. _____  3. _____  4. _____  5._____
6. I’m _____? Do you even know what that means? (LOL. It’s a joke.)
7. It was rather _____ of Pony and Johnny to rush into the burning church.
8. The fireman jumped out of bed with ____ when the alarm sounded.
9. (2) The Socs always would say the word greaser _____(ly) and with ______(ing).

 

 

Tom Sawyer.  Two questions.

  1. How did Tom get back at the maid who dumped water on him outside Becky’s window?
  2. What does Tom fantasize about twice in Chapter 3?

 

Chapter 4: Movie excerpt from 1938?

Chapter 6: Let’s meet Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher.

Wednesday, 4/18: Vocab, Tom Sawyer

Checking SMYKs.

“Gramma Review, 4/18.  Copy and label. (10p)
(The word on is a preposition. “Doh” is extra credit. The is an article, which is technically a ____.)

Doh! Homer tripped very awkwardly and hit his fat head on the door.

 

 

“Vocab, 4/18.”
   

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. I am not exactly _____ to helping you out of this mess, since it was your own fault.
  6. It was hard for Pony to understand the ____(ing) that Socs had for greasers.
  7. The helpful student picked up the trash with _____ after being asked to help out.
  8. He was ____(ed) to do all his homework before he watched any tv.
  9. He is a rather ____ liar; he tells so many lies, you can never tell which of his stories is true.
  10. obvious : subtle :: bogus : _______
  11. Aunt Polly thought she was being very _____(ful) as she questioned Tom, trying to trick him.
  12. bold : audacious :: patronizing : ______
  13. ** People with criminal backgrounds are legally ____(ed) from working for some government agencies like the FBI.

 

Tom Sawyer.

“Tom Sawyer Quiz, 4/18.” Write the answer.

 

  1. The Outsiders : Tulsa :: Tom Sawyer :_____
  2. (left) What is wrong with this illustration from the original edition?
  3. (right) Which scene does the right hand pic show? (That’s Jim with the bucket.)
  4. According to MT, what is the difference between work and play?
  5. Who is the “great and wise philosopher” mentioned on p15? (I need a NAME.)
  6. “bully” = “gay”  a) True  b) False

(Bonus) Which character in The Outsiders would agree with the philosophy of “spare the rod, spoil the child”?

 

Tom Sawyer: Busy at Love and War.

Tuesday, 4/17: Gramma, Vocab + SAWs, Tom Sawyer!

“Vocab, 4/17.”

    

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. _____
  6. The author Ray Bradbury was a very ____ writer, writing at least a thousand words per day.
  7. The bank clerk had to examine the two $100 bills very carefully to tell which was ______.
  8. He ____(ly) cussed in front of Mr. Schalde.
  9. That kind of car is very fast, but it is _____ to break down often.
  10. Work is what you are ______(ed) to do. Play is what you are not _____(ed) to do. (Same word.)
  11. Pony couldn’t get the image of Bob, ______ on the pavement, out of his head.
  12. On the show CSI, the crime scene investigators used science to ____ whom the killer was.
  13. ** Even though the story jumped around from the past to the future, it still had a _____ feel and was easy to follow.

 

 

“Tom Sawyer, 4/17.” Write the answer.

  1. Most of the adventures in this book really happened to Mark Twain. a) True  b) False
  2. The character of Huck Finn is based on a real person. a) True  b) False
  3. The character of Tom Sawyer is based on a real person. a) True  b) False
  4. Which  one of these is not a purpose MT had in mind when he wrote this book?  a) Entertainment.  b) Education.  c) To remind adults that they were kids once.  d) To tell a good story.  e) He had all of these in mind.
  5. What is it about the new boy that bugs Tom so much?  The way the new kid is _______.
  6. What does the last paragraph of chapter one say Tom’s punishment will be for coming home late and with his clothes all torn and dirty?

 

Check a few summaries. Duhn duhn duhn…

 

Tom Sawyer, chapter 2. The most famous prank in all literature.