Month: May 2023

Wednesday, 5/31: SCRABBLE Round 2

YEE #6.

“Alternayee, 5/31.”:

Wacky Wordies Rerun!

 

BRING BACK ALL BOOKS AND CHROMEBOOKS!

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LET’S PLAY SCRABBLE. This time it’s for real!

  • Each person draws a letter. The letter closest to A goes first. (Blank beats A.)
  • Draw continues clockwise (to the left) after that.
  • If no one volunteers, the person with the letter farthest from A is scorekeeper.
  • Put those letters back and draw seven (7) each.
  • Keep score like this (don’t write what’s in the parentheses):
Jimmy (First Player)
17 (first turn)
6  (second turn)
23 (total so far)
14 (third turn)
37 (total so far)		 Johnny (Second Player)
23
15
38
7
45
  • First player must put the word down with a letter on the Star (2x word)  in the middle.
  • Left to right, top to bottom; not diagonal, not bottom to top!
  • Suggestion: no more than 2 minutes per person.
  • NO! NO! NO!:
    • NO abbreviations or contractions
    • NO foreign words
    • NO proper nouns (nouns you would normally capitalize)  (Check the dictionary.)

Multiplier squares are one use only!

Tuesday, 5/30 (7): (YEE #5) SCRABBLE

YEE #5

BRING BACK ALL BOOKS AND CHROMEBOOKS!

LET’S PLAY SCRABBLE. This time it’s for real!

  • Each person draws a letter. The letter closest to A goes first. (Blank beats A.)
  • Draw continues clockwise (to the left) after that.
  • If no one volunteers, the person with the letter farthest from A is scorekeeper.
  • Put those letters back and draw seven (7) each.
  • Keep score like this (don’t write what’s in the parentheses):
Jimmy (First Player)
17 (first turn)
6  (second turn)
23 (total so far)
14 (third turn)
37 (total so far)		 Johnny (Second Player)
23
15
38
7
45
  • First player must put the word down with a letter on the Star (2x word)  in the middle.
  • Left to right, top to bottom; not diagonal, not bottom to top!
  • Suggestion: no more than 2 minutes per person.
  • NO! NO! NO!:
    • NO abbreviations or contractions
    • NO foreign words
    • NO proper nouns (nouns you would normally capitalize)  (Check the dictionary.)

Multiplier squares are one use only!

Friday, 5/26: Last time for… Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #32

Assembly Schedule for Band/Choir Show!

 

Prep Sheet for Test #32. The last one!

SMYK:___/10  Nutrition: ___/9  Movieland: ___/4   Bonuses:

Mental Floss.

  1. A house painter paints numbers on all the new houses in a neighborhood from 1-100. How many times does he have to paint the digit 9? (Not a trick; I’m just betting you can’t count.)
  2. What do all the words in this list have in common? Lead, Sow, Bass, Wind, Tear, Object
  3. During a visit to a mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criteria is that defines if a patient should be institutionalized. “Well,” said the Director, “we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask the patient to empty the bathtub.”Okay, here’s your test:
    a)  Would you use the spoon?  b)  Would you use the teacup?  c)  Would you use the bucket?
    What is the answer?
  4. Inside each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, you’ll make a familiar phrase. For example, “Thighbone/Swallowtail” conceals “High & Low.”
    • a) Skyrocketing/Trolleyman
    • b) Thermometer/Populous
    • c) Delaware/Bordering
    • d) Surprised/Trashiness
  5. One snowy night, Sherlock Holmes was in his house sitting by a fire. All of a sudden a snowball came crashing through his window, breaking it.
    Holmes got up and looked out the window just in time to see three neighborhood kids who were brothers run around a corner. Their names were John Crim, Mark Crim, and Paul Crim.
    The next day Holmes got a note on his door that read:
    “? Crim. He broke your window.”
    Which of the three Crim brothers should Sherlock Holmes question about the incident?

 

Test #32

Doodle Theme: Use the Starter Doodle!

Thursday, 5/25: YEE #4, Vocab + Relay, “A Sound of Thunder,” Homer

Tomorrow’s Test: Vocab, ASoT, Nutrition, e e cummings. Preview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hdth2DF-XjWoqHYnO-x0gxNkJ1rTqgxSuAHFjSC5Y2g/edit?usp=sharing

YEE #4.

“Alternayee, 5/25.” Anagrams. Outsiders, Midwife’s Apprentice, The Giver, Maus. (Not in that order.)

  1. Ye Mom Fierce Rover
  2. Mini Deaf Jew
  3. Apricot Do Ups
  4. Nine Pajama Legs

  1. If rentals continue at the same rate, what can you predict about DVD rentals in 2004?
  2. (2) What should the owner of Movieland do in 2003?  Why?
  3. If we extend the graph backwards and assume that the growth in sales has been steady, when can we say DVD rental probably began?

 

“Vocab, 5/25.”
 

  1. _____(ing) like a model was a fad in the ’90s.
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. Zoltan was rather ____ when he messed up the easy question in front of the whole class.
  5. He _____(ed) around the door as people left the class, hoping to hear how the test was.
  6. The escape room was like a ______ with a lot of false passages.
  7. Even though it was just ______, the rumor quickly spread anyway
  8. Mardis Gras floats are known for being very _____.
  9. His handwriting is so bad it is difficult to (de)______.
  10. Vladek kept getting angry at Artie because he didn’t care if the bank records didn’t ____ exactly.
  11. Vladek promised Anja from the beginning to never _____her.
  12. She was too _____ to resent all the things others had said to her.
  13. (2) His _____ facial expression and silent nature made him a _____ to everyone. Nobody really knew him at all.

 

ASoT.    “I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”   -Ray Bradbury

Link to Story for those at home:  http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.pdf

The Simpsons “Time and Punishment” References:

  • Crime and Punishment
  • A Sound of Thunder
  • Jurassic Park
  • 1984
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle
  • Terminator 2
  • The Flintstones
  • Carlos Casteneda

 

 

Wednesday, 5/24: YEE 4, Vocab, TS

  Poem Warm Up. Call it: “4 Words, 5/24.”

“Vocab, 5/24.” Very Tough.

  1. The roots of this word meant “to bring back together.”
  2. There was a lot of ______ about what was in the Secret Book, but nobody knew for sure.
  3. The roots of this word meant “to be utterly astounded.”
  4. The root of this word meant “wag about.”
  5. For awhile fidget spinners were in ______.
  6. The original root of this word meant “to rejoice.”
  7. The roots of this word mean “throw together thing.”
  8. The root of this word meant “to refuse.”
  9. The roots of this word meant “great soul.”
  10. The root of this word meant “zero.”
  11. This word originated in Greek mythology.
  12. Given the safety requirements and protocols, the setup for the graduation was _____(ine).
  13. The root of this word meant “dull, brutish.”

RBC!!!

  1. How many calories does one slice of cheese contain?
  2. (3) What 3 major nutrients are NOT supplied by this cheese?
  3. If you eat 2000 calories per day, what percentage of your daily limit of saturated fat is supplied?
  4. How many calories in a gram of fat?
  5. If you ate the whole package of cheese, how many calories would you consume?
  6. (2) If you need calcium but are trying to limit your saturated fat, is this cheese a good choice? Why or why not?

“A Sound of Thunder.”