Thursday, 4/25: Agreement, HD, Debrief Test #29, Vocab, TS, Essay Rubric Run-through

“Tutorial” Schedule.

Tomorrow’s Test: HD for your class, Vocab, Tom Sawyer, Other Stuff from Class.


“Agreement, 4/25.” Write the subject and an appropriate verb. Do not repeat verbs.

  1. Many summer camps, with lots of money to spend, ___bought new equipment.
  2. The green wheelbarrow behind those bushes ____ a good cleaning.
  3. A robin, with her babies, ____ in the tree.
  4. Josh and Jimmy ____to join the video class.
  5. A box of Ivan’s paintings ____on sale today.

“Husker Du, 4/25.”
Period 1: Test #12: What promise to his father does Artie break at the beginning of Maus?
Period 3: Test #14: Write a complex sentence that doesn’t use the words because or although.
Period 4: Test #20: Why did the Chief Elder make a joke about chastising Asher’s old teacher?
Period 5: Test #16: Why were the roads in the shape of a swastika in the panel after Vladek and Anja escape the ghetto?
Period 6: Test #13: Artie very often shows Vladek telling his story as he pedals his exercise bike. What does this probably symbolize?


“Vocab, 4/25. If the word is used correctly, write Yes. If it is used incorrectly, write No.

  1. The only reason he said no was to spite me.
  2. The city was so sprawl, it took forever to get anywhere.
  3. Puzzles are meant to perplex.
  4. I was full of incense after my mom took my phone away.
  5. Since I began studying, I have seen my grade surge.
  6. My low grades dismayed my mom.
  7. My failure incensed my mom.
  8. The idyllic I saw on the Travel Channel is where I want to go on vacation.
  9. The jury didn’t believe his alibi, so he was convicted.
  10. There has been an increase in the amount of violence instigated by gangs.
  11. Interest in the old school singer surged after her song was used in a movie.
  12. I was so alibi that my mom let me off easy.
  13. Urban sprawl is an environmental problem in very large cities.
  14. Serene is a noun.
  15. He was sprawled on the floor after the earthquake.
  16. Good parenting involves spite.
  17. Surge and sprawl are similar in meaning.
  18. After the incident the school instigated an investigation into what happened.
  19. The bad call which cost them the game incensed the home team.
  20. I liked the serenity of the idyllic little village.

Rubric / Example Essay / Example Evaluation

Essays will be shared Monday!


Tom Sawyer aloud.