Month: May 2024

No Homework this week due to SBAC.

This week’s Schedules. No “Advisory” or “Tutorial.” Tuesday/Thursday: 1,3,5.  Wednesday/Friday: 2,4,6.

 

Chromies and Headphones for FastBridge:

1. Check your sound volume BEFORE YOU LOG IN TO FASTBRIDGE – you need to hear computer instructions.
2. Fastbridge link. (https://slcusd.illuminatehc.com/login)
3. Sign in to Illuminate using the RED google button.
4. Select the blue Continue to Portal bar.
5. Select FastBridge Learning from the side menu.
6. Select FastTrack Reading

Finished? Work on Other Class homework or ESSAY!

Prep Sheet for Test #31:
SMYK:___/10 Packet: ___/20  Butterflies: ___/10  Elephants:___/9  Twins:___/7  TS Quiz: ___/8   Other Bonus:

 

Mental Floss.

1. A horse has a five foot rope tied to its neck. There is a bale of hay seven feet away. Without breaking the rope or any help, the horse was able to reach the hay. How?
2. A hot dog vendor at a soccer game sells one half of his supply of hot dogs during the first half of the game. During intermission, he sells a total of five hot dogs. During the second half, he sells three eighths of his original supply. He is left with only four hot dogs. How many did he have to start with?
3. Even if you give this to someone else, you still keep it. What is it?
4. If men have two hands, and monkeys have four hands, what has three hands?

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Husker Du is 24-30
Period 1 and 5: Test #6,  a) barrage  b) circumvent  c) reminisce  d) sullen  e) siege  f) defunct  g) exploit  h) delirious  i) dispel  j) pensive

1. The adventurer’s ____(s) made for a great novel.
2. The root of this word meant “to drive away.”  _______
3. The school newspaper has been __ for a long while, but they hope to revive it next year. 
4. The root of this word meant solitary, not wanting company. _____
5. The root of this word evolved from “to weigh” to “to think.” _____
6. I was _____ and bored when Mom made me go to my sister’s ballet recital.
7. The large farm owners are often accused of ____(ing) the workers who pick the crops.

Period 3 and 4: Test #16, a) quarantine  b) hypochondria  c) pandemonium  d) defray  e) miser  f) resolute  g) intercede  h) disgruntled  i) wallow  j) pauper

1. The root of this word meant “poor.” _____
2. The roots of this word meant “undo the cost.”_____
3. The original root of this word meant “to disintegrate or dissolve.”_____
4. Artie is worried about furthering the racist stereotype of the ____(ly) Jew, but Vladek actually fits it.
5. The roots of this word meant “the soft part under the ribs.” _____
6. The roots of this word meant “go between.” _____
7. The ______ customers who were scammed…

Period 6: Test #21, a) anachronism  b) archaic  c) imperious  d) vapid  e) brood  f) poignant g) deft  h) relish

1. After the accident which killed his brother, he spent weeks _____(ing) about it.
2. The world of The Giver seems very ____ and meaningless to us even if it might be safer.
3. Percy Jackson’s father, Poseidon, is known as one of the more ______ of the Greek gods.
4. The ending of the movie was so _____ that everyone left the theater in tears.
5. Jonas ____(ed) his free time with his friends and was worried about losing that during his training.
6. The root of this word meant “lacking in flavor.”_____
7. The root of this word meant “to poke.”______

 

Test #31.

Long Break/Lunch Schedule.

Tomorrow’s Test: HD for your class, Vocab, Save Spirit Week, Tom Sawyer

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“Husker Du, 5/2.”
Period 1: Test #6, 15-21
Period 3: Test #16, 23-27
Period 4: Test #16, 23-27
Period 5: Test #6, 15-21
Period 6: Test #21, 25-30

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“Twins Quiz.” (7)

1. What kind of words were you supposed to CIRCLE?
2. What is the type of diagram on p356 called?
3. True or False? Annie and Elizabeth are “mirror-image” twins.
4. (2) List the 2 things you wrote under “Elizabeth.”
5. Where was the article taken from?
6. “Identical but not the _____.”

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“Vocab, 5/2.” windfall, gaudy, appease, dismal, prospective, dupe, sumptuous, plausible, alacrity, notoriety, sinuous

 

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. The root of this root was “a bend.”
5. The root of this word is the same as that of the word pacify.
6. The root of this word meant “known.”
7. The root of this word meant “worthy of clapping.”
8. The roots of this word meant “evil days.”
9. The origin of this word had to do with fruit.
10. The root of this word meant “distant view.”
11. The root of this word meant “spending.”
12. The root of this word meant “enjoyment or merrymaking.”
13. This word would be an synonym for our previous vocab word boon.

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“Tom Sawyer Quiz, 5/2.” (8)

1. (2) (Last paragraph, p41)”But all trials bring their compensations.” (In this case, a “trial” is a hardship; something difficult that you go through..)
   What was Tom’s “trial”? What was his “compensation”?
2. (3) Give 3 reasons why the boys of St. Petersburgh admire Huck even though he’s poor and homeless.
3. Why was Huck carrying a dead cat?
4. What happens to Tom’s pulled tooth?
5. What does Tom say to the schoolmaster that makes him so angry?

 

Tom Sawyer, Chapter 9: Murder in the Graveyard!

“Tutorial” Schedule. (Sigh)

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“Husker Du, 5/1.”
Period 1: Test #6, 7,8, 22-25
Period 3: Test #16, 7-10, 19, 20
Period 4: Test #16, 7-10, 19, 20
Period 5: Test #6, 7,8, 22-25
Period 6: Test #21, 7-11

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“Elephants Quiz.”

1. (3) List the 3 effects you double-underlined.
2. Effect 1:
3. Cause 2:
4. Effect 2:
5. Cause 3:
6. Effect 3:
7. What kind of sentence do most signal words signal? (S, CD, CX?)

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“Vocab, 5/1.” windfall, gaudy, appease, dismal, prospective, dupe, sumptuous, plausible, alacrity, notoriety, sinuous
              

 

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Tom Sawyer

 

“Tom Sawyer Quiz, 5/1.”

1. (2) (Last paragraph, p41)”But all trials bring their compensations.” (In this case, a “trial” is a hardship; something difficult that you go through..)
   What was Tom’s “trial”? What was his “compensation”?
2. (3)Give 3 reasons why the boys of St. Petersburgh admire Huck even though he’s poor and homeless.