Thursday, 8/22: Adjectives, Vocab + Relay, Outsiders

Tomorrow’s Test: Classwork, Adjectives, Vocab, Outsiders. Preview copy up after Period 4.


“Adjectives, 8/22.” List the adjectives in each sentence (1-4). There is one sentence with none. Write “none” for that one.

  1. With a groovy beat playing, the llama smoothly rhymed his words.
  2. A frightened 7th grader woke up from his horrible dream of a giant, purple llama.
  3. Yesterday Jimmy sadly said goodbye to his pet llama with a bad haircut.
  4. The llama on a unicycle ate a doughnut.
  5. List the five vocab words that can be used as adjectives.

“Vocab, 8/22.” bliss, infer, bleak, nonchalant, gingerly, rueful, savvy, conform, sage, fathom, connotation

  1. Ignorance is ____ means you can’t be sad about things you don’t know about.
  2. The coach yelled at me for being too ____ at practice. He said I needed to work harder.
  3. Some people called him weird, but he preferred to be called a (non-)______(ist).
  4. The old man was considered the ____ of the village because of all his experience and wisdom.
  5. The root of this word means “shape.” _____
  6. The roots of this word mean “not being concerned.” _____
  7. The root of this word was old French for “delicate and graceful.” _____
  8. sadness : bliss :: ignorance : _____
  9. hopeful : bleak :: proud : _____
  10. (4) The mystery was (un)______(able). No one had solved it in over 100 years, but the ____ _____ was able to _____ the solution from the evidence.

VOCAB RELAY!


The Outsiders.

What does every story have to have in order to be a story?

Test Section Preview.
Darry, Soda, Two-Bit, Steve, Ponyboy, Dallas, Johnny

  1. …doesn’t understand anything that isn’t “plain, hard fact”  _____
  2. Thinks Pony is a “tagalong and a kid.” _____
  3. An actual hoodlum. _____
  4. The loner of the crew. _____
  5. Goes to school “just for kicks.” _____
  6. The gang is kind of his substitute family. ____
  7. The most understanding and sympathetic one. ____