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.
- With a groovy beat playing, the llama smoothly rhymed his words.
- A frightened 7th grader woke up from his horrible dream of a giant, purple llama.
- Yesterday Jimmy sadly said goodbye to his pet llama with a bad haircut.
- The llama on a unicycle ate a doughnut.
- 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
- Ignorance is ____ means you can’t be sad about things you don’t know about.
- The coach yelled at me for being too ____ at practice. He said I needed to work harder.
- Some people called him weird, but he preferred to be called a (non-)______(ist).
- The old man was considered the ____ of the village because of all his experience and wisdom.
- The root of this word means “shape.” _____
- The roots of this word mean “not being concerned.” _____
- The root of this word was old French for “delicate and graceful.” _____
- sadness : bliss :: ignorance : _____
- hopeful : bleak :: proud : _____
- (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
- …doesn’t understand anything that isn’t “plain, hard fact” _____
- Thinks Pony is a “tagalong and a kid.” _____
- An actual hoodlum. _____
- The loner of the crew. _____
- Goes to school “just for kicks.” _____
- The gang is kind of his substitute family. ____
- The most understanding and sympathetic one. ____