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November 20, 2024 – Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English
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Wednesday, 11/20: Warm Up, Vocab, Nazis/Vladek

“Warm Up, 11/20.” Rewrite each sentence as instructed. DO NOT USE THE WORDS BECAUSE or ALTHOUGH!

  1. We must repair the fence, or the llamas will rush through. (CD –> CX)
  2. The skinheads went bowling, but the llama stayed home. (CD –> CX)
  3. Since the llama studied, he passed.  (CX –> CD)
  4. The llama went bowling, and he went skiing.  (CD -> SIMPLE)

“Vocab, 11/20.”
670px sleep   
prestige, deprive, disheveled, suave, affectation, non sequitur, acute, prevalent, ideology, zeal

  1. Give the antonym for this guy’s look. ______
  2. (3) Figure #2 shows the _____ effects of sleep _____(ation) which is very ____ in today’s society.
  3. _____ (Not non sequitur.)
  4. _____
  5. _____
  6. _____
  7. During the Nazi occupation of Poland there was a(n) ______ shortage of food and other necessities in the Jewish community. (Not prevalent.)
  8. In The Outsiders, the Socs had both wealth and social _______.
  9. First period seems to like to interrupt class with various ______(s) and random questions.
  10. The con man _____(ly) convinced the old lady that he was in love with her in order to steal her money.
  11. The transfer of the 1936 Olympics to another country would have damaged Germany’s _____…
  12. …so they enforced their racist laws a little less _____(ously) during that time to avoid bad publicity.

“Nazi Quiz, 11/20”

1-4. The questions are on the last page of the article.

DO NOT WRITE ON THE SHEET! Write the answers in your notebook.  LETTER OK.


“Maus Quiz, 11/20.”  COPY 1-7!

  1. p77, panel 1, the one saying “Ah, Grandmother…”
  2. p77, panel 2, the one explaining.
  3. p77, panel 1, the one losing his book.
  4. p77, panel 3, the one talking.
  5. p83, the one with a pipe.
  6. The Gemeinde.  a) One of the Nazi death camps.  b) A Jewish ghetto.  c) The Jewish community organization.  d) Wolfe’s family name.  e) NOTA
  7. Stara Sosnowiec.  a) Vladek’s birth village.  b) One of the Nazi death camps.  c) A POW camp.  d) The Jewish ghetto.  e) Where Vladek’s factory was.  f) NOTA
  8. How does Anja’s father help Vladek after his first close call on the street?
  9. Who “survived him his life” the second time?
  10. What does Vladek suggest that Anja aggressively refuses?

Vladek aloud to the end of chapter 4.  (LINK to ONLINE VERSION.)