Tuesday, 12/3: Warm Up, Vocab, Vladek

“Warm Up, 12/3.”

1-11, list each vocab word, and based on the SMYK starters, label each word’s part of speech. They  are noun, verb, or adjective. (Actually one is sometimes used as a noun. Bonus for which one.


“Vocab, 12/3.” succumb, subsist, presumptuous, avant-garde, reproach, cathartic, frugal, cobble, futile, dissemble, ambivalent
    

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. It would be ___ of a dishwasher to tell the master chef how to do things. (2 possible)
  6. Much of the agriculture in the rest of the world is made up of _____(ence) farms, that barely grow enough food for the family working on it.
  7. MacGyver could ____ together almost anything from a bazooka to a hang-glider from bits of trash he found lying around.
  8. After the long siege, the city knew it was ____ to resist any longer…
  9. …and they finally _____(ed) to the stronger army.
  10. She blamed him for the accident and always looked at him with _______ afterwards.
  11. This word’s roots mean feeling both ways. _____
  12. This word’s meaning evolved like this: fruit -> economical -> ______.
  13. When Vladek told Artie, “It was good you got it outside your system,” he meant that it was probably _____ for Artie to create “PotHP.”

Maus Quiz, 12/3.” (7)

  1. Why would Vladek be “more attached to thing than to people”?
  2. What is one reason Artie says he became an artist?
  3. Why is Vladek upset with Artie on p100?
  4. ID: p101, Panel 7, the one in the dress.
  5. What is Artie a prisoner of in “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”?
  6. (2) What were the two main things Mala said about “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”?

 

Maus Aloud, Chapter 5: Mouse Holes.  (LINK to ONLINE VERSION.)