Tuesday, 4/26: Husker Du, Sentence Combining, Vocab, Giver

Checking vocabulary definitions.

“Husker Du, 4/26.” Period 1.
approach, conduct, sanction, allegory, aspect, cache, caricature, promote, contrast, complex

  1. Mr. Coward does not _______ the use of phones in class.
  2. Some people think that the Narnia series is a religious  _______.
  3. In some ways, many people’s perception of a typical seventh grader is both a stereotype and a _______ of what a real seventh grader is
  4. I politely ______(ed) Sadie about borrowing her Porsche for my date.
  5. His doctor recommended buying a goat and going water-skiing.  a) S  b) CD  c) CX
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  6. It seemed essential to eat broccoli, but I watched tv instead.  a) S  b) CD  c) CX

“Sentence Combining, 4/26.” Combine each group of short, choppy sentences into one smooth-sounding sentence. You may add, subtract, or change words. You will need to add punctuation.

  • 1a) Chuckie bounces wildly in his desk. 1b) He is the class clown. 1c) He clucks like a chicken.
  • 2a) His fingers make sounds. 2b) The sounds are scratching. 2c) They claw the desktop. 2d) The desktop is battered.

“Husker Du, 4/26.” Period 3.” Write the answer.
diligent, compelling, convene, heedless, turmoil, cordial, abundant, haggle, diffident, grovel

  1. The lawyer’s argument was so _____ the jury acquitted his client.
  2. He practiced the skate trick __(ly) until he got it right.
  3. The clown _____(tion) filled the parking lot with tiny cars.
  4.   In the fable “The Tortoise and the Hare,” the tortoise is ______ …
  5. …and the hare is _____.
  6. Please tell me what Limburger is    a) declarative  b) exclamatory  c) imperative  d) interrogative

“Sentence Combining, 4/26.” Combine each group of short, choppy sentences into one smooth-sounding sentence. You may add, subtract, or change words. You will need to add punctuation.

  • 1a) Chuckie bounces wildly in his desk. 1b) He is the class clown. 1c) He clucks like a chicken.
  • 2a) His fingers make sounds. 2b) The sounds are scratching. 2c) They claw the desktop. 2d) The desktop is battered.

“Husker Du, 4/26.” Period 4 and 5.

  1. The word television literally means…  _____  _____  _____
  2. The word homophone literally means…  _____  _____
  3. The word microbiology literally means… _____  _____  _____
  4. “Soda was like a long-legged palomino colt that has to get his nose into everything.” a)  irony  b) metaphor  c) simile  d) theme  e) foreshadowing  f) NOTA
  5. “I killed him,” he said slowly, “I killed that boy.”  a) exposition  b) inciting action  c) rising action  d) climax  e) foreshadowing  f) NOTA
  6. Which of the following types of conflict is not present in The Outsiders?    a) man vs man  b) man vs society  c) man vs nature  d) man vs himself  e) NOTA

“Sentence Combining, 4/26.” Combine each group of short, choppy sentences into one smooth-sounding sentence. You may add, subtract, or change words. You will need to add punctuation.

  • 1a) Chuckie bounces wildly in his desk. 1b) He is the class clown. 1c) He clucks like a chicken.
  • 2a) His fingers make sounds. 2b) The sounds are scratching. 2c) They claw the desktop. 2d) The desktop is battered.

“Vocabulary, 4/26.”

   
1. ______  2. ______  3. ______  4. ______
5. Everyone in the library politely tried to ______ their giggles when Mr. Calandro walked into the wall while looking at his phone.
6. Some teachers keep their classrooms very cold because they think it keeps the students from being too ____.
7. After the police mishandled the fight, it ______(ed) into a riot.
8. He tried to ______ his income by selling knives door to door.
9. The Pills ______ the Stirrings, as well as deep feelings and emotions.
10. At the Ceremony, instead of frowning at the disturbance, all the adults ______(ed) the little ones up front and chuckled at their squalling and squirming.
11. The ______ of Bill Gates’s wealth is staggering. On average, since 1986, he has made over $3700 per minute, 24 hours a day.

 

Da Givah. (7p)

  1. What causes a change in Jonas’s plan?
  2. What rule did Jonas break?  (Writing the letter is ok on this one only.) a) Leaving the dwelling at night.   b) Taking food from the Community. c) Taking his father’s bicycle.  d) All of the above.  e) None of them; he’s the Receiver-in-Training, so he can do what he wants.
  3. Jonas transmits memories of _____ to keep the planes from seeing them.
  4. (3) Name three of the things Jonas encountered that showed he was really outside the Community.
  5. Where are we in the story?  a) exposition  b) rising action  c) climax  d) falling action  e) resolution  f) NOTA

 

 

Giver Movie

Book. Movie. Why the change? Better/Worse and Why.

Please keep it out the whole time and add to it as we watch. You will use this later on.