Friday, 5/6: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #31

Prep sheet for Test #31:
Flying Machine: ___/12     Husker Du: ___/6  ___/6  ___/6    Vocab h/w: ___/20
Vocab Practices: ___/11  ___/10  ___/10
Other Extra Credit: +3 for 4th period for Vocabulary Relay!

Mental Floss. (Some Reruns!)

1. Figure out what the animals are! (Example: a dull person  = boar.)
   a) first you get a parking ticket, then you get this   b) hair-control foam    c) to run away or escape
2. Wacky Wordie:  PinnAcLeS  (Pinnacles are mountain peaks.)
3. You have 27 marbles. You have 4 cups. Put an odd number of marbles in each cup.
4. Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive?
5. Inside each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, lo & behold, you’ll make a familiar phrase. For example,  Skyrocket/Trolleyman conceals Rock & Roll.
   a) Surprised/Trashiness   b) Delaware/Bordering    c) Thundershower/Intellectual
6. A magazine competition invited people to come up with “invented” inventions of the cyber-age. For example, a solar powered clothes drier (a rope) and a hand-held word processor (a pencil). Can you guess what this one is?
   It is a portable arcade. A hand-held amusement resource with no cartridges or batteries. Access games of speed, dexterity, memory, cunning. Produce magical effects or construct lofty towers. Some games can increase your income.

Test #31.