Tuesday, 10/6: Roots, Vocab, Outsiders

I will be checking: Vocabulary Definitions.

“Warm Up, 10/6.” (10p) Use your Roots Sheet (and a dictionary if you want) to come up with the word that matches its literal meaning.

  1. “between time”
  2. “self starting”
  3. “self write”
  4. “huge sound”
  5. “tiny sound”
  6. “distant sound”
  7. “between throw thing”
  8. “forward throw thing”
  9. “earth measuring”
  10. “earth writing”

“Vocabulary Practice I, 10/6.” (10p)

 

The Outsiders. OPEN MOUTH Quiz on Chapter 6. It’s OK to write the CAPITAL letter.

  1. Who stopped the greasers from jumping Cherry when she came by the vacant lot? a) Dally  b) Pony  c) Soda  d) Two-Bit  e) Darry
  2. What was his probable reason for this?  a) He’s secretly in love with her.  b) His previous experience talking to her told him she wasn’t like the other Socs.  c) He was afraid of Soc retaliation.  d) It was the agreed deal before the big rumble.  e) NOTA
  3. How did Dally know about the church?  a) He’d hidden there before.  b) All the older greaser knew about it.  c) He used to live in the country.  d) A relative told him about it.  e) NOTA
  4. Which is one of the reasons Dally gave Johnny for not turning himself in?  a) Dally would get in trouble  b) Johnny would get the electric chair.  c) He didn’t want Johnny to end up like him.  d) The boys are worried about him  e) His parents don’t care.
  5. When Johnny announces that he wants to turn himself in, Pony disagrees, and wants to stay in the church because he’s afraid.  a) True  b) False
  6. What do we learn about Dally when he talks to Johnny about jail?   a) Dally is proud of his past.  b) Dally is cold and mean.  c) Dally has jail savvy.  d) Dally cares about something.  e) NOTA
  7. Why would Johnny be “having the time of his life” in the church?  a) He wants to pay back for what he did to Bob.  b) He feels needed for the first time.  c) He likes little kids.  d) He thinks the cops will go easy on him.  e) He secretly wants to die.
  8. Johnny’s behavior (not scared, having fun, very decisive) inside the burning church is both ironic and not ironic.  a) True  b) False
  9. When Pony asks about Dally and Johnny, and Jerry Wood “studie(s) his wedding ring,” what’s going on?  a) He’s thinking about his wife.  b) It’s still hot from the fire.  c) It’s stuck, and painful, so he pauses to adjust it.  d) He’s stalling, trying to think of how to break the news.  e) NOTA
  10. It is ironic when Jerry says, “…(we) think you were sent straight from Heaven.”  a) True  b) False
  11. How/when does Pony finally realize that Darry really does care about him?  a) When he says, “Oh Ponyboy, your hair…”  b) When he reads the letter from Soda.  c) When Darry offers him a cigarette.  d) When Darry starts crying.  e) When he rescues Pony from the fire.
  12. The scene in the church would be considered part of the ________ of the story.   a) climax  b) inciting action  c) exposition  d) rising action  e) NOTA