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Thursday, 9/2: Adjectives, Vocab + Relay, Outsiders – Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English
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Thursday, 9/2: Adjectives, Vocab + Relay, Outsiders

Checking KBARR.

“Husker Du? 9/2″(Do You Remember?) Part of  Tomorrow’s Test (#2)

  1. The root of this word means shape. _______  a) bliss  b) infer  c) bleak  d) nonchalant  e) gingerly  f) rueful  g) savvy  h) conform  i) sage  j) connotation
  2. “If it weren’t for the gang, _______ would never have known what love and affection are.” Which Outsiders character?
  3. Which word doesn’t belong? a) evaluate  b) predict  c) question  d) summarize  e) react
  4. she: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th person?
  5. Even though words like gross, ugly, fun, and weird are technically adjectives, they are really _____, and not ______.  a) descriptions, modifications  b) opinions, adjectives  c) opinions, descriptions  d) modifiers, descriptions  e) articles, opinions

Review: My Room is Such a Mess” due next Thursday, 9/5.
Show me the most nightmarish room imaginable. I want to feel, see, hear, taste (ewww), smell everything.
1 page (350+ words), Google Doc shared with me + printed, CREATIVE title.
mess(y), gross, disgusting, dirty, stinky, etc.
No opinions, just WHAT DOES IT LOOK (Sound, Smell, Feel, Taste) LIKE?


“Adjectives, 9/2.” (6p) Copy the underlined word and say whether it is an adjective or not.

  1. savvy Kal-El  knew just what to do. (Solo Bonus for +1: who is Kal El?)
  2. The running criminal was finally tackled.
  3. The running criminal was finally tackled.
  4. I hate running in PE.
  5. “He liked fights, blondes, and for some unfathomable reason, school.”
  6. “He liked fights, blondes, and for some unfathomable reason, school.”

“Vocabulary, 9/2.”  All blanks are vocabulary words except #12.

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  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. The Socs are the _____ social class in 1967 Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  6. Maybe his cold unfeeling exterior is simply a _____ that hides his true feelings.
  7. Pony _____(ed) at the thought of his brother being a drop-out. It was a painful memory.
  8. mask : facade :: resource : _____
  9. “Guess what I’ve been in jail for?” asked Dally, grinning ____(ly).
  10. Pony can’t understand why the Socs are so ______ of the greasers. “Why do they hate us so much?”
  11. It was rather _______ that her dog was run over by an Animal Rescue vehicle.
  12. Even after I read the poem three times, the meaning still ______(ed) me.
  13. *(Bonus: Not a vocab word.) The root cred, as in incredulous and incredible and credit, means to _______.

Bonus: If incredulous means you can’t believe something, what might credulous mean? (Don’t say, “You CAN believe it.” It’s more than that.)


Outsiders Chapter 2.

What is required to actually have a STORY?