Wednesday, 4/6: HD, Agreement, Vocab, Essay

Husker Du, 4/6.

Period One and Period Two – Test #19. Answer not Letter.

  1. What does the 5000 pound mouse represent?  a) The guilt about the success of Maus.  b) The success of Maus.  c) All the deaths in Auschwitz.  d) His father’s memory.  e) NOTA
  2. According to Spiegelman, what was the real purpose of Maus?  a) Auschwitz 101  b) To show how heroic Vladek was  c) To tell the story of the Holocaust  d) To explore his relationship with his father  e) NOTA
  3. What does the word ubiquitous mean?  a) trendy  b) popular  c) wise   d) common  e) NOTA
    Insert Commas.
  4. Most of the time travelers worry about their llama getting lost.
  5. Sid waited for the llama to arrive so he could get a ride in his hot new Camaro.

Period Three: – Test #20. Answer not Letter.

  1. Giver is written in_____ person.  a) 1st  b) 2nd  c) 5th  d) 3rd
  2. Which character doesn’t belong with the others?    a) Jonas   b) Gran-Da (“Old Glory”)   c) The Giver    d) Jane the Midwife e) Ponyboy   f) Alyce  g) NOTA
  3. In the movie, the Chief Elder tells The Giver that he’s being ___ in his training of Jonas.   a) careless  b) dangerous  c) inappropriate  d) lazy  e) NOTA
  4. Which one is the allegory? a) Mickey Mouse acting like a human.  b) “Motto”  c) You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.  d) Mind your own business.  e) C and D.  f) “The Three Little Pigs”  g) NOTA
  5. Up, up, and away flew my beautiful llama balloon.    a) Fragment  b) Run On  c) Correct Sentence

Period Five – Test #13. Answer not Letter.
a) succumb  b) subsist  c) presumptuous  d) reproach  e) cathartic  f) frugal  g) cobble  h) futile  i) dissemble  j) ambivalent

  1. The roots of this word meant “to bring low.” _____
  2. This word’s roots meant “to bring back close.” _____
  3. This word’s roots meant “leaky” and “pour.” _____
  4. The llama ate several hotdogs, went on a ride, and ate several more.  a) Simple  b) Compound  c) Complex
  5. I saw a llama with an eye-patch skating into a snowdrift. a) Simple  b) Compound  c) Complex

Period Six – Test #10. Answer not Letter.

  1. The real reason Alyce leaves the village is that she…  a) The midwife hates her.  b) She can’t express the sadness inside her.  c) She isn’t very good at the job.  d) She doesn’t like the job.  e) She’s sick of the village.  f) NOTA
  2. Why won’t Alyce talk to Magister Reese?  a) She thinks she won’t understand what he says.  b) She thinks she’s unworthy.  c) She doesn’t like him.  d) He won’t talk to her.  e) He seems mean.  f) NOTA
  3. Our main conflict is Alyce vs ______.  a) the world  b) the village  c) herself  d) the midwife  e) NOTA
  4. The upstairs library is a great place to quietly study.  Adjectives?  a) upstairs  b) great, quietly  c) upstairs, great, quietly  d) upstairs, great  e) NOTA
  5. you: a) first person b) second person c) third person  d) fourth person

“Agreement, 4/6.”

  1. The rice or the beans ___ eaten before the llama steak is served.
  2. Either your teachers or your pet llama ___ what you need to help you flourish.
  3. Neither the llama nor the flying lizards ____ lemonade any more.
  4. Either the llamas or the tree ____ added to the pic after it was taken.
  5. ____ the llama or the flying lizards been to the Moon yet?
  6. _____ Jimmy and his mom want to come with us to the llama party?

Correct Pink Sheet Exercise 12.


“Vocab, 4/6.” Let’s race?

  1. The meeting fell apart when everyone’s ideas started to _____, and they all started talking about different things.
  2. The police ____(ed) the neighborhood trying to find someone who heard something that night.
  3. Her diamond tiara was a little _____ for the somber funeral.
  4. This word can also mean a gap in time.
  5. When the white man landed on Mars, everyone in the whole town ____(ed) on the scene.
  6. His first week of school was not _____; he failed two tests and left his homework on the bus.
  7. The root of this word means “life.”
  8. The prefix of this word means “not.”
  9. The root of this word meant “to display.”
  10. The root of this word meant “toss in a sheet.”
  11. The roots of this word meant “to flow into.”
  12. The roots of this word meant “to thoroughly perform.”

ESSAY—> BOB p304.

Use one of your Reason/Evidence/Sources to do like they show on p304. Now do 2 more.

Opposing Claim: p305