Wednesday, 5/4 (25): HD, NVAA, V, TS

Husker Du, 5/4.

Period 1: Test #1. Answer not Letter.

  1. She is a very good bowler  a) adjective  b) not an adjective
  2. She bowls very well.  a) adjective  b) not an adjective
  3. She is a savvy basketball player.  a) adjective  b) not an adjective
  4. Do you savvy what I’m saying? a) adjective  b) not an adjective
  5. The Outsiders has a _____ narrator.  a) 1st person b) 2nd person c) 3rd person  d) 4th person

Period 2: Test #5. Answer not Letter.

  1. Is this a fragment?  a) Fragment  b) Run-On  c) Complete Sentence
  2. Although the llama wandered too close to the fire.  a) Fragment  b) Run-On  c) Complete Sentence
  3. When Pony asks about Dally and Johnny, and Jerry Wood “studies his wedding ring,” what’s going on?  (p95)  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
  4. 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.  f) NOTA
  5. That scene would be the _____ of the Pony vs. Darry storyline.  a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax  e) falling action  e) resolution

Period 3: Test #8. Answer not Letter.

  1. That embarrassing moment when you realize that your llama just wrote a run on sentence.  a) Fragment  b) Run On  c) Correct Sentence
  2. Up, up, and away in my beautiful llama balloon.    a) Fragment  b) Run On  c) Correct Sentence
  3. The llama that most people watch for lives in San Marcos. Choose the correct MAIN S/V combo.  a) llama lives  b) people know  c) most know  d) people watch  e) NOTA
  4. _____ llama was selected for the fair.  a) Charles’  b) Charles’s  c) Charle’s   d) NOTA
  5. _____ llama is that?  a) whose  b) who’se  c) who’s  d) NOTA

Period 5: Test #6. Answer not Letter.

  1. All llamas aren’t like that you have to believe me.   a) Fragment  b) Run-On  c) Complete Sentence
  2. While the llama is a quadruped, he also has fins for swimming.   a) Fragment  b) Run-On  c) Complete Sentence
  3. In the beginning, there was nothing but llamas.   a) Fragment  b) Run-On  c) Complete Sentence
  4. Up, up, and away in my beautiful llama balloon.   a) Fragment  b) Run-On  c) Complete Sentence
  5. What is Pony’s main motivation for wanting to be in the rumble?  a) Revenge for Johnny.  b) He likes to fight. c) To prove himself to Dally.  d) Loyalty to the gang.  e) All of the above.  f) NOTA

Period 6: Test #2. Answer not Letter.

  1. Every story has to have a  ____.   a) middle  b) person  c) conclusion  d) message  e) conflict  f) theme
  2. The root cred means…   a) truth  b) crazy  c) pay  d) believe  e) wild  f) possible  g) NOTA
  3. Which word doesn’t belong? a) evaluate  b) predict  c) question  d) summarize  e) react
  4. you:  a) first person b) second person c) third person  d) fourth 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

 

“NVAA, 5/4.” On Back of Yellow Sheet. (10)

Copy the sentence and label the Nouns, Verbs, ADJectives, and ADVerbs.

The purple llama roared loudly in our scared faces as we quietly whimpered like little babies.

“Vocab, 5/4.”

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. (2) The grisly murder in the ____ graveyard brought much _____ to the little town of St. Petersburg.
  5. The root of this word meant “expenditure.”
  6. Suzie got carsick riding on the _____road all morning.
  7. I hadn’t studied for the very difficult test, so it was a _____ to me when it was cancelled.
  8. Jonas was kidnapped by singing aliens is NOT a _____ explanation for the ending of The Giver.
  9. He spent all week trying to _____ his mom after he got in trouble, so he might be able to go to the party.
  10. Tom _____(ed) the boys into paying him to do his work for him.
  11. ______ teacher aides must fill out an application by the deadline.
  12. The root of this word meant “inflammation of the skin.”
  13. The root of this word meant “household.”

“Tom Sawyer 12-13 Quiz.” (6p) NOT Collaborative.

  1. Tom finally stopped thinking about the murder for a while, because…?
  2. (2) Why did Aunt Polly think Tom had been taking the Painkiller all that time? What was he really doing with it?
  3. Give an example from Chapter 13 of Tom insisting on doing things “the hard way” or “by the book.”
  4. Why are the boys’ consciences bothering them at the end of chapter 13?
  5. Why does Mark Twain call the boys “curiously inconsistent pirates”? (Last line of Chapter 13.) “Because they are pirates who  ________   ________.”  (Hint: It also might be called ironic. Hint II: See your answer to the previous question.)

 

Read aloud ch. 14 and 15. Finish 15 tonight.

Time? Movie…