Tuesday, 12/6: Click/Correct Test #14, Vocab, 120 Seconds Prep, MAUS

Please Click in your answers for Test #14.

Debrief Test #14.


“Vocab, 12/6.” succumb, subsist, presumptuous, avant-garde, reproach, cathartic, frugal, cobble, futile, dissemble, ambivalent
    

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. It would be ___ of a dishwasher to tell the master chef how to do things.
  6. Much of the agriculture in the rest of the world is made up of _____(ence) farms, that barely grow enough food for the family working on it.
  7. MacGyver could ____ together almost anything from a bazooka to a hang-glider from bits of trash he found lying around.
  8. After the long siege, the city knew it was ____ to resist any longer…
  9. …and they finally _____(ed) to the stronger army.
  10. She blamed him for the accident and always looked at him with _______ afterwards.
  11. This word’s roots mean feeling both ways. _____
  12. This word’s meaning evolved like this: fruit -> economical -> ______.
  13. The words roots meant to take before. _____

120 Seconds Begins TOMORROW. Volunteers?

Writing your intro. You need about 200 words.

  1. Start with a little hook:
    • Imagine yourself…
    • Throughout history mankind has…
    • It was a dark and stormy night…
    • What do you call a… (joke)
    • Once upon a time…
    • Have you ever wondered…
    • What if…
    • Jimmy was a boy who…
    • Scary, gripping, and difficult to put down…
    • Etc.
  2. Give us the required info:
    • Title
    • Author
    • Genre (Not just fiction/non; we want something like romance, sci fi, horror, mystery, fantasy, comedy, historical fiction, etc.)
  3. Time for the 5 W’s for the BOOK:
    • This is the story of…
    • This book is about…
    • Set in the future…
    • Not too much detail; you have less than a minute.
  4. Now to set up the PASSAGE:
    • This is the part of the book where…
    • This is the scene when…
    • _____ is about to _____

Vladek.

  1. What is one reason Artie says he became an artist?
  2. What possession of Anja’s is Artie so interested in finding?
  3. Why is Vladek unfriendly with Artie on p98?
  4. What is Artie a prisoner of in “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”?

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