Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English

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NIGHTLY KBARR Responding:

• 1 CD summary sentence ( , + FANBOYS)
• 1 CX opinion sentence (since, although, because…)
• 1 CX prediction sentence (ditto above; especially because)

Go over/correct Test #20.

Vladek.

Why does Artie call Vladek a “murderer”? Whom did he murder?
What do you think? What about Vladek’s feelings?

Maus II.

And Here My Troubles Began  (HERE??!)

 

 

Prep sheet for Test #20.
120 Warm Ups: ___/3  ___/5      Argument Worksheet: ___/15
Vocabulary H/W: ___ /20 Vocabulary Practices: ___/13  ___/12  ___/11

Possible Other Extra Credit: Period 3 take +3 for Vocab Relay, S/CD/CX = + 1 or +2, +1 for ellipses.

Mental Floss.

1. How can you perform a subtraction from seven so that the result will be even, but without subtracting any odd numbers?
2. What is so light that anyone on Earth can hold it, but so heavy that nobody can hold it longer than about 20 minutes?
3. At noon, you look at the old-school clock in your bedroom. The big hand is on the five and the little hand is in between the three and the four. What time is it?
4. Two fathers and two sons own 21 horses between them. Explain how it is possible to evenly divide the herd among them. (NO, you don’t get to cut up any horses!)
5. Where do you leave a “place” by closing the “window”?  (On a _____.)
6. In a small town in the country, a male cow swallowed an explosive device. The town newspaper had a front page story about it.   Which one-word headline did they use?
   * Shocking!  * How?  * Dangerous!  * Terrifying!
   * Abominable!  * What?  * Horrible! 

Test #20. Depending on your class period, you may have to finish reading Chapter 6.

PLEASE REPLACE QUESTION 32 with the answers to your period’s 120 questions. See below.

Period 1:
29. Which book was about an animal?
30. Which book was set in a dystopian future?
31. Which book was a fantasy?
32. Which book featured funny voices?

Period 3:
31. Which book yesterday involved a young spy?
32. Which book’s narrator was used to people looking at him funny?
33. Which book was a mystery with clues to help solve it?
34. Which book was a fantasy?

Period 4:
31. Which book yesterday gave the “backstory” for its famous characters?
32. Which book was set in a dystopian future?
33. Which teen fiction book sounded like it would be sad?
34. Which book were we warned might need parental approval?
35. Which book yesterday involved a girl with a strange way of hearing/seeing?

Period 5:
31. Which book yesterday was a comedy?
32. Which book was historical fiction?
33. Which book was based on an old fairy tale?
34. Which book was set in a dystopian future?
35. Which book featured some rather adult language?

Doodle Theme: avant garde

Tomorrow’s Test: Vocabulary, Argument (Pink Sheet), Vladek, Husker Du.

“Warm Up, 1/28.” What do we do with book titles when we type them?
Period One.

1. Which book was about how people’s perceptions and beliefs can change what they think the truth is?
2. Which book did we hear from that was sci-fi set in a dystopian future?
3. Which teen fiction book sounded like it would be sad?
4. Which book involved a dragon?

Bonus: What does dystopian mean?

“Warm Up, 1/28.” What do we do with book titles when we type them?
Period Three.

1. Which book was set on a ship?
2. Which book involved orphans?
3. Which book was set in a dystopian future?
4. Which book is a magical fantasy?
5. Which book is set in Florida?

Bonus: What does dystopian mean?

“Warm Up, 1/28.” What do we do with book titles when we type them?
Period Four.

1. Which book had a theme of overcoming discrimination?
2. Which book involved a place of escape?
3. Which book was a sports book?
4. (2) Which book was of the fantasy genre?

Bonus: What does dystopian mean?

“Warm Up, 1/28.” What do we do with book titles when we type them?
Period Five.

1. Which book was about a spy?
2. Which book was a mystery?
3. (2) Which books were sci-fi set in a dystopian future?
4. Which book was fantasy?

Bonus: What does dystopian mean?

 

“Vocabulary 1/28.” (11p)

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. Vladek _____(es) Artie for using too many wooden matches…
6. …because he is too “_____” to buy them.
7. Artie says Richieu’s picture on the wall of his parents’ room was a sort of ______ to him, implying that Richieu would have been a better son than he is.
8. (2) She tried to stay awake during math, but it was ______, and she finally _______(ed) to the boredom and nodded off.
9. During the TV marathon, we _____(ed) for two days on chips and pizza.
10. In The Outsiders, when we referred to a facade, we would be saying that the person was ______(ing) about their true feelings.

Vocabulary Relay! Could we have a FOUR WAY TIE?!

 

Dun Dun Duuuuuuh!

120 Seconds. Are you ready to be chosen?

Audience: Tomorrow on the Test, I will ask one question about each of today’s presentations. You may rely either on your photographic memory or on any notes you might take during the talks.

 

Vladek

Checking Show-Me-You-Know sentences.

“Warm Up, 1/27.” NOT collaborative. (3)

Name at least three books we have heard about during 120 Seconds. You may name up to 2 more for extra credit.

Tomorrow on the Warm Up, I will ask one question about each of today’s presentations. You may rely either on your photographic memory or on any notes you might take during the talks.

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“Vocabulary, 1/27.” Collaborative. (11)

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____ (It’s a paper clip. The subheading says, “The only tool you’ll ever need.”)
5. The diplomats rushed to ______ together a treaty before everyone changed his mind.
6. There used to be a TV show called The ____ Gourmet which showed you how to eat well without spending a lot of money.
7. Art Spiegelman once published magazines of ____ comics like “The Prisoner of Hell Planet.”
8. It is _____ to whine about things that you can’t change.
9. Horror movies are sort of ________ for many people.
10. On the train, Vladek ______(ed) and “didn’t let on” he was a Jew. Spiegelman represents this by having Vladek wear a pig mask.
11. “I never knew a person more _____ than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.”
12. Which vocabulary word has prefix that means BOTH? _____
    

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13. Bonus: #5: S, CD, CX?
14. Bonus: #6: S, CD, CX?

 

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Dun Dun Duuuuuuh!

120 Seconds. Are you ready to be chosen?

Audience: Tomorrow on the Warm Up, I will ask one question about each of today’s presentations. You may rely either on your photographic memory or on any notes you might take during the talks.

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Vladek.

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