Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English

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“Warm Up, 11/16.”

Use the word running in three different sentences: as a verb, as an adjective, and as a noun. Please label which is which.

Correct Test #12.

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Friday, 11/13/15.

Prep sheet for Test #12:
Weather Homework: ___/15  Weather Quiz: ___/11  Bus Schedule: ___/7
Vocabulary: ___/13  ___/15  ___/10
Other Extra Credit: (May include… +3 for 3rd and 5th period for Grammar Relay, +1 for atheist. Other extra credit should be rolled into the assignment it was a part of.)

Mental Floss.

1. From what can you take away the whole, and still have some left?
2. I am more microscopic than microscopic; I am more minuscule than minuscule. I am smaller than small and I am tinier than tiny. Yet surprisingly, I am still big. What am I?
3. Wacky Wordy. What 6-word phrase is represented?
   

   T A H W

   M U S T

   D O W N

4. Wacky Wordy: (2 words, one hyphenated)
   1. Do Do
   2. Dew Dew
   3. Due Due
5. If men have two hands, and monkeys have four hands, what has three hands?
6. A cat had three kittens: Mopsy, Topsy, and Spot. What was the mother’s name. Remember to please capitalize the name of the momma kitty when you write.
7. What do these three things have in common? Corn, Weasel, Balloon

Test #12.
Word List for Husker Du Grammar (#21-25).
noun, verb, adjective, adverb, subject, predicate, interjection, cheese
You won’t use them all, and some might be used more than once.
Test #12.

Doodle Theme: “A Perfect World.”

Tomorrow’s Test: Vocabulary Review, RBC (p374), Husker Du Grammar, MWA.

“Vocabulary Practice, 11/12.” Write the word. (12p)

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. We sat there, ___(ed) in his fascinating shipwreck tale.
6. The theme of Richard Cory is that what you ______ is not necessarily what the reality is.
7. compelling : boring :: scarce : _____
8. “Now, now, don’t be ______. Speak up!”
9. I was ____ when I saw the 5/10 rating from the guest teacher!
10. Cigarette smoking has ___(ed) since 1967 to its lowest rate ever.
11. Everyone promised to ____ by Judge Judy’s decision.
12. Which word best captures the Soc’s attitude  (attitude!) toward the greasers? ____

Grammar Relay.

1. “Intensifies” an adjective:______
2. Only these have a past, present, future:_____
3. A person, place, or thing:_____
4. Answers the questions, Which one? What kind? How many? _____
5. Another name for the main verb in a sentence: ____
6. Another name for the main noun in a sentence:____
7. WOW! is an example of one:_____
8. And, but, or are examples of:____
9. The subject of an imperative sentence is always _____.
10. I, we, me are are ____-person pronouns.

“RBC, p375: RBS, 11/12.” Write the answer, not the letter. (7p +3 just for doing the sheet before it was due.)

1. What did you answer for #1?  a) Grand  b) Delaware  c) Lincoln  d) Lawrence  e) NOTA / I didn’t answer this question.
2. What did you answer for #2? a) weekday  b) weekend  c) holiday  d) I didn’t answer this question.
3. What is the fourth stop on the route?
4. What did you answer for #4?  a) 9:20  b) 9:52  c) 9:22  d) 8:57  e) NOTA / I didn’t answer this question.
5. What did you circle for question #5?  a) A  b) B  c) C  d) D  e) I didn’t circle anything.
6. About how many hours of the day does this schedule show? a) 5  b) 7 1/2  c) 12  d) 17  e) You can’t tell.
7. If you wanted to travel from Memorial Hospital to Lawrence Station on this line, and you catch the 8:14 bus, what time will you arrive at Lawrence Station?  a) 8:14  b) 8:25  c) 7:55  d) 8:28  e) You can’t tell.

Outsiders Project Rubrics.

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In your notebook: One SWBS sentence (______ wanted…but…so…) for Chapter 7 – The Devil.
Bonus for a second one.

Have we had an inciting incident/action yet? If so, what was it?
Predictions?

No school tomorrow.

“Vocabulary, 11/10.” (15p)

1. What a(n) ______(ing) smile!
2. _____
3. “I’m not paranoid! I’m _____ about being apprehended!”
4. (2) “When applying for a job, always remember that the most ____ person is the person who can hide his ____(ce) best.”
5. Give an example of a derivative of the root ject.
6. (2) In the fable “The Tortoise and the Hare,” the tortoise is ______ and the hare is ______.
7. The clown _____(tion) filled the parking lot with tiny cars.
8. I really like mystery novels because of all the adventure and _____.
9. In his classroom, the least ___ is met with serious consequences.
10. The atheist’s book aims to ____the notion of a heavenly afterlife. (Not diminish. +1 for what an atheist is.)
11. Dally obviously has great _____ for the law and tries to circumvent it as often as he can.
12. The three hour Advanced Placement test was very _____. She took a long nap afterward.
13. He was ___(ed) to his room until his homework was finished.

Correct RBC, p346-347. (5p + 10p)

“RBC, p346-347.” (11p)

1. The horizontal lines on p346 represent…
2. (p346) Many of the satellite photos we see on tv and on the ‘net are provided by the NOAA. What does that abbreviation stand for?
3. On a graph like the one marked A on p346, we read the data…  a) right to left, and bottom to top  b) left to right, and bottom to top  c) right to left, and top to bottom  d) left to right, and top to bottom  e) It doesn’t matter.
4. On p346,  °F means…
   

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5. In the context of weather (p347), the word precipitation means…  a) snow  b) rain  c) ice/hail  d) any of the above  e) none of the above
6. What does the big capital H on the map on p347 mean?
7. What do the shaded bands on the map on p347 represent?
8. (p347) Areas of low pressure seem to be associated with…  a) warm temperatures  b) a lot of wind  c) flooding  d) precipitation e) cheese
9. Which of these is the warmest city on the map on p347?  a) San Francisco  b) Las Vegas  c) Honolulu  d) Phoenix  e) Miami
10. (p347) Which of these cities has weather that is most similar to our current weather?  a) San Francisco  b) Billings  c) Raleigh  d) Phoenix  e) Miami
11. According to the map on p347, about how far is it from San Francisco to Salt Lake City?  a) 350 miles  b) 1000 miles  c) 1500 miles  d) 750 miles  e) You can’t tell.

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Copy homework into planner. Add to List #6: perceive. Cross off of List #7: palpable.

“Vocabulary Review, 11/9.” (Lists 6-9) 13p.

1. responsible : disreputable :: quiet : ____ (Bonus: Add an ending to another word and it becomes a 2nd correct answer!)
2. His feeling of accomplishment was ____(ed) when he found out that EVERYONE received an A on the test.
3. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This means that whoever is doing the _____(ing) is the one judging how beautiful something is.
4. She speaks French and German with equal _____.
5. My mom didn’t find my reasons for “needing” an X-Box8 very _____, and I was denied…
6. …so I tried ______(ing) at her feet, but that didn’t work either.
7. He was so hungry, he ate the food, ____ of the mold around the edges.
8. Winning the lottery is not always the _____ people think it will be.
9. (2) Along some parts of the border, they have built a giant fence to try to _____ the flow of *_____ drugs and immigrants.
10. Third period tried to ______ Mr. Coward into postponing the assignment, but Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
11. (2) Another name for detention might be “____ behavior _____(ment).”

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