monday morning blog 4-19

Voc words: legistate, legal ,policy
voc words must be used in your summary!!
Grab a newspaper.
silent reading until 8:30
Then type up a summary of your favorite article.
You must use your voc words in your summary.type them in caps!!
title:
8 sentence summary
3 reflection. i think, i feel, i agree
1 interesting fact

ch 10 questions

Chapter 10 questions. ANSWER in COmplete sentences!

1. How was David in school? Why was he not focused?
2. Where did David spend most of his time?
3. Why did David think his father was in some kind of trouble?
4. Who was Mr.. Tapley?
5. How is his relationship with his father?
6. What do you think about hid dad? How does David feel about his dad?
7. Describe his meeting with his father, what was I like? What did they talk about?
8. Can you relate to David and his father’s relationship
9. Why does dad say “ get out of here.”?
10. What job did he get during summer of 1978? How was that?
11. Who did he go to for advice?
12. Where did David ride to get away?
13. What did David do after he finished high school?
14. Do you think that was a good choice to go? Why?
15. Who did he hear from? How was their conversations?
16. Do you think his mother was just toying with his emotions?
17. Who has taken the place of David's mom? How does she treat him? Examples.
18. Do you think David will ever go back to Alice and Harold? Why?
19. Go through the book. List EVERY home / place David has moved or stayed at.

chapter 10 words

1.

copy word, definition, and make a sentence with each word.

1. Prod
2. 2.Resented
3. 3.Strutting
4. 4.Swerved
5. 5.Deliberately
6. 6.Gleaming
7. 7.Shuddered
8. 8.Wheezed
9. 9.Clenched
10. 10.Bait
11. 11.Splurge
12. 12.Advantage
13. 13.Withered
14. 14.Aptitude
15. 15.frenzied

ch 9 voc words

Ch 9 Voc words

define- sentences and picture

1. Conning
2. Gawked
3. Weathered
4. Precisely
5. Prodding
6. Initiating
7. Converse
8. Steer
9. Immaculate
10. Bicker
11. intrigued
12. Livid
13. Scrutinized
14. Persisted
15. Reverberating
16. Persistence
17. Composure
18. bouquet

ch 9 questions coming around

1. 1.Why does David feel like he has dark cloud over him?
2. 2.What does David pray for every night? Why?
3. 3.Does Alice want him to stay with her? What is the trouble?
4. 4.Describe David's and Harold’s relationship.
5. 5.What is David's child fantasy?
6. 6.Who is Dr. Robertson? Tell me how he treats David?
7. 7.Do you think going to see Doc will help him? Why or why not? Can you relate?
8. 8.Is there anything in this chapter that is similar to your life? How?
9. 9.Why do you think David’s speech problem disappeared?
10. 10.What kind of mom is Alice to David? Tell me a few things she does for him.
11. 11.David is changing, describe how he is changing. What is the most important gift he has received.
12. 12.What do you think David fears, why?
13. 13.What was so different about him and the other students
14. 14.What did David want to learn so badly? Why?
15. 15.What happened to cause David back at juvenile hall?
16. 16.Who are David's new family? Describe the new neighborhood the family moved to.
17. 17.Who are David's new friends?
18. 18.What do you think of the lady that jabbed her finger at David? What did she say to him?
19. 19.Who are the Marshes?
20. 20.What was stay like at Walshes. What did he do to protect the youngest kids?

Flicker- to burn unsteadily
Thefire flickered in the wind at the beach.

stench- an offensive smell or odor

Ch 8 voc words

Example: Estranged- To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate.

Disagreements led to quarrels that finally estranged the two love birds.

1. 1.Fiddling
2. 2.Seized
3. 3.Rapped
4. 4.Surged
5. 5.Squabble
6. 6.Shrieked
7. 7.Scoured
8. 8.Cooed
9. 9.Measly
10. 10.Animated
11. 11.Evaporated
12. 12.Radically
13. 13.Flicker
14. 14.Stench
15. 15.Radius
16. 16.Hoisted
17. 17.Reluctantly
18. 18.Adjoining
19. 19.Puny
20. 20.Curdling
21. 21.Putrid
22. 22.Flailing