Monday, November 24, 2008

8D

What events take place in chapter 17?  What is the outcome for Tom?  Look at the last line of the chapter and explain why he would have received these two opposites from Aunt Polly?  In addition to writing your blog make sure to comment on two of your classmates.  There will be a grade for both parts.  Posts will be checked on Sat.

Monday, November 17, 2008

8E Vocab

8E-Here is your vocabulary. Please start learning the words your quiz will be next week.
Overriding
Demeanor
Ruinous
Distorted
Deprecation
Quivered
Frugal
Snipping
Envisaged
Sodden
forlorn
riffling
dissipated
ventured
subsequently
nauseating
elapse
pegs
stuttered
fringe
preemptively
swerved
mangled
kerosene
shepherding
irate
evoked
desecrated
trudged
gambling
pendulum
infest
rummaging
endured
sadistic
lanky
gleaming
perplex
tufts
rubble
gleaming
hypothermia
rhetoric