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COMPOUND SENTENCES*Contains two complete ideas called clauses*The clauses must be related.*Clauses are connected by a conjunction*A conjunction is a “joiner.”*Conjunctions: remember “FANBOYS” for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so*Semicolon functions as a conjunction
1. Abe Lincoln gave a stump speech, and he stood on a real stump. (C)
2. I washed the rug with detergent, but the red stain would not come out. (C)
3. The book is about ancient Egypt. (S)
4. Geronimo was born in No-doyohn Canyon, Mexico. (S)
5. Iris and Phil took a train to Chicago. (S)
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6.C 7. C 8. C 9. C 10. C
11. S 12. S 13. S
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1. E 2. N 3. G 4. O
5. C 6. A 7. K8. M
9. F 10. B 11. D 12. H
13. J
ALL BUT MY LIFE PAGE 663
GREEN LITERATURE BOOK1. The German mayor of the town accompanied the
American soldiers.2. Gerta has no feelings. She says that looking back
she was an “emotionless vacuum.”3. She took the pictures that she kept in the boots out,
but she allowed the poison to be burned with the boots.
4. The powerful memories of her family; father reading the paper and smoking a pipe, her mother needlepointing, she and her brother doing homework, soft lamps glowing
5. Gerta married the officer that liberated her.
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red LITERATURE BOOK 1. Greg is failing math.
2. He wants to play basketball with the Scorpions
3. He goes down the street to an abandoned tenement building.
4. He meets Lemon Brown. Greg hears Lemon’s story, helps fight off thugs that want to steal Lemon’s treasure, and learns from Lemon about true “treasures.”
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red LITERATURE BOOK 5. Lemon’s “treasure” is an old harmonica along with newspaper clippings of his success as a blues singer.
6. He keeps it wrapped in the rags around his legs. Lemon’s treasure teaches Greg a lesson about the love between a father and a son. It reveals to him the desire of a father to inspire his son to do well.
7. “…I got a razor here sharp enough to cut a week into nine days!”
The outsiders
1. Ponyboy gets jumped by some of the Socs.
2. Gang members: Darry, Sodapop, Steve, Two-Bit, Dally, and Johnny
3. The narrator is Ponyboy.
4. S. E. Hinton was 16 years old when she wrote The Outsiders.
The outsiders 5. Ponyboy ran away from home because Darry slapped him in an argument.6. Ponyboy and Johnny rescued small children
from a burning church building.7. Ponyboy tried to cope with Johnny’s death by
denying that it happened or was real.8. Randy was sick of the fighting, and he was
tired of it not doing any good. He said that it didn’t matter who won, that that nothing would change.
The outsiders9. Johnny wanted Ponyboy to stay sensitive,
caring, kind, and innocent.
10.Dally “broke” after Johnny’s death. (pg. 52) He robbed a grocery store, ran to the vacant lot, pulled the EMPTY gun on the police, and was shot down. He died young, desperate, and violently.
The Diary of Anne Frank1. The setting of the play is Amersterdam in
the Netherlands during WWII.
2. The Frank’s went into hiding because the Nazi’s were persecuting the Jews. They were exiling them to concentration camps for labor and extermination.
The Diary of Anne Frank3. The Franks and the Van Daans wore multiple layers of clothing because they could not carry suitcases or they would look suspicious to the Nazi’s.
4. The Franks and the Van Daans were hiding in the annex for 25 months or about two years.
The Diary of Anne Frank5. There were eight people hiding in the annex, the Franks (4) The VanDanns (3) and Mr. Kraler.
6. Anne Frank never lost faith in the goodness of people.
The Diary of Anne Frank7. Peter called Anne “Miss Quack, Quack”
8. The yellow star of David
9. The Franks and the VanDaans think one of their warehouse workers is blackmailing them.
The Diary of Anne Frank10. Their rations were cut because the suppliers of the ration book were arrested.
11. The sound of the burglar downstairs ruins the Hanukkah celebration.
12. Mrs. Frank wants the VanDaans to leave because Mr. VanDaan was stealing food.
Vocabulary from Anne
Frank and The Outsiders1. Acquitted- to relieve from charge or fault of
a crime; not guilty
2. Apprehension- nervousness
3. Conspicuous- easily seen or noticed
4. Contemptuous- despised; hated; scorned; distained
5. Defiance- a challenge; the act of going against authority
Vocabulary from Anne
Frank and The Outsiders6. Detached- not attached; separated;
disinterested
7. Disgruntled- unhappy
8. Doggedly- persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious
9. Elite- superior or powerful group; nobility
10. Flinching- to drawback or shrink
Vocabulary from Anne
Frank and The Outsiders11. Gingerly- carefully or cautious
12. Hue- color, tint or shade
13. Incredulous- disbelief; skeptical
14. Indignantly- angrily
15. Intuition-an ability to know things without having to reason them out.
Vocabulary from Anne
Frank and The Outsiders16. Loathe- hate
17. Nonchalantly- in a casual unenthusiastic manner
18.Premonition- a feeling something bad will happen
19. Resignedly- submissive
20. S0phisticated- experienced in world ways
Vocabulary from Anne
Frank and The Outsiders21. Stricken- hit, wound or strike
22. Subside- to sink low or to a lower level
23. Unabashed- obvious; bold
24. Unfathomable- unbelievable
25. Vast- of great area or extent
1. "There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.“ Otto Frank
2. "We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We are destroying ourselves.“ Otto Frank 3. "He's no father to you.. That man! He doesn't know what it is to be a father.“ Mrs. Frank 4. "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.“ Anne Frank 5. "In my day it was the boys who called on the girls. Not the girls on the boys:” Mrs. VanDaan
Who Said It: Anne Frank
6. "Aren't they awful? Aren't they impossible? Treating us as if we were still in the nursery." Anne Frank 7. "There is so little that we parents can do to help our children. We can only try to set a good example. You must build your own character.“ Otto Frank 8. "You can't throw. . .? Something they branded you with? That they made you wear so they could spit on you?” Peter
Who Said It: Anne Frank
Who Said It: Outsiders 1. “Our one rule, besides stick together, is don’t get caught…Either way there’s not going to be any blood feud between our outfit and Shepard’s. If we needed them tomorrow, they’d show.” Pony 2. “…. Johnny, don’t die, please don’t die…” Dallas 3. “He kept trying to make someone say ‘No’ and they never did. They never did. That is what he wanted. For somebody to tell him ‘No’.” Randy 4. “I didn’t think! I forgot! That’s all I hear out of you! Can’t you think of anything?” Darry
5. “I think I like it better when the old man’s hittin’ me. At least then I know he knows who I am.” Johnny
6. “We have troubles you have never even heard of….Things are rough all over.” Cherry
7. "You know what a greaser is? White trash with long hair.“ Bob 8. “It ain’t fair! It ain’t fair that we have all the rough breaks!” Pony Boy 9. “Don’t let him bug you. He’s really proud of you ‘cause you’re so brainy. It’s just because you’re the baby.--I mean he loves you a lot. Savvy?” Soda Pop
Who Said It: Outsiders
aster & astro
star
astronomy, asterisk
Root Words
aud
to hear
audience, audible
Root Words
cir & circum
around
circumference, circle
Root Words
cred
to believe, trust
credibility, incredibility
Root Words
dic, dict
to say, to speak
diction, dictionary
Root Words
dur
hard, lasting
duration, endure
Root Words
graph & gram
to write, draw
autograph, paragraph
Root Words
jur, jus, judic
law, right, judgment
justify, judicial
Root Words
logue, logo
idea, word, speech, reason
dialogue, logical
Root Words
micro
small
microscope
Root Words
mono
one
monologue
Root Words
mov, mob, mot
to move
mobile, remove
Root Words
noc, nox
night
equinox, nocturnal
Root Words
port
to carry
import, export
Root Words
pyr
fire
pyromania
Root Words
ment
action or process
development
Suffixes
ment
State or quality of being
amusement
Suffixes
ment
product or thing
instrument
Suffixes
spec, spect, spic
to see, look at
inspect, respect
Root Words
syn, sym
together
symphony, synthesize
Root Words
tract
to pull, draw
attract, traction
Root Words
volve
roll
involve, revolution
Root Words
y
characterized by
thrifty, frequency
Suffixes