Wednesday, 10/18/00
Warm Up + Roots Practice: Copy 1-10. Getting 4-10 all correct = exempt. All others are worth +1/2 point.
  1. re ( _ _ _ _ ) er (It's a word by itself; it's a word when you put re in front, or er at the end, or both!)
  2. autobiography : biography :: self : _________
  3. phrases : comma :: ________ : semicolon
  4. graph = _______
  5. phon = ________
  6. auto = ________
  7. tract = ________
  8. spect = ________
  9. port = _________
  10. form = ________
  11. In Ponyboy's day, they used the word reformatory for what we call Juvenile Hall. Why might that be?
  12. Think about the meaning of the root spect. Why is the name SpectraVision a somewhat silly and redundant name for a brand of TV?
  13. The word portable literally means "able to be __________."
  14. Think about the meaning of the root port. Think about the meaning of the word transport. What might the Latin prefix trans mean?
  15. Explain what the word intractable might mean and why. (The "able" ending makes it an adjective.)
  16. Explain what the word introspective might mean and why. (The "ive" ending makes it an adjective.)
Random Perfect.
Finish Outsiders questions (Ch. 9), Read Ch. 10 silently, and then answer 12-18. Done with that? Chapter 11. Answer #19 below.
19) Thinking about Bob, Pony asks, "His parents let him run wild--because they loved him too much or too little?"(p141) What do you think? What makes you think so?