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*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

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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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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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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.

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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.

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9. 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 Frank

1. 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.

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3. 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.

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5. 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.

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7. 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.

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10. 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  

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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

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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

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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