Daily Sparks 1 st 9 Weeks-2015 August 17- October 23.

Daily Sparks1st 9 Weeks-2015

August 17- October 23

Daily Spark -Reading Explore Practice- “Hollywood and the Pits” Prose Fiction 8/17/15

•Use the passage on your table to answer the following:•Which of the following questions is the narrator never able to answer for herself?• A. Did she still have what it took to make it in Hollywood?• B. Did she really like her job at the tar pits, or was she just waiting until she got acting work?C. What lessons can the tar pits teach a person about life?• D. What scientific clues do the tar pits provide about the world’s past?

Daily Spark -Reading Explore Practice8/18/15

•Use the passage on your table to answer the following:•Which best describes the narrators attitude toward her job at the tar pits?• A. Genuinely fascinated• B. Incredibly disgusted• C. Unbelievably frustrated• D. Completely carefree


•Use the passage on your table to answer the following:• As it is used in line 28, the word groveling most nearly means: • A. begging• B. crawling• C. despairing• D. humiliating

Daily Spark -Reading Explore Practice- “Salt”-Social Science 8/20/15

•Use the passage on your table to answer the following:• According to the passage, Romans transported salt from Ostia to Rome on the: • A. Hallstatt Road• B. Dead Sea• C. Via Salaria• D. Mediterranean Sea


•Use the passage on your table to answer the following:• All of the following are identified in the passage as methods used in salt production EXCEPT:• A. boiling.• B. burning.• C. Scraping• D. sifting


•Use the passage on your table to answer the following:• The main purpose of lines 58-61 is to: • A. explain the process of solar evaporation for salt production in modern scientific terms. • B. illustrate the knowledge early peoples had about the process of solar evaporation.• C. demonstrate that the Romans had more accurate knowledge about salt production than the Greeks.• D. highlight how the basic methods of salt production have changed little today from the past.

Daily Spark -Reading Explore Practice- “Rocket Boys”-Humaities 8/25/15

•Use the passage on your table to answer the following:• According to the passage, the author’s father first learned about Sputnik’s flight over West Virginia from the : • A. author• B. Welch Daily News• C. Bluefield Daily Telegraph• D. author’s mother


•Use the passage on your table to answer the following:•Which of the following is presented in the passage as an action the father takes that indicates his attitude toward Sputnik? • A. He raises his eybrows in disbelief.• B. He leaves the backyard without looking up at the sky.• C. He quotes from Predident Eisenhower’s remarks in he newspaper.• D. He addresses his son using the nickname Sonny.


•Use the passage on your table to answer the following:• As it is used in line 29, the word allowed most nearly means: • A. granted permission to.• B. replaced.• C. overshadowed.• D. left open.


•Use the passage on your table to answer the following:• As it is used in lines 7-8, the phrase the whole thing most likely refers to: • A. Sputnik and details about the engineers and scientists who had built and launched it.• B. a long article about Sputnik in the Welch Daily News.• C. Coalwood’s reaction to the United States’s launch of Sputnik.• D. the flight of Sputnik and the U.S. space program’s frantic response to that flight.

Daily Spark -English Explore Practice8/31/15

•Slash pines dominating the rugged terrain, rooting in potholes and rotted vegetation. •A. NO CHANGE B. dominated•C. had dominated D. dominate

Daily Spark -English Explore Practice 9/1/15

•How would you correct the following sentence:•The I shooked the rake in the water letting mud fall through the prongs.•A. NO CHANGE B. shook•C. shaken D. shaked


•How would you correct the following sentence:• Josh and Tory had scanned not only a turtle but also three big squirrels, and two deer. •A. NO CHANGE B. envisioned•C. sighted D. visualized


•How would you correct the following sentence:• Josh, meanwhile, examined a nearby pile of leaf litter, hoping to spot a Florida Reef gecko, the smallest lizard, in North America. •A. NO CHANGE•B. gecko, the smallest lizard•C. gecko the smallest lizard,•D. gecko the smallest lizard


•How would you correct the following sentence:•We’ve taken many trips to my grandparents. Each trip will seem exciting in its own way.•A. NO CHANGE B. seemingly•C. seemed D. seeming

Daily Spark 9/7/15

•NO SCHOOL-LABOR DAY


•How would you correct the following sentence:• We watched as he walked over to a fence working near an old shed and called to a man.

• A. NO CHANGE• B. working near an old shed, he walked over to a fence and called to a man.•C. working near an old shed, he called to a man and walked over to a fence•D. he walked over to a fence and called to a man working near an old shed.


•How would you correct the following sentence:•When Dad turned around and beckoned to us, we scrambled out of the car to join him.•A. NO CHANGE•B. scrambled, out of the car,•C. scrambled, out of the car•D. scrambled out of the car,


•How would you correct the following sentence:•Unless our parents decided how may jars of jam to buy, the farmer took my sister and me over to the shed where it was made.•A. NO CHANGE B. If•C. Though D. While


•How would you correct the following sentence:•Without these, occasional fires fast-growing plants would crowd out the slow-growing pines.

•A. NO CHANGE•B. these, occasional, fires•C. these occasional fires,•D. these occasional, fires


•How would you correct the following sentence:•“I bet we’ve recorded more species than any other team,” he had telled Tory.•A. NO CHANGE B. has told•C. told D. has telled


•How would you correct the following sentence:•We left early in the morning and had been driving for several hours when we came to, a pretty little valley with a small farm.

•A. NO CHANGE•B. to, a pretty, little•C. to a pretty, little, •D. to a pretty, little


•How would you correct the following sentence:•Now their hiking through Everglades National Park. •A. NO CHANGE•B. they were•C. there•D. its


•How would you correct the following sentence:•Tory peered through her field glasses looking for fernlike shrubs that have grew in the Everglades since prehistoric times. •A. NO CHANGE B. grow•C. grown D. growed


•How would you correct the following sentence:• “Write that down,” Tory said with a chuckle. “And then let’s look over there.” Her stick was being pointed at a clump of ferns.•A. NO CHANGE•B. Her stick points•C. She points her stick•D. She pointed her stick


•How would you correct the following sentence:• Up until the mid-1940s, African Americans were barred from playin Major League baseball.

•A. NO CHANGE•B. out of •C. with•D. to


•How would you correct the following sentence:•In addition, African Americans created their own league•A. NO CHANGE•B. On the other hand,•C. For instance, •D. In response,


•How would you correct the following sentence:•Players only half joked when they said, that speedy, sure-handed Oscar Charleston could play the outfield alone. •A. NO CHANGE•B. said that•C. said: that•D. said that,


•How would you correct the following sentence:•Players only half joked when they said, that speedy, sure-handed Oscar Charleston could play all three outfield positions by himself.•A. NO CHANGE•B. as himself.•C. for him.•D. as him.


• Though many baseball buffs believe that Satchel paige, whose fastball overpowered Negro Leaguers for twenty-two years, was the greatest pitcher of all time.• Assuming all the choices are true, which one provides the most relevant information at this point in the essay?• A. NO CHANGE• B. known for his nimble wit and his lively personality,•C. who became the oldest player to pitch in a Major League game,•D. born Leroy Robert Paige in Mobile, AL, in 1906,


•Some argue that Smokey joe Williams throws harder.•A. NO CHANGE•B. is throwing •C. throwed•D. threw


•By 1945 Negro League teams were wining 60 percent of its exhibition games.•A. NO CHANGE•B. there•C. their•D. it’s


•By 1945, perhaps because Negro League teams were wining 60 percent of its exhibition games. The oweners could no longer exclude them.•A. NO CHANGE•B. teams, and the owners•C. teams, the owners•D. teams. Owners


•At the time when segregation was widespread, Negro League teams and players of pride were a source for African Americans.•The best place for the underlined phrase would be: •A. where it is now•B. after the word were•C. after the word source•D. after the word Americans

Daily Spark 10/2/15

•Correct the following sentences:•yes 5 dollars were a lot of money for the boys in that story• jesse an him collected trading cards

Daily Spark 10/12/15

•Correct the following sentences:•Much students believes in volunteering in there coummunities•Some adventureers searches hopfully for beried treasure


•Correct the following sentences:•armand imply that a nikle won’t buy nothing no more• jerry and he frineds become interested in learning more about us presidence


•Correct the following sentences:•Mary my aunt dint like them there sour berrys•After he ad spent 5 days in woods both is feets was cut and brused


•Correct the following sentences:•The kaw community of oklahma have headqtrs in kaw city.•The huntig of buffallos has have been important in kaw culture


•Correct the following sentences:•are grandfatr smarter than ernie• Julia had took some money with her to that there restaurant.


•Correct the following sentences:•Weres at amnuel•Whos the bestest singer in your nieghborhood


•Correct the following sentences:•working together created a more strong bond amoung rose and her moter•buy pitchin in and workin threw the evening the family managaged to finnish the job on skedule


•Correct the following sentences:•mard coud of died from embarasment but he hided his feelings•Petra wonndered where luis had gone to


•Correct the following sentences:•at megs house the lin family eated raw cellery for the frist time•everbody at the table share food that is in large serving dish


•Correct the following sentences:•bailey always standed up for him’s sister•maya angelou admireerd her hansome funny brother

Daily Sparks 1 st 9 Weeks-2015 August 17- October 23.

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