For TMS students who are on vacation, but are always in touch with English.

How about a few riddles for fun? (answers at the end )

1. What's the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?

2. Why isn't your nose twelve inches long?

3. What goes 99-clump,99-clump,99-clump?

4. Where did Noah keep his bees?

5. Which is faster-hot or cold?

6. What did the boy when the Statue of Liberty sneezed?

7. What does the sneezing champion of the Olympics win?

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/One sells watches, while the other one watches cells./ Because then it would be a foot./

/A centipede with a wooden leg./In the Ark hives./ Hot's faster. You can catch cold./

/God Bless, America!/A Cold Medal/

How about some crazy crosses to continue? (answers at the end.)

1. What do you get if you cross a termite with a house?

2. What do you get if you cross a foot and a rocket?

3. What do you get if you cross Michael Wilson and a pool table?

4. What do you get if you cross a skeleton with a great detective?

5. What do you get if you cross two insects and a rabbit?

6. What do you get if you cross a ham and a karate expert?

7. What do you get if you cross a mosquito and an elephant?

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/An exterminator/ Mistletoe / A billiard bald/ Sherlock Bones / Bugs Bunny /

/ Pork chops / I don't know, but if it bites you, you're in real trouble./

And in the third place, how about some dizzy daffinitions? (instant answers if you guess right.)

1. Illegal : a sick bird.

2. Trojan Horse : A phony pony.

3. Willpower : Eating only one peanut.

4. Bread : Raw toast.

5. Cartoon: A song sung in an automobile.

6. Denial: A river in Egypt.

7. Paradox: Two medical doctors.

OK, folks, see you on the 28th! Enjoy your vacation and don't forget to smile!!

Sam the Ham

TMS 9th graders still trapped in Act II of "An Inspector Calls"

Check out these content questions and see if you can answer them.

2nd QUIZ ON “AN INSPECTOR CALLS” (9TH)
I. Answer the following questions as completely as possible? (2 points each)
1. Why do Gerald and Sheila react “bitterly” to each other?
2. Who was Daisy Renton and how did she meet Gerald?
3. What did Sheila hand in Gerald after she talked to the Inspector?
4. Who did Mrs. Birling recognize in the photograph shown to her by the Inspector?
5. How did Mrs. Birling meet Daisy Renton?
6. Why was Mrs. Birling prejudiced against the case of Daisy Renton?
7. Why are Mr. And Mrs. Birling frightened at the end of Act II?

II. Answer the following questions briefly. (1 point each)
Who got Eva Smith sacked from Milwards? __________________
Who, according to the inspector, are more impressionable? _________________
Who has more reason to take offence in the inquiry? ______________________
Who is used to drinking a lot for the last couple of years? __________________

Who met Daisy at the Palace in Brumley? _____________________________ (answers tomorrow)

Vocabulary: /disturbing/sacked/vindictive/morbid/trifle/pretences/

/lad/haunt/carcass/womanizer/sot/rogue/concoction/

/hard up/slip/mistress/ That was all folks! See you tomorrow!

Sam the Ham