Daily Spark 8-6-12

3 Goals you have for yourself

2 Ways to achieve those goals

1 Career you would like to pursue

Daily Spark 8-7-12 Write only what is underlined in this prompt

Role models (someone you look up to) are

important in most everyone’s life. Whom

do you view as a role model? Why?

Daily Spark 8-8-12

-in & -ex are two prefixes that you often

see in reading and writing. For example,

internal and external conflict. Think about

your favorite story. Write about the

conflicts the character faced. Were they

internal or external and how do you know?

Daily Spark

Most people have vivid

memories of certain events from

childhood. What sticks in your

mind? Pick one particularly

strong memory and describe it

in detail.

8/9/12

Write what is underlined!!!

8-10-2012

You’ve just completed one

full week of 7th grade. What

do you think? What are you

expecting for the remainder

of the year? What are you

hoping for?

Write what is underlined!!!

8-13-2012

What was your favorite television show

when you were a little kid? What is your

favorite show now? Explain why you think

your choices in television shows may have

changed so much.

Daily Spark 8-14-12

WRITE WHAT IS UNDERLINED!!

To prejudge is “to judge without knowing

all of the facts”. Think about a time when

you prejudged someone, or when you

were prejudged. Write about your feelings

and what you would do differently if you

could go back and re-live it.

Daily Spark 8-15-12

WRITE WHAT IS UNDERLINED!!

A utopia is “any place or state of ideal

perfection”. Meaning, a perfect place.

What is your idea of utopia? (What’s your

perfect place?) Write about your utopia

and draw a picture of it.

Daily Spark 8/16/12

Choice: You may write about any topic

that you wish.

WRITE WHAT IS UNDERLINED!!!

A paleontologist studies fossils. An

archaeologist studies people and what

they left in the near and distant past.

Which of these professions would be more

interesting to you? Why?

Daily Spark 8-17-12

What is your opinion about the possibility

of life on other planets? Do you need to

see it to believe it? Do you think there

must be aliens in a universe as large as

ours. Write your theories beginning with

the sentence:

“I believe (don’t believe) there is life on other

planets because…..

Daily Spark 8-20-12

WRITE WHAT IS UNDERLINED!!

Some people play sports and love it.

Others play and hate it. Some follow local

or professional sports teams very closely.

Do you fit into these categories? If so

which one and why? If not explain why.

Daily Spark 8-21-12

What is your favorite movie? Why is this

your favorite? If you could be in the

movie, what character would you be and

why?

Daily Spark 8-22-12

WRITE WHAT IS UNDERLINED!!

Do you have a best friend? Do you travel

in groups, or are you more of a loner?

Write about what type of friend you are.

OR

Write about your perfect day?

Daily Spark 8-23-12

Songs can evoke memories. Write about

a song that really sticks out. What

memories does it hold?

Daily Spark 8-24-12

Daily Spark 8/27/12

Do you plan on attending the Watermelon

Festival this weekend? Why/Why not?

OR

Describe the Neolithic and Paleolithic time

periods.

Daily Spark 8/28/12

If you won the lottery who, other than

yourself, would you help with the money?

Why choose them?

OR

Choice

WRITE WHAT’S UNDERLINED!!

What would it be like to own your own business? What type of business would you start? How would you decide who worked for you? What would your work policies be? Write about what type of business you would have. Include all of the above.

Daily Spark 8/29/12

WRITE WHAT’S UNDERLINED!!

Who in your class do you think will go into politics when they get older? Why did you pick them?

Daily Spark 8/30/12

Are you excited for the long weekend?

Why?

Daily Spark 8/31/12

Daily Spark 9/4/12

How will writing in a variety of forms this

year help you when you become an adult?

Daily Spark 9/5/12 Philosophy and Baseball

In the fall of 1967, the Boston Red Sox were

playing in the World Series. I was a freshman at a

university that was located in the Midwest at the

time, enrolled in a philosophy course that met at

two in the afternoon. The course was taught by a

native Bostonian.

How should the underlined word in the

passage be corrected?

A. NO CHANGE

B. MidWest

C. midwest

D. midWest

Daily Spark 9/6/12

…the volume turned down so that only he could hear.

{2} Baseball is unique among American sports by its ability to appeal

to a love resembling that of a child of fable and

legend. Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio,

Roberto Clemente—names like these will echo through time that are

trumpet calls to storied battles fought and won in ages past.

Which of the following sentences, if inserted at box #2, would provide

the most effective transition to the second paragraph?

A. Accounting for this kind of behavior is easy.

B. Most of the students in the class were not fond of this instructor.

C. Today, most World Series games are played in the evening.

D. He did a remarkable job, considering how distracted he must have

been.

Daily Spark 9/7/12 When Hank Aaron stretched out a sinewy arm to

pull one down, striding up to a rack of ash-hewn

bats, he became a modern-day knight selecting

their lance. And when glints of the afternoon sun

shone off Mickey

Mantle's colossal bat, there will have to be seen for

one brief, stirring moment the glimmer of the jewels

in King Arthur's own mighty sword, Excalibur.

What literary term is used in this passage?

A. alliteration

B. onomatopoeia

C. allusion

D. similie

Daily Spark 9/10/12

So there he stood that learned professor of mine,

lecturing about the ideas, that have engaged

people's minds for centuries. Then he'd interrupt

himself to announce, with smiling eyes, that the

Sox had taken a two-to-nothing lead.

How should the underlined portion be

written?

A. No Change

B. stood that learned professor of mine,

C. stood that learned professor of mine

D. stood, that learned professor of mine,

Daily Spark 9/11/12

Today marks the 11th anniversary of the 9-

11 tragedies. What do you know about

what happened that day? How do you

feel about what happened to us as

country that day?

Daily Spark 9/12/12 Here was a man who's mind was disciplined inside

his schoolbook to contemplate the collected

wisdom of the ages—and he was behaving like a

boy with a contraband

comic opened. On those warm October days, as

the afternoon sun dances and plays on the domes

and spires of the university, the philosophers had

to stand aside, for the professor's imagination had

transported him to the Boston of his youth.

Which of the following would be the best word to

replace the underlined word?

A. lawful B. Lawful

C. forbidden D. hot

Daily Spark 9/12/12

How do you define hero? Do you think

fame is an important part of heroism or are

most heroes unknown? Who is your hero

and why? Write about your ideas of a

hero.

Daily Spark 9/13/12

Community courts and community justice pre-vailed in

England at the time of the Norman Conquest [1066]. The

legal system was ritualistic, dependent upon oaths at most

stages of litigation, and permeated by both religious and

superstitious notions. The proeedings were oral very

personal and highly confrontative. Juries were unknown.

One party publicly "appealed," or accused, the other before

the community meeting at which the presence of both was

obligatory.

How should the bolded portion of the above passage be

punctuated?

A. No change

B. oral, very personal and highly

C. oral, very personal, and highly

D. oral very personal, and highly

Daily Spark 9/14/12

To be absent meant risking fines and

outlawry. After the preliminary statements of

the parties, the court rendered judgment, not

on the merits of the issue nor the question of

guilt or innocence, but on the manner by

which it should be resolved.

What is a synonym for the underlined word?

A. idle

B. quit

C. stop

D. determine

Daily Spark 9/17/12

Today is Constitution Day. Our 1st

Amendment is Freedom of Speech. How

do you think this amendment has shaped

the news media for this country? Explain.

Daily Spark 9/18/12

Judgment in other words preceded trial because it was a

decision on what form the trial should take. It might be by

compurgation, by ordeal, or, after the Norman Conquest, by

battle. Excepting trial by battle, only one party was tried or,

more accurately, was put to his "proof." Proof being regarded

as an advantage, it was usually awarded to the accused party;

in effect he had the privilege of proving

his own case.

How should the underlined portion in the above passage be

changed?

A. No Change

B. Judgment, in other words preceded

C. Judgment, in other, words preceded

D. Judgment, in other words, preceded

Daily Spark 9/19/12

Ordeals were usually reserved for more serious crimes, for

persons of bad reputation, for peasants, or for those caught

with stolen goods. As an invocation of immediate divine

judgment, ordeals were consecrated by the Church and

shrouded with solemn religious mystery. The accused

underwent a physical trial in which

he called upon God to witness his innocence by putting a

miraculous sign upon his body. Cold water, boiling water,

and hot iron were the principal ordeals, all of which the

clergy administered.

Which of the following would be an antonym for the

bolded word in the above passage?

A. light C. resolute

B. intent D. sincere

Daily Spark 9/20/12

In the ordeal of cold water, the accused was

trussed up and cast into a pool to see whether he

would sink or float. On the theory that water which

had been sanctified by a priest would receive an

innocent person but reject the guilty, innocence

was proved by sinking—and hopefully a quick

retrieval—guilt by floating.

How should the underlined portion of the above

sentence be changed?

A. No Change

B. sink-

C. sinking, and

D. sank

Daily Spark 9/21/12

In the other ordeals, one had to plunge his hand

into a cauldron of boiling water or carry a red hot

piece of iron for a certain distance, in the hope that

three days later, (1)when the bandages were

removed, the priest would find a "clean" wound,

one that was healing free of infection. (2)How

deeply one plunged his arm into the water, how

heavy the iron or great the distance it was carried,

depended mainly on the gravity of the charge. (3)

If the author wanted to add the sentence, “Although

infection was a leading cause of death during this

time period.”, where would it best be placed?

A. Before sentence 1. C. After sentence 2.

B. After sentence 1. D. After sentence 3.

Name 3 things you feel people use

everyday in their homes that endangers

the environment. Explain how these are

harmful.

Daily Spark 9-24-12

If you were asked to close your eyes and

see yourself 10 years from now, what do

you think you’d see? Where will you be

working? Will you be married? What will

your life be like? Write about what you

see.

Daily Spark 9-25-12

Think of someone who ISN’T famous that

has somehow inspired you. Explain how

they have inspired you.

Daily Spark 9-26-12

Have you ever thought about what you’d

most like to do when you finish high

school? What can you do now to prepare

for it? Explain your thoughts.

Daily Spark 9-27-12

If you could change 1 thing about your life

in order to make it better, what would it

be?

Daily Spark 9-28-12