Unit 1

3. To write it as I wanted, however, would___all the rules of formal composition I’d learned in school, and Mr. Fleagle would surely give it a failing grade.
6. ___memories came flooding back of a night in Belleville when all of us were seated around the supper table.
8. He wore primly___eyeglasses, his wavy hair was primly cut and primly combed.
10. All the good humor of Uncle Allen’s house reawoke in my mind as I___the laughing arguments we had that night about the socially respectable method for moving spaghetti from plate to mouth.
13. Until then I’d been bored by everything___with English courses.
14. When our class was assigned to Mr. Fleagle for third-year English I___another cheerless year in that most tedious of subjects.

1. I hated the assignments to turn out long, lifeless paragraphs that were___for teachers to read and for me to write.
2. I did my best to___showing pleasure, but what I was feeling was pure delight at this demonstration that my words had the power to make people laugh.
4. Late in the year we___the informal essay.
5. This title produced an___sequence of mental images.
7. Mr. Fleagle had a reputation among students for dullness and inability to___.
9. He was said to be very formal,___and hopelessly out of date.
11. Mr. Fleagle___a homework sheet offering us a choice of topics.
12. I was preparing myself for a___to report to Mr. Fleagle immediately after school for discipline when I saw him lift my paper from his desk and knock for the class’s attention.