Week 12 November 18 th, 2013 All Summer in a Day By Ray Bradbury Vocabulary
The plan…. Objectives Review – A Day’s Wait Vocabulary List Practice Evaluation –Literature Booklet pages 6, 7, 8, 9 Preview
Objectives Students will practice using context clues while developing vocabulary Students will recall and identify key vocabulary from synonyms, definitions and antonyms
Vocabulary List A 1. Blessed adj. bringing comfort or joy 2. Crushed v. pressed hard, causing something to break 3. Frail adj. weak; not strong 4. Fumbling adj. clumsy 5. Gush n. a sudden, full outpouring 6. Immense adj. extremely large 7. Muffled adj. wrapped or covered to prevent sound from being heard 8. Pleading v. begging or making sincere appeal
Vocabulary List B 1. Civilization n. the culture of a people; a way of living 2. Drenched adj. soaked with liquid; waterlogged 3. Gigantic adj. very big; huge 4. Inserted v. put something into something else 5. Photograph n. a picture taken with a camera 6. Predict v. to foretell; to say what you think will happen 7. Remembrance n. a remembering of something 8. Suspended v. stopped temporarily
Fill in the blanks with suitable words : 1. The kitten was because it had not eaten for days. 2. A of apple cider burst from the spout of the jug. 3. The vacation was a joy in every respect. 4.The player dropped the ball. 5. The falling boulders everything in their path. blessedcrushed frail gushfumbling
Fill in the blanks with suitable words : 1. The long, lazy summer day our sense of time 2. Jenna was with her parents to let her go to the movie. 3. The basket was too large to put on the table. 4. The children’s giggles could hardly be heard. 5. With his new camera, Brando took a of a lizard. pleading immense muffledsuspended photograph
Choose the correct meaning using context clues : 1. Weather forecasters predict the next day’s weather. 2. Nicky inserted the new disc into his CD player. foretell - speak - call take - put - carry 3. The drenched rags could no longer mop up the puddles. clean – dry – soaked
Match words and their meanings: Remembering of some thing The culture of people Small Huge
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Unscramble : 1. airfl 2. itcrepd 3. mulgfbin 4. dcehsru 5. gcignati
Evaluation Use the following words in a sentence – gigantic – muffled – frail Open literature booklets to pages 6, 7, 8, 9
Preview In the next Literature Lesson, we will review the vocabulary and learn about the author