1. To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary

2. Tuesday, May 1, 2018 to go at a slow, easy pace
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything.
When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.
Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom.
to go at a slow, easy pace
to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease
evil; harmful; injurious

3. Wednesday, May 2, 2018 promising success; favorable
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first.
Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty.
He was much older than the parents of our school contemporaries, and there was nothing Jem or I could say about him when our classmates said, “My father—”
promising success; favorable
physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail
people who exist/live at the same time

4. Thursday, May 3, 2018 a right or privilege
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
She (Aunt Alexandra) was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn.
I felt Calpurnia’s hand dig into my shoulder. “What you want, Lula?” she asked, in tones I had never heard her use. She spoke quietly, contemptuously.
It had been a placid week: I had minded Aunty; Jem had outgrown the treehouse, but helped Dill and me construct a new rope ladder for it…
Thursday, May 3, 2018
a right or privilege
showing or expressing contempt (the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless)
pleasantly calm or peaceful; quiet

5. Friday, May 4, 2018 bitter, stinging, or caustic in nature or speech
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
We could tell, however, when debate became more acrimonious than professional, but this was from watching lawyers other than our father. I never heard Atticus raise his voice in my life, except to a deaf witness.
Still, everything he read he passed along to me, but with this difference: formerly, because he thought I’d like it; now, for my edification and instruction.
I wasn’t sure what Jem resented most, but I took umbrage at Mrs. Dubose’s assessment of the family’s mental hygiene.
Friday, May 4, 2018
bitter, stinging, or caustic in nature or speech
to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift
offense; annoyance; displeasure