1. Dear Mrs. LaRue LindaC/Callison/2011

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3. Vocabulary Word Introduction Read the word chorally Define the word: Read it chorally Example: Let the teacher give an example Ask: The teacher will ask you a question about the word. Tell your answer to your partner.

4. when you forgot or failed to do something neglected I guess I forgot to clean my room.

5. to be thankful for something someone has done for you appreciated

6. something that is not correctly known misunderstood

7. willing to do just about anything to help or change a situation desperate

8. things that are put up with endured

9. doing what you are told, when you are told to do it obedience

10. having or showing the ability to think, learn, and understand intelligent

11. something that causes people to be amazed impressive

12. to be shown how to do something demonstrated

13. the act of making something known or understood exposure

14. words put together to express ideas phrases Friends make life a little sweeter

15. High Interest Words These are words in the story you may not have seen before.

16. a member of the dog family canine

17. behaving, speaking, or acting in a way that is more dramatic than necessary melodramatic

18. somebody considered clumsy and unintelligent lummox

19. feeling sick, especially sick to the stomach queasy

20. a large room in which many people sleep, or a building with many sleeping rooms dormitory

21. the main officer in charge of a prison warden

22. neglected appreciated desperate endured misunderstood obedience intelligent impressive demonstrated exposure phrases

23. High Interest Words canine melodramatic lummox queasy dormitory warden