1. “Charles” Take out two sheets of paper. By Shirley Jackson

2. Infer, surmise, conclude

4. Take out two sheets of paper. Copy vocabulary words. Make a guess as to the meaning Renounced Swaggering Insolently Simultaneously Elaborately Incredulously Haggard fresh

5. re - again reassure rebate rebel react reassert rebirth receive recall recommence recollect reconsider recovery recoup redirect redress recur refrain regain reheat reissue rehash rematch remarry replicate repay reorder reschedule restart reschedule retake return review reverse rebound rewire rework resurface

6. renounced

7. What does renounce mean? I renounced meat and began a vegan diet.

8. Latin and Greek roots Re: again Nounce: messenger Renounce: gave up Announce, pronounce, denounce

9. swaggering

10. What does swaggering mean? He was a swaggering character who entered the room with an attitude.

11. insolently

12. Example: The rat insolently asked me if I was alive when time began.

13. Simultaneously:

14. elaborately

15. Elaborately- overdoing, dramatically, Painstakingly I dressed quickly before walking my dog, but before the prom, I dressed elaborately, taking hours to get ready.

16. incredulously

17. Cred means believe I asked incredulously, “Did you really win the lottery?” Incorrect-in= not Not believable

18. Haggard (adj)

19. haggard After teaching my wild class, I felt haggard and worn out, but after the day at the spa, I felt renewed.

20. fresh

21. Grandma warned me, “Don’t be fresh with me young lady.”

22. foreshadowing

23. Point of View Point of view: the perspective from which a story is told. 1st person: the narrator participates in the action and can only tell what he or she knows. 3rd person: the narrator is not a character in the story but the events from the “outside.”

24. Point of view/foreshadowing I watched him go off the first morning with older girl next door, seeing clearly that an era of my life was ended, my sweet- voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a long trousered, swaggering character who forgot to stop at the corner and wave goodbye to me