1. Week 12 November 18 th, 2013 All Summer in a Day By Ray Bradbury Vocabulary

2. The plan…. Objectives Review – A Day’s Wait Vocabulary List Practice Evaluation –Literature Booklet pages 6, 7, 8, 9 Preview

3. Objectives Students will practice using context clues while developing vocabulary Students will recall and identify key vocabulary from synonyms, definitions and antonyms

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Match words and their meanings: Remembering of some thing The culture of people Small Huge

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13. Evaluation Use the following words in a sentence – gigantic – muffled – frail Open literature booklets to pages 6, 7, 8, 9

14. Preview In the next Literature Lesson, we will review the vocabulary and learn about the author