1. William’s House by Ginger Howard
Genre: Historical Fiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
Comprehension Skill: Draw Conclusions
Comprehension Strategy: Ask Questions
PowerPoint created by Michelle Harding – Fairhope Elementary

2. barrels cellar clearing fashioned halt
Words to Know
barrels
cellar
clearing
fashioned
halt
pegs
spoil
steep
succotash

3. cellar an underground room or rooms
Picture of the cellar taken at the De Locht Museum in Melderslo, Limburg, Netherlands.
You can see a lot of preserving jars to keep the food for a longer time.
On the right are stone barrels to make sauerkraut.

4. to become bad or not good to eat
spoil
to become bad or not good to eat

5. an open space of land in a forest
clearing

6. barrels
containers with round, flat tops and bottoms and sides that curve out slightly

7. stop
halt

8. having a sharp slope; almost straight up and down
steep
having a sharp slope; almost straight up and down

9. fashioned made; created
This pointed tool was fashioned from a human tibia bone.
This bear was fashioned out of a baby’s favorite blanket.

10. pins or small bolts of wood or metal used to fasten parts together
pegs

11. a mixture of cooked vegetables, particularly lima beans and corn
succotash

12. cellar halt barrels clearing steep fashioned pegs spoil succotash
bolts rods plugs
____
pegs

13. container cask cylinder
cellar halt barrels clearing steep fashioned pegs spoil succotash
container cask cylinder
_____
barrel

14. to cease stand still pause
cellar halt barrels clearing steep fashioned pegs spoil succotash
to cease stand still pause
_____
halt

15. cellar halt barrels clearing steep fashioned pegs spoil succotash
rot ruin decay
_____
spoil

16. cellar halt barrels clearing steep fashioned pegs spoil succotash
basement
_____
cellar

17. cellar halt barrels clearing steep fashioned pegs spoil succotash
field lot
_____
clearing

18. Excellent Work!