To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary Bell Ringer Read
To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues. 1. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. 2. When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. 3. Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. Tuesday, May 1, 2018 1. to go at a slow, easy pace 2. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease 3. evil; harmful; injurious
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. Wednesday, May 2, 2018 In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues. 1. The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. 2. Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. 1. promising success; 3. He was much older than the favorable parents of our school contemporaries, and there 2. physically weak, as from was nothing Jem or I could say age or sickness; frail about him when our 3. people who exist/live at classmates said, “My father—” the same time
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues. 1. She (Aunt Alexandra) was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn. 2. 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. 3. 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 1. a right or privilege 2. showing or expressing contempt (the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless) 3. pleasantly calm or peaceful; quiet
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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 1. bitter, stinging, or caustic in nature or speech 2. to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift 3. offense; annoyance; displeasure
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