Week 12November 18th, 2013

All Summer in a Day

By Ray Bradbury

Vocabulary

The plan.…• Objectives• Review

– A Day’s Wait• Vocabulary List• Practice• Evaluation

– Literature Booklet pages 6, 7, 8, 9• Preview

Objectives• Students will practice using context

clues while developing vocabulary

• Students will recall and identify key vocabulary from synonyms, definitions and antonyms

Vocabulary List A1. Blessed adj. bringing comfort or joy2. Crushed v. pressed hard, causing

something to break3. Frail adj. weak; not strong4. Fumbling adj. clumsy5. Gush n. a sudden, full outpouring6. Immense adj. extremely large7. Muffled adj. wrapped or covered to

prevent sound from being heard8. Pleading v. begging or making sincere

appeal

Vocabulary List B1. Civilization n. the culture of a people; a way of

living2. Drenched adj. soaked with liquid; waterlogged3. Gigantic adj. very big; huge4. Inserted v. put something into something else5. Photograph n. a picture taken with a camera6. Predict v. to foretell; to say what you think will

happen7. Remembrance n. a remembering of something8. Suspended v. stopped temporarily

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 .

blessed crushed frail gushfumbling

Fill in the blanks with suitable words: 1 .The long, lazy summer day ---------------- our

sense of time2 .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 muffled suspended photograph

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

Match words and their meanings :

1 .The ancient Egyptian civilization had centralized government and strong trade .

2 .The child’s gigantic stuffed bear took up most of the bed .

3 .The remembrance of fragrant roses made the winter day feel like summer .

Remembering of something

The culture of people

Small

Huge

Pleading Fumbling

suspended

Frail

immense

drenched

d e h c n e r d i

r n z r d n m m n

e e m o c u m v s

l i a r f e d h e

i a a f n i e s r

o r l s l a k u t

u e e e c a n g e

d d e s s e l b d

d e d n e p s u s

Unscramble : •1 .airfl

•2 .itcrepd

•3 .mulgfbin

•4 .dcehsru

•5 .gcignati

Evaluation• Use the following words in a

sentence

–gigantic–muffled– frail

• Open literature booklets to pages 6, 7, 8, 9

Preview• In the next Literature Lesson, we

will review the vocabulary and learn about the author