New Words, Book Orders

Vocabulary Quiz Next Week Thursday



We have been learning many new vocabulary words in our Novel Study, "The Whipping Boy." Throughout this novel study, we will have several quizzes to ensure we are retaining the new words we are learning. The strategies we have learned so far for vocabulary have been to:

1. Listen for interesting words while reading.
2. Ask someone to define the word.
3. Trade a word that makes sense in its place.
4. Keep a log of new words and definitions.

Here are the words we have learned so far, some of which will appear on the quiz next Thursday September 24.

*Students are only required to know what the words mean and be able to chose correct definitions, complete sentences etc. Spelling is not being assessed on this quiz.

Shrieked- pg 1 - screamed

Fetch -pg 2 -get, bring

Defiantly - pg 2 refuse, refusal

Contrite - pg 4 understanding and sorry

Exasperation - pg 4 disappointed and frustrated

Gloat - pg 4 laugh

Obliged - pg 4 thankful

Breeches pg. 5- pants

Duds- pg.5- clothes, outfit
Ferrets-pg.5  weasel, sick furry things
Reckon- pg.5 I think, I figure
Scholar- pg.5 student
Sums- pg.6 addition, adding
Spite- pg. 6 hate, to get even

Chamber pg.7- bedroom

Manservant- pg 7 slave, servant, maid, butler
Moat- pg 7 a water filled pit (river)  around a castle.
Protested- pg 7 complaining, whining,
Gory-eyed fit- pg 7 spaz
Astonishment- pg 8 shock, surprise, stunned
Scragged- pg 8 handle roughly, beat up

Double-mounted pg- 9 two people riding on a horse

Cobbled-pg.9 street paved with small stones
Sewers pg-9 waterway under the city for disposing of waste
Halter pg 9 leather piece for horses
Insolent pg.11 rude
Cutthroat pg. 11 cruel, murderous

Here is our version of VIncent Van Gogh's wheat fields. This compliments our social studies unit on Alberta and landscape.

Book Orders were sent home today and are due Thursday September 24. 

http://www.scholastic.ca/clubs/clubsonline/