A. VOCABULARY: GROWL: a low sound made in anger. Low guttural, menacing sound, as of a dog. FRET: to get angry QUARRY: a large hole in the house CLUNG: to hold something tight KETTLE: a large metal pot for boiling TROUBLESOME: get some trouble, worry, tired TWISTED: to turn. To bend around each other PEDDLING: to sell small items from door to door or o the street SPRAWL: also sprawl out to lie or sit with your arms or legs stretched out. SADDLED: a salt made of leather that is put on a horse’s back B. STUDY GUIDE CHAPTER I 1. How did the boy get the dog Sounder? Sounder came to him, him didn’t have the dog. 2. Why did the boy give up going to school? Because the way is too long and too cold. 3. Why was the …show more content…
They could come to the jail. 4. What was the boy going to do with Sounder’s ear that he put under his pillow? The boy would bury sounder’s ear with him. 5. Why was the boy frightened when he passed houses with curtains? He was scared with the people inside the house 6. What is the answer to the riddle, “if you’re inside, you look out, and you’re outside looking in, who looks both ways? That is the window 7. Why was the boy glad it was winter when he crawled under the cabin for Sounder? The boy wanted to find out Sounder 8. What is the lesson the boy’s mother says that he must learn? T CHAPTER IV 1. Why had the boy’s mother brought home a bottle of vanilla? Because she wanted to make a cake in the Christmas Day 2. What did the boy’s mother want him to do with the cardboard box? She wanted the boy bring the cake give his father in the jail. 3. How did the boy know the time of the year when he walked to town? He saw a Christmas tree in the store 4. Why did the jailer say he had t break the contents of the box in to four pieces? He want to 5. How did he boy imagine what would happen to the red-faced jailer? The boy hoped the jailer died is the bolt animal. 6. Why did the boy practice over and over again what he was going to say to his father in jail? The boy doesn’t want his father sad. 7. Even though the boy practiced, what did he say to his father through the jail bars? Sounder might not be dead. 8. What
“The Boy in the Box” has been a mystery for many years due to the extremely limited amount of information investigators know about the boy. On February 25th, 1957, Frederick Benosis, a college student, reported that he found a nude body of a little boy between 4 and 6 inside
Right before the school year started Tripp’s mom took away his guitar. It was taken because he wouldn’t listen or do any of his summer reading. She wanted Tripp to good grades or wait till next summer to receive his guitar back. When the school year started Tripp borrowed the school’s guitar, although he was not suppose to. Tripp sign up for one of the two practice rooms. He got the room A on odd days during lunch time. There is this other student named Lyla
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4. What do Piggy and Ralph spot in the sand, and what do they do with it?
11. What effect does this advice have on the author when Mommy is not at the bus stop one day?
B.When four-year-old Jack plays school with his older sisters, he fills a sheet of paper with lines of random letters.
His father had been in jail then went AWOL from the Army. His father had beaten him severely. He was taken back to family court after an incident with a cousin and stealing from an old woman. “Both sets of grandparents work during the day, and, apart from not being able to physically look after the defendant, they also felt they could not control him.” (3) Eventually, he was sent back to his mother in New York City. She is the one who gave him a quarter and told him to “never darken this door again”. (4)
2. A new child enters the center and speaks no English. He is crying after his mom just left. How do you
Q. So, Mr.Finley, how would you describe the situation Mr.Snuffles was in when you found him.
1. He begins to dislike his father’s naïve provincialism. He felt stupid to not understand why.
Jiminy heard a sound, one of which he was unfamiliar with. It took a minute for his brain to process what exactly was it, he had heard, it was a gunshot. Why, why was there a gunshot here of all places? He stood from his chair and glanced around the room, looking for any sign of Dawn, but to no avail, the blonde he had grown fond of was nowhere to be found. When Judge Frollo called for a recess that’s when Jiminy took the chance to leave the room in search of Dawn. He walked out of the room door, it didn’t take him long to find people gathering around something. He had no idea what it was but something in the pit of his stomach told him that it was not good. He squeezed himself past a few of the people and the site that befell his eyes was
Every time I tried to reach out and open the lid I’d freeze up, worries and doubts filling my head with what ifs and scenarios filled with uncertainty. This went on for five minutes. Do I really want to know what the box contains? On one side I’d be able to find out what has mum so upset, and maybe I would be able to cheer her up. But on the other side is that, maybe the box will contain certain things that will possibly hurt or burden me. However, I was always weak to the temptation of curiosity. With a deep breath I grabbed the lid of the box and slowly lifted it up.
After a few hours of dusting and sweeping and vacuuming, up all of Tyler's crumbs he left along the floor, Julius stumbled upon a small, red, velvet box tied with a red, satin, bow. After studying the box for a while he decided to ask the the other children if they knew what it was. None of the children knew what the box was so they decided to open it up.
Another challenge that Clay boy was faced with was when he went to cut down the Christmas tree and had an encounter with an albino buck. It started when he saw a doe and he was watching her frolic when she fell into a hole, consequently, when Clay boy tried to help the doe an albino buck appeared and tried to attack him. The buck reared up on his back legs and when he came back down he charged at Clay boy. Just in the nick of time Clay boy hid under the Christmas tree
1. I could not find my cup after Brat left the room. He must have stolen it.