Do Now: How would you react if part of your requirements for graduation was to spend part of your summer working on a farm, naming the animals that would turn up on your dinner plate or along side your eggs for breakfast?
Reading: Chapters 2, 3, and WELCOME TO CROAK! CHAPTER 4 (Everybody gets to read a page or two!) Yay!
1. What surprises you more: Uncle Mort or Lex's reaction to Uncle Mort? (Chapter 3)
2. Why is Lex's description of Steve contain traces of Lex's humor, her bullishness, and sprinkles of foreshadowing? (Chapter 2)
3. Edgar Allan Poe was a famous writer of horror and mystery stories- have you read any? Would you like to read a short one? The Tell-tale Heart?
4. Put yourself in Lex's shoes after she got off the bus and sees Uncle Mort. What would you think and how would you feel?
5. Lex as the reputation for being "unmanageable" do you think Uncle Mort has what it takes to manage her? (Chapter 3)
Vocabulary
Adopt a word - Pick one from the list or choose one from our reading.
Cryptic - Principal Truitt's cryptic smile
atop - principal's head atop a giant wooden spear
comb-over
bicuspid
plethora
decimate decimating (the only thing that will keep you from decimating the school population)
meteorological phenomenon (phenomena - is the plural)
Adirondacks Google Earth view
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