Friday September 10, 2010

Remember: Your summer reading assessment is Monday in class.

Today we'll make sure you have your graphic organizers filled in and ready to go. You should be thinking about the challenges the characters have had.

Homework: vocabulary sheet. This is due Monday. If you loose your hard copy, or are absent, there is a copy below.

Lamb to the Slaughter
Roald Dahl

Directions: Try to define the bolded word in the following sentences from the text. Use clues from the surrounding words to figure out the meaning of the bolded word.


1. Now and again she would glance up at the clock, but without anxiety, merely to please herself with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer the time he would come.



2. The drop of the head as she bent over her sewing was curiously tranquil.



3. Her skin – for this was her sixth month with child – had acquired a wonderful translucent quality, the mouth was soft…



4. …and the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger, darker than before.



5. She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man, and to feel – almost as a sunbather feels in the sun – that warm glow that came out of him to her when they were alone.



6. She lowered herself back slowly into the chair, watching him all the time with those large, bewildered eyes.



7. As the wife of a detective, she knew quite well what her penalty would be.





8. She tried a smile. It came out peculiar. She tried again.



9. …then naturally it would be a shock and she’d become frantic with grief and horror.



10. Her husband, he told her, had been killed by a blow on the back of the head administered with a heavy blunt instrument…



11. The four men searching the rooms seemed to be growing weary, a trifle exasperated.



12. They stood around rather awkwardly with the drinks in their hands, uncomfortable in her presence, trying to say consoling things to her.