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“Charles”Take out two sheets of paper.
By Shirley Jackson
Infer, surmise, conclude•
Take out two sheets of paper. Copy vocabulary words. Make a guess
as to the meaning
• Renounced• Swaggering• Insolently• Simultaneously• Elaborately• Incredulously• Haggard• fresh
• re - again• reassure• rebate• rebel• react• reassert• rebirth• receive• recall • recommence• recollect• reconsider• recovery• recoup• redirect• redress• recur• refrain• regain• reheat• reissue• rehash• rematch• remarry• replicate• repay• reorder• reschedule• restart• reschedule• retake• return• review• reverse• rebound• rewire• rework• resurface
renounced
What does renounce mean?
• I renounced meat and began a vegan diet.
Latin and Greek roots
• Re: again
• Nounce: messenger
• Renounce: gave up
• Announce, pronounce, denounce
swaggering
What does swaggering mean?
• He was a swaggering character who entered the room with an attitude.
insolently
Example:
• The rat insolently asked me if I was alive when time began.
Simultaneously:
elaborately
Elaborately- overdoing, dramatically, Painstakingly
• I dressed quickly before walking my dog, but before the prom, I dressed elaborately, taking hours to get ready.
incredulously
Cred means believe
• I asked incredulously, “Did you really win the lottery?”
• Incorrect-in= not• Not believable
Haggard (adj)
haggard
• After teaching my wild class, I felt haggard and worn out, but after the day at the spa, I felt renewed.
fresh
• Grandma warned me, “Don’t be fresh with me young lady.”
foreshadowing
Point of View
• Point of view: the perspective from which a story is told.
• 1st person: the narrator participates in the action and can only tell what he or she knows.
• 3rd person: the narrator is not a character in the story but the events from the “outside.”
Point of view/foreshadowing
• I watched him go off the first morning with older girl next door, seeing clearly that an era of my life was ended, my sweet-voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a long trousered, swaggering character who forgot to stop at the corner and wave goodbye to me