Vocab Week 13 Part 2

Vocab Week 13 Part 2

Motionless

• without motion

• still

• not moving

Motionless

I look up at the school clock with its hammerlike tick. I could tear open its back, and perhaps the springs and gears would jump and time stop. This test could stop, and my friends freeze, pencils in their hands, erasers, too.

Motionless

In the poem, the narrator daydreams that time stops, the test stops, and his friends freeze, or become motionless.

Root word: mot

Mot is a root word. A root is "word or part of a word that is used to make other words." The root word mot means 'move.'

Open Ended

Find who is motionless, or not moving, in this part of the poem, and list them as your answer.

"I walk out to the playground, my eight fingers and two thumbs wrapped around a baseball bat. The janitor is frozen to his broom, the gardener to his lasso of hose and sprinkler, and the principal to his walkie-talkie. I hit homer after homer, and they stand, faces frozen, and moths open, their eyes maybe moving, maybe following the flight of each sweet homer.

Who is motionless on the playground?

Multiple Choice

What is the new word we're learning that means "without motion, still, or not moving?"

• fanciful

• reverie

• motionless

Reverie

• pleasant daydream

Reverie

The narrator's daydream is about people standing motionless in amazement as he hits homer after homer (a homerun in baseball).

Reverie

One of my favorite reveries is that I am flying high above the ground, and I can see everything.

Open Ended

What is one of your favorite reveries, or pleasant daydreams?

Multiple Choice

What is the new word we're learning that means a "pleasant daydream?"

• fanciful

• reverie

• motionless

Fanciful

• imaginary

• not real

Fanciful

Fanciful and real are antonyms, they are opposites. The narrator's baseball reverie is fanciful. It is imaginary.

Fanciful

We use the word fanciful to describe very strange or unbelievable characters, creatures, and events in fairy tales and science fiction stories.

Fanciful

I just read a book about a brother and sister who are transported to another dimension by going into the brother's drawing. The story is fanciful, because I know that something like that could not really happen. It's imaginary.

Open Ended

What is something you have read or seen in a movie or on TV that is obviously fanciful?

Open Ended

Imagine you are going to write a story about a fanciful animal that you will keep as a pet. What does your fanciful animal look like? Sound like? How will it move (paws, fins, hands and feet, etc.)? What will you call the animal? Describe your animal in detail.

Multiple Choice

What is the new word we're learning that means "imaginary, or not real?"

• motionless

• reverie

• fanciful