Module 1 Lesson 26 Updated 10/24

​Word	​Definition	​Synonym or Antonym	​Sentence or Example
state of mind (phrase)	particular emotional or mental condition	​synonym: mood	​
​trapped (v.)	​caught in a trap	​synonym: snared	​
​	​someone or something that lives or continues beyond or in spite of	​	A survivor copes with and overcomes hardship
​smothering (v.)	​to suffocate, stifle, or suppress	suffocate	​
glowering (v.)	To glare with hostility.	scowl	​
companion (n.)	one who spends time with another

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Module 1 Lesson 26

Essential Question

How can enduring tremendous hardship contribute to personal transformation?

Focusing Question 6

What makes the characters in Out of the Dust survivors?

​Lessons 26-29
Pages 170-227

Poll

What does it mean to be a survivor?

• To overcome something horrible and move on with life.

• To become stronger because of dealing with something painful.

• To not let life break them.

Poll

What does "state of mind" mean?

• if you're happy, sad, angry, lonely

• A combination of what you're feeling and what you're thinking.

• Your general mood.

Caught in a trap.

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Trapped (v.)

Someone or something that lives or continues beyond or in spite of.

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survivor (n.)

A survivor copes with and overcomes hardship.

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Particular emotional or mental condition.

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state of mind (n.)

mood

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Text Dependent Questions

Reminder: Text Dependent Question answers are to come directly from the text. You should provide evidence AND elaboration for each question.

Open Ended

1. Why does Billie Jo feel like Aunt Ellis’s invitation “[glowers]” at her (173)? How does glower help reveal Billie Jo’s feelings?

Open Ended

2. What does Billie Jo mean when uses the figurative language "I think we're both turning to dust" (175)

Open Ended

3. How can the description of the land and its response to rain (such as its “parched lips” and the “primed and greedy earth”) also be a description of what's happening with the characters (176–179)

Open Ended

4. Billie Jo wants to be “out of the dust” (181). What does she mean, literally and figuratively?

Open Ended

5. Why does Billie Jo feel like “a trap…/ [snaps] down on [her throat]” when she tries to cheer for Mad Dog (183)? How does this simile reveal Billie Jo’s state of mind?

Open Ended

6. Why is Bayard Kelby “sorry as dust” in the poem “Baby” (184–186)? What does this simile reveal about Billie Jo’s father’s state of mind?

Open Ended

7. How does the imagery in “Old Bones” reveal Billie Jo’s state of mind?