4.5.8: Roots, Nowhere Boy Chapters 10-12, Modifiers/Appositives

Match

Match each root with the correct definition.

• feeling; disease

• search or seek; ask

• climb

• voice; to call

path

quer/quir/ques/quis

scend

voc

• path

• quer/quir/ques/quis

• scend

• voc

Open Ended

Choose one word and define it/use it in a sentence (Try to challenge yourself!)

empathetic

request

condescend

vocalize

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Options (12)

psychopath

telepathy

pathogen

question

querulous

requirement

descend

transcend

ascendancy

vociferous

vocation

provocation

Sort the following words based on their use of the roots path, quer/quir/ques/quis, scend, and voc.

path (feeling; disease)

quer/quir/ques/quis (search or seek; ask

scend (climb)

voc (voice; to call)

Open Ended

What do you already know about WWII?

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Multiple Choice

What does Max's father do for a living?

• He creates resilience plans for NATO.

• He works for Max's Scout troop.

• He works in immigration for NATO.

• He teaches at Max's school.

Multiple Choice

How did Ahmed feel about taking money and not just food?

• He did not think it mattered because it was just loose change and the family had so much.

• He felt too guilty and decided to only take food.

• It troubled him more, but he promised himself he would pay the family back.

• He felt too guilty and decided to beg on the streets instead.

Open Ended

Do you think it was smart of Ahmed to roam the neighborhood on his own? Why or why not?

You can start your response with:

I think it was/was not smart because . . .

Multiple Select

Which passage(s) best foreshadow the fact that Max will discover Ahmed soon?

Choose 2

• As the whispers grew louder, morphing into tense voices, he overheard his mother say, "We should have sent him to the American school."

• Max sat bolt upright. Downstairs, a door rattled closed. The confusion of sleep melted away and he realized he wasn’t in his bed on the third floor, but on the first floor.

• The cat stared at him with his green eyes, then bounded up the stairs.

• Max didn’t believe in ghosts, but sometimes, tossing and turning in his bed, he’d hear the floorboards creaking, a light footstep.

Draw

Instructions: In each sentence, underline the appositive or appositive phrase and mark whether it is restrictive (R) or nonrestrictive (NR).