All Summer in a Day vocabulary

What context would match the term peering?

• Reading a story in English class

• Trying to see the lions at the zoo

• Watching your favorite TV show

• Looking across the classroom to see who is at the door

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CCSS.L.2.4A

What context would match the term compounded?

• falling in the mud after standing out in the rain

• having to study for a test in Biology

• going from your first block to your second block class

• eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day

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CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.4

What context would match the term gush?

• when the rain fall becomes lighter

• eating a lot of food and feeling very full

• being so excited and talking quickly

• when you are at an awards ceremony

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CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.4

What context would match the term concussion?

• talking quickly

• having something bad happen

• carrying someone who needed help

• a brain injury from hitting one's head

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CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

What context would match the term bore?

• devices that will be necessary to complete a certain task

• having little kids hand you all the stuff to carry into the house

• when walking outside and it stopped raining suddenly

• treating others who don't have your knowledge as though they are less intelligent than you

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CCSS.L.2.4A

What context would match the term slacked or slackening?

• winning the lottery the day after losing one's employment

• when someone acts like others are less valuable than himself or herself

• when a big project is done and so you temporarily have less work to do

• choosing not to buy the luxurious watch even though you love it

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CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.4

What context would match the term repercussions?

• forgetting my sweater because I woke up too late for work

• having a test in Biology to study for

• being respectful at a meeting

• taking care of other people's problems for them

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CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.4

What context would match the term muffling?

• choosing not to buy any fast food this month so that money can be used for other purposes

• having only five minutes to eat lunch because I had to wait for my mom to bring it to school for me

• going on and on about something that happened that meant a lot to someone

• using a sound machine so the little children aren't woken up by the sounds of the adults cooking in the kitchen

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CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.4

What context would match the term fortuitous?

• having family who is very forgiving

• eating your favorite food for dinner

• using the magnifying device on the telescope

• hitting one's head at a football practice

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CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.4

What context would match the term haughty?

• studying the answer choices, spending time to analyze them

• the stress or emotion that stays with you after a trying event in life

• trying to make certain that others don't hear your conversation with your best friend

• talking down to people who don't know as much as you do about a certain topic

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CCSS.L.2.4A