Do Now - Monday - 2/17/19

The words used in which sentence most strongly describe damage caused by a hurricane?

• The destructive hurricane damaged homes, land, and roadways.

• The loud, dark, windy hurricane damaged windows and trees and flooded roads.

• The strong winds of the hurricane caused windows to break, trees to fall, and roads to flood.

• The hurricane's destructive winds crashed through windows, demolished trees, and erased roads.

Excerpt from In George’s Shoes

Natalie Stewart

¹ Owen kicked dirt beyond home plate, sending cloudy powder into the humid summer air. He scowled and pouted. He exhaled up at the sweat that trickled down his forehead as he hoisted the densely packed satchel from the ground. His baseball team, the Trail Blazers, had just won yet another series game; Owen, however, was feeling irritated.

Which is an antonym for the word scowled in paragraph 1?

• grinned

• stared

• shouted

• frowned

Which lists the words from least to most happy?

• content, joyful, ecstatic

• joyful, content, ecstatic

• content, ecstatic, joyful

• ecstatic, joyful, content