Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison - Vocab

In the context of the sentence "He literally opened that door for me and ended up inviting me to begin a voluntary program based on Shakespeare, which is my specialty, for these inmates that are not only the worst of the worst, at least in the eyes of the public...," the word 'literally' means

• figuratively

• truly

• loosely

• accidentally

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

In the context of the sentence "He literally opened that door for me and ended up inviting me to begin a voluntary program based on Shakespeare, which is my specialty, for these inmates that are not only the worst of the worst, at least in the eyes of the public...," the word 'specialty' means

• entertainment

• generalization

• profession

• pastime

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

In the sentence "They had the greatest need for education and for really any kind of programming and, ironically, they had the least available to them," the word 'ironically' means:

• kindly

• unexpectedly

• happily

• absurdly

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

In the sentence "So these are the prisoners who, over and over and over, have been told that they are not capable, that they are certainly not intelligent, that they are not able to take on these kinds of, you know, intellectual challenges, and so here comes somebody from the street knocking on their cell door and saying, hi, would you like to read some Shakespeare"?, the word 'capable' means

• able

• ignorant

• useless

• unskilled

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

In the sentence "So these are the prisoners who, over and over and over, have been told that they are not capable, that they are certainly not intelligent, that they are not able to take on these kinds of, you know, intellectual challenges, and so here comes somebody from the street knocking on their cell door and saying, hi, would you like to read some Shakespeare"?, the word 'intellectual' means

• body

• simple

• scholarly

• different

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

In the sentence "And I have to say some of their insights were beyond those of world-renowned professors I've studied with - from whom I'm learned a great deal," the word 'insights' means

• behaviors

• understandings

• questions

• rejections

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

In the sentence that includes "... as they analyzed Macbeth's motives, why he's giving in to do something that he knows that he doesn't want to do, it made them question their own motive," the word 'motive' means

• thoughtlessness

• reason

• hindrance

• discouragement

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

In the sentence that includes "You focus a lot of the book on - and I think the title comes from here too - is your friendship with one of the prison's, you know, again, we're using this kind of loaded language, but notorious prisoner," the word notorious means:

• moral

• surprised

• unknown

• wicked

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

In the sentence "And he did also at the age of 17 waive his right to ever appeal the sentence," the word 'waive' means

• question

• reject

• agree

• accept

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

In the sentence "He has a good sense of humor so I thought, of, he's just being silly, being flippant," the word 'flippant' means

• nice

• serious

• mannerly

• cocky

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4