The Circuit Vocabulary

The word "labor" means...

• a type of car driven by braceros

• work that a person is paid for

• a tool used for cooking

• the name of a person who works on a farm

Speaking with deep, difficult breaths is _______

• gasping

• shrieking

• murmuring

• exclaiming

pulled or stretched by force is

• jalopy

• savor

• strain

• period

Sometimes we put story events in __________ order, telling what happened first, next, and last.

• gasping

• sequential

• labor

• period

Ms. LaParle __________calming words to her new baby cousin, Theo.

• savored

• gasped

• strained

• murmured

Mr. Hack went to Chicago and ate deep dish pizza. He loved it so much that he __________ every bite.

• savored

• strained

• murmured

• bracero

this person works on a farm during different harvest seasons

• savor

• period

• bracero

• jalopy

Mrs. Ryan's first car was a _________: an old, rusted Chevy Cavalier.

• space shuttle

• corvette

• jalopy

• wagon

There are 9 ________ in our school day at AMS.

• jalopies

• sharecroppers

• events

• periods

If you do something hesitantly, you are_____

• being careful and cautious

• not interested in what you are doing

• listening carefully

• thinking about something else