Thursday, March 10, 2011

Anthology Vocabulary

Key Vocabulary
Definition
Sentence
Bunkhouse
(p.424)
A building in a camp where a group of people sleep
Starting tomorrow, you go into the bunkhouse and wake…
Cords (of wood)
(p.430)
Measures for stacks of cut wood
“The jacks are paid according to the number of cords they cut in a pay period…”
Immense
(p.424)
Huge, very large
Immense men with long beards and wild hair were jumping around to the fiddler’s tunes…
Landscape
(p.421)
A stretch of land
Beyond the depot a road ran straight and flat to where the white landscape met the forest.
Lumberjacks
(p.422)
People who chop down trees and haul the wood to a sawmill
… he realized with a start that he shadows were the lumberjacks walking in the moonlight.
Snowshoes
(p.422)
Frames attached to shoes and use for walking across snow
Mr. Murray turned his snowshoes toward the camp at the edge of the forest.
Timber
(p.422)
Trees that can be used as building wood
Soon he could smell the sharp green fragrance of freshly cut timber
Woodsman
(p.438)
A person who works or lives in a forest
“You are a woodsman now,” he said…

5 comments:

  1. Jennifer Sanchez MartinezMarch 10, 2011 at 7:24 AM

    I like these kind of words some are hard to remember and some are easy to remember.On the Pr-Test some words were kind of hard because it was my first time to learn them, but now I know them already, but I`m stilllearning them.

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  2. Jenny made a mistake but she was soppose to say still learning them but anyway I like these words their challenging!

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  3. On the pre-test I got 6 right and missed 2 but, on the post-test I will try to get all of them right or 100% (same thing)!

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  4. I agree with Jacob

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  5. I didn't know Immense meant big until we did the vocabulary.

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