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… |
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Anthology Vocabulary
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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.
ReplyDeleteJenny made a mistake but she was soppose to say still learning them but anyway I like these words their challenging!
ReplyDeleteOn 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)!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jacob
ReplyDeleteI didn't know Immense meant big until we did the vocabulary.
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