Vocabulary - The Wild Life of Christian the Lion
Vocabulary for The Wild Life of Christian the Lion from Scholastic StoryWorks Jr. September 2019 Edition
Vocabulary - A Smile
Vocabulary Choice
Verbals
3 types of verbals: Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles
Using Context Clues
Use surrounding words to determine the meaning of a complex word in a phrase
Upcoming Superstars: The Prepositions
Meet the members of the new and upcoming band, The Prepositions. Prepositions are words that we use everyday, but we use them to describe a location, time or place. Select the preposition that best fits the sentence to unlock new members of the band!
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 9) by Booker T. Washington
As soon as the plans were drawn for the new building, the students began digging out the earth where the foundations were to be laid, working after the regular classes were over... I noted with satisfaction that a sentiment in favour of work was gaining ground. After a few weeks of hard work the foundations were ready, and a day was appointed for the laying of the corner-stone.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 8) by Booker T. Washington
All these ideas and needs crowded themselves upon us with a seriousness that seemed well-nigh overwhelming...We had only the little old shanty and the abandoned church which the good coloured people of the town of Tuskegee had kindly loaned us for the accommodation of the classes. ... we saw that our efforts were reaching, to only a partial degree, the actual needs of the people whom we wanted to lift up through the medium of the students whom we should educate and send out as leaders.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 4) by Booker T. Washington
Before going there I ...[thought] to secure an education meant to have a good, easy time, free from all necessity for manual labour. At Hampton I ... learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, ...for labour's own sake. ...I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 3) by Booker T. Washington
'I swept the recitation-room three times. Then I got a dusting-cloth and dusted it four times. All the woodwork around the walls, every bench, table, and desk, I went over four times with my dusting-cloth. .....I reported to the head teacher. She was a "Yankee" woman who knew just where to look for dirt. ... When she was unable to find one bit of dirt on the floor, or a particle of dust on any of the furniture, she ... remarked, "I guess you will do to enter this institution." -B. T. Washington
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 15) by Booker T. Washington
He pictured the Negro choosing slavery rather than extinction; recalled Crispus Attucks shedding his blood at the beginning of the American Revolution, that white Americans might be free, while black Americans remained in slavery; --Booker T. Washington