Vocabulary for “My Brother’s Keeper”

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Vocabulary for “My Brother’s Keeper”

Directions:

· On separate paper write the dictionary definitions for the underlined words below. Use the definition that is most commonly used in our language.

· Read the story “My Brother’s Keeper” for pleasure.

· Last, in your LA journal:

Copy a passage or two from the story that you would like the class to discuss. Also, give the page on which the quotation can be found.

menacing—

loomed—

somber—

desolately—

bewildered--

bleakly—

prestigious—

valedictorian—

alibi—