Activities
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Vocabulary
succumb - to submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming
desire; give up or give in, surrender
succumb - Page 66 - If I didn't succumb to starvation, I would be here for a long time, with hateful mistresses and with Hattie ordering me about.
stalwart - having or marked by imposing physical strength, vigorous,
determined, unfaltering, steadfast, unfaltering
stalwartly - Chapter 7 - Page 69 - It didn't take him long to find her, marching stalwartly forward across what was now the great gray expanse of one flagstone, suitcase in hand.
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Vocabulary Practice with Words from the first 4 days.
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Book Summaries
The Castle in the Attic - William makes plans for shrinking Mrs. Phillips so he will not have to leave her.
Ella Enchanted - Ella is in finishing school where she is a good student, makes a friend named Areida, and is treated cruelly by Hattie.