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Vocabulary Word of the Day dire and peril
dire -
Warning of or
having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous, awful, dreadful, horrible, grim
Page 29 - See example for peril.
Page 91 - But if she can't make out the dark figure, she'll die
within a year of a dire disease.
peril -
Imminent danger, threat, risk, hazard
Page 29 - Whoever it
was would go on by and never know that under his feet Chris Brabson hung by his
fingertips in the direst kind of peril.
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Civil War Literature Unit
Lesson 3 -
Rebellion
1 Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
by Deborah Hopkinson, James Ransome (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.8 Point Value 0.5
Activities
In Chapter 3 Jethro gives Chris pawpaws to help him recover from his near death incident. What are pawpaws?
Growing Pawpaws http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/HO-220.pdf
Pawpaws http://www.hort.cornell.edu/extension/commercial/fruit/mfruit/pawpaw.html