Meeting #2 - Vocabulary Enricher ( with a free short true-ish story! )

YAY!

Today, I was the Vocabulary Enricher for the book, The Phantom Tollbooth. We read until page 127, and next time we will read to page 160, and I will be the Travel Tracer (self-reminder!)

Today I shall share with you some of the words that I found puzzling or confusing, or that I didn't know. Some of the other ones may be words I thought may be difficult to understand for other people, or just plain old interesting. 

Page + paragraph	Word :)	The definition
58, 4	huff	a fit of petty annoyance
64,4	sowing	disseminate (spread) or introduce
64,4	wreaking	Inflicting (to inflict …..)
67,10	commendable	… deserving praise
69,3	macabre	disturbing because concerned with a fear of death
73,1	barren	too poor to produce vegetation
88,4	substantial	of considerable importance
98,3	commendable	fulfilling its function adequately
99,2	ominous	threateningly sinister
102,4	undertaking	a task which is taken on
104,1	scenic	providing impressive/pretty views
117,3	mirage	an optical illusion, of something that isn't there, but you see
120,4	crimson	a rich deep red/purple color
123,3	quizzically	questioningly, in a curious manner

Using some of the words above, I have written five sentences using my new found vocabulary. Cue some fabulous and imaginative sentences (I made up all of them!) They link together and create one dramatic short story involving the extremely interesting lives of our class, 6B. 1.  After mishearing what Jana had said, Gemma was wreaking havoc among 6B, by laughing loudly and obviously. 2. Ashley looked at Gemma quizzically, not understand why she was laughing so loud, and disrupting the whole class. 3. Anka and Sara gave Gemma an ominous look of annoyance, as both of them wanted to continue working on the project at hand. 4. After turning a bright shade of crimson, Gemma stood up dramatically and left the classroom, in a huff.  5. Much of the rest of 6B thought that the exit of Gemma was more than commendable, and the classroom returned to its normal state of concentrated work.

I hope you enjoyed my short story made of my new words :). This story probably has happened before anyway, so it isn't THAT fictional.... Anyway, I hope you learned some new words, and wait for next week for a new blog post of mine! Gemma