VOCABULARY

After introducing and discussing the following words from Guests to the class, you might have students try one or more these activities.

• Sort the words according to parts of speech. Caution students that some words can be more than one part of speech, depending upon use.

wampum

snare

roily

mollusk

predicament

chasm

gauge

gnarls

droned

hospitality

lichen

lure

pemmican

chided

swiveled

flint

haunches

rummaged

compromise

roused

sinew

frayed

vaulting

floundered

encountered

ricocheted

sneered

accusation

distraction

hovered

impersonating

indulgence

decipher

• Write the words on a calendar, one word to a date—school days only. Have students take turns being responsible for a word each day. Students can present their word in any way that they wish as long as they indicate its meaning.
• Have students record the words in a journal and use as many as they can in a journal entry.