VOCABULARY

You may wish to draw students' attention to the following words before they begin reading the book. One way to make vocabulary lessons fun is to use the words in a Funny Fortune activity. Explain that students should first look up the word, then write a oneline fortune using the word. For example:

Today you'll find your missing pen in your rucksack.
Don't worry—there's no casket in your near future.
This month you should stop sneering about homework and do it!

Students can place their fortunes in a box and take turns picking one, reading it to the class, and discussing the underlined word.

rucksack

cocoon

frothy

contempt

exasperated

wryly

sneering

bellowed

staccato

defiantly

disdainfully

condescendingly

hoodlums

sabbath

typhus

occupation

synagogue

extinguished

absorbed

dubiously

rummaging

impassive

rabbi

protruded

crocheting

imperious

hobbled

trousseau

intoned

donned

intricate

abruptly

latticed

dawdled

tentatively

brusque

rationed

gnarled

tantalize

haughtily

appliqued

taut

swastika

ruefully

insolently

curfew

specter

caustic

permeated

casket

lunged

deftly

strident

deprivation