“Charles”Take out two sheets of paper.

By Shirley Jackson

Infer, surmise, conclude•

Take out two sheets of paper. Copy vocabulary words. Make a guess

as to the meaning

• Renounced• Swaggering• Insolently• Simultaneously• Elaborately• Incredulously• Haggard• fresh

• re - again• reassure• rebate• rebel• react• reassert• rebirth• receive• recall • recommence• recollect• reconsider• recovery• recoup• redirect• redress• recur• refrain• regain• reheat• reissue• rehash• rematch• remarry• replicate• repay• reorder• reschedule• restart• reschedule• retake• return• review• reverse• rebound• rewire• rework• resurface

renounced

What does renounce mean?

• I renounced meat and began a vegan diet.

Latin and Greek roots

• Re: again

• Nounce: messenger

• Renounce: gave up

• Announce, pronounce, denounce

swaggering

What does swaggering mean?

• He was a swaggering character who entered the room with an attitude.

insolently

Example:

• The rat insolently asked me if I was alive when time began.

Simultaneously:

elaborately

Elaborately- overdoing, dramatically, Painstakingly

• I dressed quickly before walking my dog, but before the prom, I dressed elaborately, taking hours to get ready.

incredulously

Cred means believe

• I asked incredulously, “Did you really win the lottery?”

• Incorrect-in= not• Not believable

Haggard (adj)

haggard

• After teaching my wild class, I felt haggard and worn out, but after the day at the spa, I felt renewed.

fresh

• Grandma warned me, “Don’t be fresh with me young lady.”

foreshadowing

Point of View

• Point of view: the perspective from which a story is told.

• 1st person: the narrator participates in the action and can only tell what he or she knows.

• 3rd person: the narrator is not a character in the story but the events from the “outside.”

Point of view/foreshadowing

• I watched him go off the first morning with older girl next door, seeing clearly that an era of my life was ended, my sweet-voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a long trousered, swaggering character who forgot to stop at the corner and wave goodbye to me