Vocabulary Collectors
{"Image DocumentName": "Vocabulary Collectors", "Image ImageDescription": "From The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Read this paragraph from a famous novel. Kino and Juana came slowly down to the beach and to Kino s canoe, which was the one thing of value he owned in the world. It was very old. Kino s grandfather had brought it from Nayarit, and he had given it to Kino s father, and so it had come to Kino. It was at once property and source of food, for a man with a boat can guarantee a woman that she will eat something. It is the bulwark against starvation. And every year Kino refinished his canoe with the hard shell-like plaster by the secret method that had also come to him from his father. Now he came to the canoe and touched the bow tenderly as he always did. He laid his diving rock and his basket and the two ropes in the sand by the canoe. And he folded his blanket and laid it in the bow. Let\u2019s focus on what should be a 25-cent word for everyone, including\u2014perhaps\u2014your teacher. Can you decipher this word\u2019s meaning based on clues (context) in the same sentence, or in nearby sentences. Discuss possible answers with a partner. (Click here to open a printable version of this text.) This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}