Word Reporter

Name: Marla Rodriguez

Book: The Bluest Eye
Chapters: 8-12
Your job is to look up definitions to unknown words and create an
excellent sentence using each.
During the Lit Circle Meeting, Do the Following:
1.

Make sure everyone in your group copies down each word and
definition

2.

Together create a new sentence and write this on your

vocabulary sheet

3.

Make sure the teacher checks the group's sentence for

accuracy

1. Word: Slithered Page 135 Paragraph 1

Sentence from the book: The music slithered over the cane fields and into
the pine grove
The definition is: to move smoothly, quietly, or secretly like a snake
My sentence is: The snake slithered through the desert
Our team sentence is: David slithered his hand around my waist
2. Word: Threnody Page 137 Paragraph 3
Sentence from the book: Their voices blended into a threnody of nostalgia
about pain.

The definition is: a song or poem that expresses sorrow for someone who is
dead
My sentence is: My grandmother has composed several threnodies since
my granfathers death.
Our team sentence is: They sung a threnody at the funeral.
3. Word: Vexed Page 156 Paragraph 2
Sentence from the book: When it was gone, he stood up and in a vexed and
whiny voice shouted at Cholly.
The definition is: difficult and frustrating to deal wit
My sentence is: Last week I was feeling vexed because of partials.
Our team sentence is: My mother was vexed because I lefy without telling
her, so she hasnt spoke to me since then.
4. Word: Amiss Page 178 Paragraph 5
Sentence from the book: But you too are amiss here, Lord.
The definition is: in the wrong way, in a mistaken way
My sentence is: You are juging amiss.
Our team sentence is: She thought shed win the election, but she was amiss.
5. Word: Riddance Page 200 Paragraph 5
Sentence from the book: Yes. Good riddance
The definition is: to express relief that someone or something has gone

My sentence is: After we had thet fight, I felt such a riddance she left the
apartment.
Our team sentence is: Since he got well I have been feeling such a riddance.

My comment or question about this story is: It is a very difficult and

complicated story, it makes us realize that African American communities
suffer not only from racism, but from hate in their own environment and
children are victims of this. It shows us, form a child prespective, that life
was very difficult for them and they suffered a lot of abuses.