William’s House by Ginger Howard

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Williams Houseby Ginger Howard

• Genre Historical Fiction
• Vocabulary Strategy Context Clues
• Comprehension Skill Draw Conclusions
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Elementary
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Words to Know

• barrels
• cellar
• clearing
• fashioned
• halt

pegs spoil steep succotash
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cellar

• an underground room or rooms

Picture of the cellar taken at the De Locht
Museum in Melderslo, Limburg, Netherlands. You
can see a lot of preserving jars to keep the food
for a longer time. On the right are stone
barrels to make sauerkraut.
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spoil

• to become bad or not good to eat

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clearing

• an open space of land in a forest

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barrels

• containers with round, flat tops and bottoms and
  sides that curve out slightly

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halt

• stop

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steep

• having a sharp slope almost straight up and
  down

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fashioned

• made created

This pointed tool was fashioned from a human
tibia bone.
This bear was fashioned out of a babys favorite
blanket.
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pins or small bolts of wood or metal used to
fasten parts together
pegs
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a mixture of cooked vegetables, particularly lima
beans and corn
succotash
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boltsrodsplugs
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pegs
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containercaskcylinder
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barrel
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to ceasestand stillpause
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pegs spoil succotash
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halt
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extreme sharpperpendicular
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pegs spoil succotash
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steep
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rotruin decay
halt barrels clearing steep fashioned
pegs spoil succotash
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spoil
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basementvault
halt barrels clearing steep fashioned
pegs spoil succotash
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cellar
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fieldlot tract
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clearing
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