A Picture Book of Jesse Owens

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A Picture Book of Jesse Owens

• Unit 1_Lesson 5

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Word Knowledge

• Line 1 sharecroppers fireplace newspaper
  playground
• Line 2 summer director seconds
  delivering
• Line 3 hardly friendly happily hastily
• Line 4 future junior prejudice
  afternoons community
• S1 Willpower helps Olympic runners overcome
  their opponents.
• S2 Jesse went to college in Ohio and was on the
  track team there, too.
• S3 Jesse Owens ran gracefully and agilely.
• S4 The community pool will open each afternoon.

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Vocabulary

• exhibition (ex-hi-bi-tion) a public display, as
  of
• works of art. (pg. 86)
• pneumonia (pneu-mo-nia) a serious lung disease.
  (pg. 77)
• prejudice ( pre-ju-dice) unfounded fear or
  suspicion of a particular group, race, or
  religion (pg. 84)
• sharecroppers (share-crop-pers) tenant farmers
  who pay rent by sharing the crops with the
  landlord. (pg. 76)
• Spectacle (spec-ta-cle) a grand public
  performance or display. (pg. 86)

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Spelling words