A Brother

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A Brothers Promise

• Open Court Unit 6_Lesson 2

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• Line 1 liberty liberal liberate libertine
• Line 2 statue chandelier mademoiselle promise
• Line 3 polished laughed winked excited
• Line 4 howling unwound crown lounge crowd
• S1 Disciplines such as languages, history, and
  philosophy are known as the liberal arts.
• S2 Mademoiselle, can you show me the way to the
  library?
• S3 The teacher walked into the room with a pile
  of books in his hands.
• S4 The dog began howling at the crowd that had
  gathered for the parade.

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• hoax a trick or deception meant as a practical
  joke or to fool others (pg. 84)
• The magic trick was all a hoax.
• spyglass a small telescope (pg. 587)
• Steve used the spyglass to see what his little
  brother was doing in the backyard.
• loomed to appear in an impressively great or
  exaggerated form. (pg. 587)
• The mountain loomed against the dark sky.
• monstrosity (mon-stros-i-ty) the quality or
  condition of being unusually large enormous.
  (pg. 588)
• The monstrosity of the oil spill was too much
  for the workers to take and they began to cry.
• dignitary (dig-ni-tary) those who have a high
  position or office, as in government or the
  church (pg. 594)
• The volunteers met with the church dignitary.

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Spelling Dipthongs

1. adjoin
2. appoint
3. boisterous
4. chowder
5. convoy
6. corduroy
7. destroy
8. devour
9. drowsy
10. nowadays

1. prowler
2. renown
3. scoundrel
4. scowl
5. turmoil
6. howling
7. unwound
8. crown
9. lounge
10. crowd