Vocabulary- Castle on Hester Street

Spoken in a very soft voice.

• valuable

• whispered

• moment

• talking

something that is worth a lot of money.

• inspected

• moment

• photographs

• valuable

Pictures taken with a camera.

• immigrated

• photographs

• inspected

• opportunity

A chance for good things to happen

• inspected

• moment

• opportunity

• immigrated

A short amount of time

• moment

• valuable

• inspected

• arrived

To get where you are going

• inspected

• arrived

• immigrated

• moment

To look at something closely or carefully

• inspected

• photographs

• immigrated

• moment

To come to a new country to live

• arrived

• inspected

• immigrated

• moment

At the beginning of the story , what is the setting?

• Russia

• America

• Poland

• somewhere in the ocean

What was the lesson we can learn from The Castle on Hester Street?

• always tell the truth

• early bird gets the worm

• work hard

• be creative