Wonders Vocabulary Bud Not Buddy

"I was going to have to try to make a better first _____________________ on Miss.Thomas, she had to think I was pretty babyish what with me crying my eyes out."

CHOOSE THE CORRECT VOCABULARY WORD

• stampede

• impression

• copacetic

• alto

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Good, 'cause if you're going to be traveling with us it just wouldn't look too ______________ for you to be carrying that ratty old bag."

CHOOSE THE CORRECT VOCABULARY WORD.

• alto

• prodigy

• copacetic

• impression

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

"This is my old __________ saxophone case, I've been hanging on to it for three years."

CHOOSE THE CORRECT VOCABULARY WORDS

• prodigy

• alto

• gigs

• insinuating

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

"This night, for the first time on any stage anywhere, you have listened to the smooth saxophonist musings of that ________________ of the reed, Mr.Sleepy LaBone!"

CHOOSE THE CORRECT VOCABULARY WORD.

• impression

• bawling

• gigs

• prodigy

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"A lot of times we get ___________________ playing polkas and waltzes and a lot of these white folks wouldn't hire us if they were a Negro band so Deed goes out and sets up everything."

• gigs

• bawling

• ornery

• rummaging

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

"Where did you find these? Didn't I tell you not to do any __________________________ around in that room you been sleeping?"

CHOOSE THE CORRECT VOCABULARY WORD.

• hue

• ornery

• rummaging

• bawling

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Shucks, Herman E. Calloway was ________________________ his eyes out. He was acting like me being his grandson was the worst news anyone could ever give you in your life."

CHOOSE THE CORRECT VOCABULARY WORD.

• insinuating

• ornery

• bawling

• gigs

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"James, what are you ___________________? I knew there was something familiar about this boy, I don't know how I missed it before."

CHOOSE THE CORRECT VOCABULARY WORD.

• insinuating

• gigs

• rummaging

• bawling

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"This is a hard world, especially for a Negro woman, there's a hundred million folks out there of every shade and ________, both male and female, who are dying to be harder on her than I ever could be."

CHOOSE THE CORRECT VOCABULARY WORD.

• hue

• gigs

• ornery

• rummaging

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"If you can remember, Bud, be patient with him. That _____________ old man upstairs is very, very hurt right now and I just can't say where he's going to land after this."

CHOOSE THE CORRECT VOCABULARY WORD.

• bawling

• insinuating

• gigs

• ornery

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4