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Book Summary For Their Eyes Were Watching God

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  • Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6 Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4 Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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A vocabulary word list for Their Eyes Were Watching God is arranged by chapter:

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Chapter 1: horizon, resignation, sodden, relish, scorched, vigorously, treacherous, revelation, monstropolous
Chapter 2: aggravating, inaudible, ecstatic, remorseless, pollinate, lacerate, desecrate
Chapter 3: cosmic, mien
Chapter 4: dazzling, skillet
Chapter 5: saunter, disconsolate, broach, preside, percale, metropolis, innovation, banister, temerity

Chapter 6: indulge, dilemma, disposition, orator, eulogy, distended, ponderous, hyperbole, compression, discomfiture, wallow, beseech, chasten, scornful

Chapter 7: prosperous, pugnacious, promontory, fractions, commiserate, irresistible
Chapter 8: scoundrel, relentlessly, ostentatiously, counterpane, lavish, futile
Chapter 9: uninitiated, dominant, resurrection, cur, usurper, paunch
Chapter 10: swagger, scimitar, gallant, quench
Chapter 11: temporize, sullen, notion, transfiguration, newel post
Chapter 12: endurable, proposition, languish
Chapter 13: trolley car, bunion, hypocrite, feeble
Chapter 14: phosphorescent, transient, flivver, clamor, suppress

Chapter 15: maul

Chapter 16: compelling, luxurious, mingle, fanatical, sacrilege, dwindle, homage, indiscriminate, unattainable, seraph, desecrator, transmutation
Chapter 17: pamper, stagger, fracas
Chapter 18: lisp, horde, peevish, velocity, turbulent, oblique, hackles
Chapter 19:britches, trifle, malice, dishevelment, privy, disgorge, serum, supplication, pallet, delirium, bailiff, wanton



Thank you, Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com of a vocabulary word list for Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.