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Book Summary For The War of the Worlds

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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 The War of the Worlds is arranged in order of appearance:

The War of the Worlds: Book I — The Coming of the Martians

  • pp.11-22 The Eve of the War-The Falling Star
    transient, complacency, infusorians, disillusionment, equatorial, attenuated, eloquent, alien, incessant, apostles, unanimity, fluctuating, incandescent, velocity, scrutiny, transverse, ascribe

  • pp. 23-52 On Horsell Common-The Fighting Begins

    jostling, concussion, luminous, convulsively, fungoid, tumultuous, aperture, vantage, duputation, impinged, stupefied, parabolic, combustible, incontinently, novelty, trivial, hummack, blundering, gables, incongruity, smoldering, pinnacle

  • pp. 53-80 In the Storm-What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton

    fusillade, contagion, harassed, reverberation, disgorged, lethargy, palings, furtively, scintillated, smote, ejaculatory, ransack, treble, formidable, simultaneously, heeding, din

  • pp. 81-109 How I fell in with the Curate-What had Happened in Surrey

    omnibus, sabbatical, antagonist, sentinel, heliographs, officiate, imminent, prevail, disseminating, repulsed, exhort, conspicuous, parapet, ineffectual, nettles, kopjes, cleft, insoluble, haphazard, spasmodic, palpable

  • pp. 110-138 The Exodus from London- The Thunder Child

    trudge, pluckily, paroxysm, portmanteau, staccato, dubiously, annihilate, throng, stipple, incessant, ramification, clamber, deter, exorbitant, reverted, bulwark, gaunt, obliquely

    The War of the Worlds: Book II — The Earth Under the Martians

  • pp.139-164 Underfoot- The Days of Imprisonment
    remonstrance, contort, aghast, fortnight, aperture, pulverized, transient, carnivorous, recuperate, supercede, defunct, facetious, gesticulations, decorum, pivot, scullery, impulsively, contrivance, acute

  • pp. 165-194 The Death of the Curate-The Man on Putney Hilltussle

    ventured, pantry, phantasm, sumptuous, succumb, lurid, exuberance, fecundity, fronds, cankering, vestige, disconsolate, prostrate, culvert, susceptible, reconnoiter, propagation

  • pp. 195-216 Dead London-The Epilogue

    magnum, imperceptibly, putrefaction, tortuous, apprehension, morbidity, shilling, physiology, galvanized



    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 words list for The War of the Worlds written by H.G. Wells.