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Book Summary For A Town Called Alice

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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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88 vocabulary words for A Town Called Alice in order of appearance, as indicated:
Chapter 1:
solicitor, fortnight, budgerigar, affable, lusty, legacy, recede, ministrations, counterfoil, precipitate, concoct, bequest, probate, treacle, impetuous, invoke, macabre, dysentery, alibi, almoner
Chapter 2:
amah, dengue, tarmac, veranda, quay, jetty, molestation, scrupulously, rations, anaemic (anemic), undaunted, putrescent, lassitude, haversack, stupor, chaffer, covet, fomentation, embers
Chapter 3:
deplorable, sarong, tunic, desultory, fortuitous, vacuous, abduct, recurrent, wallop, emaciated, a litter, buoy, staccato, petrol, decrepit, cobber, billabong, aborigine, tenuous
Chapter 4:
devout, incredulity
Chapter 5:
matron, repatriate, yokel, temporize, tantalize, frock
Chapter 8:
inarticulate, poignant, wallaby, duffer
Chapter 9:
annex, parched, ford, corrugated, astride, fortnight, deteriorate, novelty, scuttle, impeded
Chapter 10:
tandem, chafe, starboard, artlessly, adjacent
Chapter 11:
barren, bizarre, curate

Thank you Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California for being the teacher contributor to www.MyVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for A Town Called Alice by Nevil Shute.