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Book Summary For A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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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 of 95 words for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is arranged in order of appearance, as indicated:

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Book One:
    Chapters I-VI: tenement, ragamuffin, swagger, prophesied, speculation, cambric, interminable, prospered, berserk, vivaciously, persistent, concession, premonition, differentiate, immaculate, consumption, cleavered, monotonously, unconsumed, vestibule, profanity
  • Book Two:
    Chapters VII-XIV: intricately, fetching, illiteracy, peculiarity, indignantly, bucolic, sprig, skeptical, filigree, intricate, banshee, celibacy, repose, taunt, wheedling, disdain, dole
  • Book Three:
    Chapters XV-XXIII: prodigiously, languorously, gallantly, dubious, sordidly, hordes, saunter, relegate, unorthodox
    Chapters XXIV-XXIX: gratis, contempt, redeemed, dandified, conjecture, surreptitiously, vivacious, articulated, deprivation, thwarted, harassed, sodden, whopping, adornment
    Chapters XXX-XXXVII: dainty, detachment, submissiveness, indignity, unflinchingly, lulled, putrid, irrelevantly, banister, shudder, debonair, lament, fastidious
    Chapters XXXIII-XLII: stout, contrite, supplicatingly, contorted, infinitesimal
  • Book Four:
    Chapters XLIII-XLVI: solicitously, contemptuously, poignantly, spats, genuflect, vestment
    Chapters XLVII-LIII: vaudeville, rhetorically, mollified, obscurities, matriculate, munitions, gangling
  • Book Five:
    Chapters LV-LVI: prohibition, jauntily, sachetThank you Janice Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.