Book Summary For Life of Pi

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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 Life of Pi is arranged by chapter

  • Life of Pi: Chapter 1 through 4 (14 words):
    AN – purveyor, obscurely, exemplary; 1 – in situ, indolence, elicited, illustrious; 3 – ludicrous, credible; 4 – incessant, profusion, abiding, compulsion, discernment
  • Life of Pi: Chapter 5 through 24 (14 words):
    5 – aspiring; 14 – amenable; 17 – unremitting, adversity, deportment, petulant, placidly; 18 – hovel, entailed; 20 – guttural; 23 – secular, askance, piety, apoplectic
  • Life of Pi: Chapter 25 through 45 (17 words):
    25 – depravity; 33 – sullenly, plausible; 38 – dyspeptic; 41 – protruded; 3 – preceding, carrion, diligent, indiscriminate, aversion; 45 – imperceptible, bask, remonstrations, revulsion, empathy, callous, amicably
  • Life of Pi: Chapter 46 through 53 (17 words):
    46 – chromatic, incongruously, dilated, formidable, forlorn, coherence, ineffectually, invigorating; 49 – conundrum, insouciant; 50 – dire; 51 – supplication; 53 – lucidity, oppressive, poignancy, rufous, voraciously
  • Life of Pi: Chapter 54 through 70 (18 words):
    54 – erratic, attrition; 55 – radical; 56 – unerring; 58 – cryptic, injunction, gastronomic; 60 – throe; 61 – sentient, sanguinary; 62 – lethargic, marred; 63 – putrid, fitful; 64 – disfiguring; 67 – multitude, gelatinous; 70 – forbearance
  • Life of Pi: Chapter 71 through 99 (18 words):
    71 – afflicting, pivotal; 72 – ordnance; 74 – consecrated; 79 – incongruously; 81 – sustenance; 89 – emaciated; 90 – infernal, obtuse, conjures; 91 – amply; 92 – delusion, olfactory, desalinated, rote, turmoil; 99 – feral, reprieve

    Thank you, Kara Penna, English Teacher at Hilton High School in Hilton, NY, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for Life of Pi by Yann Martel.