Book Summary For The Once and Future King

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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 Once and Future King is arranged in order of appearance:(French accent marks will not appear!)

  • Incipit Liber Primus:The Sword in the Stone: 1-12
    astrolabe, etiquette, hooligan, hurl, snuggery, jesses, molt, calamity, doggedly, joust, girth, zodiac, cabalistic, cloisonne, truncheon, quest, testimonial, gait, portcullis, revere, trident, ponderous, languid, monarch, ravenous, vulnerable, quintain, canter, cumbrous, diminish, nigromant, tintinnabulation, dereliction, scimitar, anachronism, barb, impenetrable, embellish, sinewy, gnarled, venison, sentry, griffin, bramble, authentic, stagger, gangrene, pathology
  • Incipit Liber Primus:The Sword in the Stone:13-24
    compulsory, articulate, novelty, bracken, giddy, haunch, redoubtable, suet, breeches, quarry, transfix, necromancer, tranquil, spectrum, purgatory, vermilion, plaint, obstinate, fledging, inefficient, outrageous, disconsolate, ewer, alienate, devastate, urchin, fretful, decanter, complacent, tyrant, desolate, monastery, pommel
  • Incipit Liber Secundus:The Queen of Air and Darkness 1-14
    carrion, vehement, turbulence, immortal, apprehend, peerage, reminiscent, tonsure, dogged, shod, colleen, shillelagh, secular, chivalry, siege, obstinate, modicum, tuft, heraldic, foliation, miasma, quell, capitulate, carapace, phalanx, pulverize, litter, haggle, grail
  • Incipit Liber Tertius:The Ill-Made Knight 1-10
    maestro, blazoned, sinister, quest, glade, maim, cudgel, senility, panache, dilemma, impediment
  • Incipit Liber Tertius:The Ill-Made Knight 11-25
    bias, caricature, petit point, chaos, effervescence, misogynist, prey, notorious, compel, conniving, rigamarole, cuckold, inscrutable, incognito, menage, conviviality, taciturn, indigo, empathic, fleur-de-lis
    Incipit Liber Tertius:The Ill-Made Knight 26-45
    sumptuous, banister, ingratiate, infidel, errant, quandary, dogma, baffle, joust, condolence, precipice, beleaguer, coquetry, penance, heresy, turban, tempestuously, recrimination, intrigue, connivance, epigram, pompous, entanglement, magnanimity, callous, buffoon, siege, taboo
    Incipit Liber Quartus:The Candle in the Wind 1-14
    flamboyant, scrupulous, plait, tenacious, megalomania, cunning, defiance, thwart, ferret, mendicant, scaffold, pinnacle, excommunicate, disreputable, conscription, gargoyle, plaintively, commiseration, sniveller, contemptuous, presumptuous, remorselessly, lout, gambled, blandness, carnage, variance, penance, skulk, sneer, fealty, prattle, grapple, dire

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