Vocabulary Death Lights in the Tower

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Vocabulary Practice: Death Lights in the Tower

A. Are they positive, negative, or neutral ideas? Write each vocabulary word in the appropriate box for you.

Positive words Neutral words Negative words

B. Find the opposite of each word below in the vocabulary list.

innocent

ice

shack

life

Vocabulary Practice: Death Lights in the Tower

C. With a classmate, write a dialogue using some of the words in your vocabulary list. The conversation can be funny or crazy. Be creative. After writing the conversation, read it out loud for your class.

Friend 1 --_______________________________________________________________________________

Friend 2 -- ______________________________________________________________________________

Friend 1 --_______________________________________________________________________________

Friend 2 --_______________________________________________________________________________

Friend 1 --_______________________________________________________________________________

D. Guess what happens in the story we are about to read. Use nouns and verbs from the story Death Lights in the Tower. Write your answers in the boxes below. (30 pts)

Who? What? When? Where? Why? How does it end?

The characters are _________, _________, and _________.

In this story, first ______________________________________. Next ________ ______________________________________.Then ________ ______________________________________.

The story takes place _____________________________________________________________________________.

The story takes place _____________________________________________________________________________.

____________________________________________________ happens because _____________________________________________________________________________.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.