04/21/2025

 Dear Parents,

Today in class we did the following:

□ 1. Vocabulary words 1 - 20 □ 2. Read Ten Mile Day □ 3. Homework: Vocabulary words 1 – 20 x 3, defs x 1, 5 sentences

1) country: the land of a person's birth, residence, or citizenship

2) interpret: to explain or tell the meaning of

3) imagine: to form a mental image of (something not present)

4) homeland: native land

5) immigrant: a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence

6) freedom: the quality or state of being free

7) religion: a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices

8) escape: to get free of; break away from

9) famine: an extreme scarcity of food

10) opportunities: a good chance for advancement or progress

11) foreman: a person in charge of a group of workers, a particular operation, or a section of a plant

12) accomplish: to bring to completion

13) foundation: an underlying base or support

14) bulldozer: a tractor-driven machine usually having a broad horizontal blade for moving earth

15) jackhammers: a tool that drills through rock by hitting it very hard and quickly  

16) lumber: to move ponderously

17) volunteers: a person who voluntarily undertakes or expresses a willingness to undertake a service

18) flatcars: a railroad freight car without permanent raised sides, ends, or covering

19) whistle: a small wind instrument in which sound is produced by the forcible passage of breath through a slit in a short tube; a shrill, high sound

20) shrill: to utter or emit an acute piercing sound