5D+Tuck+Chapter+9

=__Sentences to help with understanding:__ =

2. The tops of her cheeks were bright pink with sunburn, her nose a vivid, comic red, but she had been rescued from a more serious __broiling__ by Mae, who had finally insisted that she wear the blue straw hat. 3. It came down far over her ears and gave her a clownish appearance, but the shade from its brim was so welcome that Winnie put __vanity__ aside and __dozed__ gratefully in Miles' strong arms... 4. The pastures, fields, and scrubby groves they crossed were __vigorous__ with bees... 5. But everything else was motionless, dry as a biscuit, on the brink of burning, hoarding final reservoirs of sap, trying to hold out till the rain returned, and Queen Anne's lace lay dusty on the surface of the meadows like foam on a painted sea. 6. Winnie __revived__, sniffing, and was able to ride the horse again, __perched__ behind Mae. 7. The horse followed, turning onto a rutted path lumpy with roots, and it was as if they had slipped in under a giant __colander__. 8. The late sun's brilliance could __penetrate__ only in scattered glimmers, and everything was silent and untouched... 9. The horse __picked his way carefully__. 10. Down the __embankment__ they swayed and there it was, a plain, __homely__ little house... 11. ...and the gentlest smile in the world __displaced__ the melancholy creases of his cheeks. 12. ...in spite of Mae's blue hat, which still __enveloped__ her head.**
 * 1.** **The August sun rolled up, hung at mid-heaven for a blinding hour, and at last wheeled westward before the journey was done.

=__Vocabulary__: vivid, vanity, revive, peer=

=__Question # 1:__ By this chapter, we have read a lot of dialogue involving the Tucks. Here are some examples of incorrect grammar that the Tucks have used in their conversations:= =//"It don't take 'em more'n a minute to pile into that pond."//= =//"How do, Winnie Foster."//= =//"We was like gypsies."//= =Explain why you think the Tucks talk like this and try to come up with reasons how this shows us more about their characters. This should be written as a complete paragraph.=

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