5D+Tuck+Chapter+17

=__Sentences to help with understanding:__ =

2. Through the __dewy__ weeds below the window, a toad hopped suddenly into view and Winnie peered at it eagerly. 3. Then she heard a stop on the __loft__ stairs and thought, "Jesse!" 4. A big brown night moth fluttered out from under the __oar blades__ propped beside her on the seat, and wobbled off toward nowhere through the fragrant air. 5. Winnie caught just a glimpse of it as it __scissored__ away from shore. 6. __The locks grated__ as the oars dipped and swung, but Miles was skillful. 7. ...indeed his shoulders, under his __threadbare__ shirt, were broad and muscled. 8. Winnie __clutched__ her pole, sitting sidewise in the stern, and watched the baited hook sink slowly down. 9. Winnie thought about this __peril__ to the frogs, and sighed. 10. Winnie squinted at her fishing line and tried to picture a __teeming__ world. 11. The sky was blue and hard now, the last of the mist __dissolved__, and the sun, stepping higher above the trees, was hot on Winnie's back. 12. It would be another __searing__ day. 13. It was warm and very dry, like a __blotter__, but near its center was a single drop of water. 14. Miles started to protest, and then, looking at her face, he picked up the trout and gently worked the __barbed__ hook free.**
 * 1.** **Outside, in the ring of trees around the pond, the birds were celebrating, giving the new day __a brass band's worth of greeting__.

__Question #2:__ Why didn't Miles have his family drink from the spring? What would you have done if you were in his shoes?
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