Collection 1: A Place to Call Home

As you read Scott Bittle and Jonathan Rochkind's "A Place to Call Home: What Immigrants Say Now About Life in America," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 8's Collection 1: My Favorite Chaperone, Bonne Annee, A Place to Call Home, The Latehomecomer
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  1. overhaul
    make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
  2. implement
    apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design
  3. tumult
    a state of commotion and noise and confusion
  4. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  5. naturalize
    make into a citizen
  6. barrier
    any condition that makes it difficult to make progress
  7. emigrate
    leave one's country of residence for a new one
  8. consistent
    in agreement or reliable
  9. sentiment
    a personal belief or judgment
  10. propaganda
    information that is spread to promote some cause
  11. critical
    urgently needed; absolutely necessary
  12. telecommunication
    (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance
  13. adjust
    adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
  14. resist
    withstand the force of something
  15. perpetual
    continuing forever or indefinitely
Created on Thu Jun 26 22:16:21 EDT 2014 (updated Sat Jun 28 09:57:37 EDT 2014)

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