Excerpt from "Flipped"

Wendelin Van Draanen's excerpt from the novel "Flipped" develops two different first-person points of view on the same incidents.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 6 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Imperfect Me, My Superpowers, Flipped, The Jacket, Kira-Kira, Thank You, M'am, Pandora and the Whispering Box, Eleven, The Treasure of Lemon Brown, The Fun They Had
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  1. strategic
    highly important to or an integral part of a plan of action
    And since we're now about done with the eighth grade, that, my friend, makes more than half a decade of strategic avoidance and social discomfort.
  2. wedge
    put, fix, force, or implant
    She barged and shoved and wedged her way into my life.
  3. catapult
    shoot forth or launch
    "Hey!" he says as she's catapulting herself on board.
  4. implication
    a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
    I didn't like the implication.
  5. acute
    demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
    This was the beginning of my soon-to-become-acute awareness that the girl cannot take a hint.
  6. tangle
    twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
    I was making this big windmill motion to break away from her, but somehow on the downswing my hand wound up tangling into hers.
  7. fiery
    characterized by intense emotion
    My mom's grinning, looking at our hands and my fiery red face.
  8. sophisticated
    having worldly knowledge and refinement
    Not a very sophisticated ditch, but hey, I was only seven.
  9. concept
    an abstract or general idea inferred from specific instances
    She's got no concept of personal space.
  10. anticipation
    expecting with confidence of fulfillment
    Two days before the second grade is when it started, although the anticipation began weeks before--ever since my mother had told me that there was a family with a boy my age moving into the new house right across the street.
  11. tolerate
    allow without opposing or prohibiting
    And the danger of being home alone with her was that she'd recruit me to help her wash or dust or vacuum, and she wouldn't tolerate the dribbling of a soccer ball around the house as I moved from chore to chore.
  12. overwhelm
    overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
    The scent of a ball must overwhelm a dog, though, because Champ would eventually try to chomp it, then lose the ball to me.
  13. adjust
    adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
    "They'll want some time to adjust."
  14. preoccupied
    having excessive or compulsive concern with something
    And the minute I was sure she was good and preoccupied, I tugged on her sleeve and asked, "Now?"
  15. civilized
    marked by refinement in taste and manners
    I was too excited not to charge across the street, but I did try very hard to be civilized once I got to the moving van.
  16. collapse
    break down due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
    He was going to keep on moving boxes around until he collapsed, and by then Bryce might be dead.
  17. tragedy
    an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
    The tragedy of it catapulted me into the moving van.
  18. exhausted
    depleted of energy, force, or strength
    When I got to his side to help him shove a box forward, the poor boy was so exhausted that he just moved aside and let me take over.
  19. invisible
    impossible or nearly impossible to see
    They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.
  20. fierce
    marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
    I shouldn't have, though, because she wiggled the bathroom doorknob and started teasing Bryce something fierce.
Created on Tue Aug 12 14:48:56 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Aug 13 09:39:08 EDT 2014)

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