7th Grade Recommended Reading List: "Thank You, M'am"

Langston Hughes' short story "Thank You, M'am" explores how compassion can lead to change.

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. snatch
    grasp hastily or eagerly
    It was about eleven o'clock at night, and she was walking alone, when a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse.
  2. stoop
    bend one's back forward from the waist on down
    But she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse.
  3. frail
    physically weak
    He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans.
  4. bother
    cause inconvenience or discomfort to
    "Was I bothering you when I turned that corner?" asked the woman.
  5. contact
    the act of touching physically
    If you think that that contact is not going to last awhile, you got another thought coming.
  6. half nelson
    a wrestling hold in which the holder puts an arm under the opponent's arm and exerts pressure on the back of the neck
    Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked him around in front of her, put a half-nelson about his neck, and continued to drag him up the street.
  7. furnish
    provide with objects or articles that make a room usable
    When she got to her door, she dragged the boy inside, down a hall, and into a large kitchenette-furnished room at the rear of the house.
  8. suede
    leather with a napped surface
    "Well, you didn't have to snatch my pocketbook to get some suede shoes," said Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. "You could of asked me."
  9. pause
    a time during which something is temporarily stopped or delayed
    There was a long pause. A very long pause.
  10. frown
    look angry or sullen as if to signal disapproval
    Then he frowned, but not knowing he frowned.
  11. presentable
    fit to be seen
    You might run that comb through your hair so you will look presentable.
  12. mistrust
    regard with suspicion
    He did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted now.
  13. devilish
    showing the cunning or wickedness of an evil being
    And next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook nor nobody else's--because shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet.
  14. barren
    providing no shelter or sustenance
    The boy wanted to say something else other than "Thank you, ma'am" to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, but he couldn't do so as he turned at the barren stoop and looked back at the large woman in the door.
  15. manage
    be successful; achieve a goal
    He barely managed to say "Thank you" before she shut the door.
Created on Tue Aug 12 20:12:10 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Aug 13 09:39:52 EDT 2014)

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