Excerpts from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

Who deserves to get a Golden Ticket? Roald Dahl answers this question in his novel that pits a poor but pleasant child against several rich and rude ones.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Fire and Ice, The Gift of the Magi, The Stolen Party, The Cask of Amontillado, A Poison Tree, Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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  1. draft
    a current of air
    In the summertime, this wasn't too bad, but in the winter, freezing cold drafts blew across the floor all night long, and it was awful.
  2. proper
    appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion
    There wasn't even enough money to buy proper food for them all.
  3. desperately
    with great urgency
    He desperately wanted something more filling and satisfying than cabbage and cabbage soup.
  4. bulge
    swell or protrude outwards
    Great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body
  5. monstrous
    abnormally large
    and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough with two small greedy curranty eyes peering out upon the world
  6. revolting
    highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
    "What a revolting woman," said Grandma Josephine.
  7. announce
    make known
    Suddenly, on the day before Charlie Bucket's birthday, the newspapers announced that the second Golden Ticket had been found.
  8. eager
    having or showing keen interest or intense desire
    Veruca's father, Mr. Salt, had eagerly explained to the newspapermen exactly how the ticket was found.
  9. joint
    a disreputable or shabby place of entertainment
    I'm in the peanut business, you see, and I've got about a hundred women working for me over at my joint, shelling peanuts for roasting and salting.
  10. vow
    promise
    Well, sir, I just hated to see my little girl feeling unhappy like that, so I vowed I would keep up the search until I'd got her what she wanted.
Created on Mon Sep 22 12:40:50 EDT 2014 (updated Mon Sep 22 13:28:34 EDT 2014)

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