"A Day's Work," Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

In these scenes from the novel by Mark Twain, Tom is sad that he is given a chore on a beautiful Saturday morning. But he talks his friends into doing it for him. Work on this list to get some tips on how he manages that.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Made You Laugh, Brothers, Pet Peeves, Underfunded Schools Forced to Cut, The Open Window, A Day's Work, They Have Yarns, Mooses, Is Traffic Jam Delectable?, The Power of Pets, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Fear Busters

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Practice An adaptive activity where students answer a few questions about each word in this list. If a student struggles with a word, we follow up with additional questions.Quiz Quiz your students on this list. Easily customize your quiz by choosing specific words, question-types, and meanings to include.Spelling Bee Students are required to spell every word on the list. If they get a word wrong, we follow up until they learn the spelling.Vocabulary Jam Students join teams and compete in real time to see which team can answer the most questions correctly.

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