Bud, Not Buddy - PowerPoint Presentation

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Bud, Not BuddyChapters 1-5

A John Newbery award Book IN 2000 Written by: Christopher Paul Curtis Slide2

The Great Depression:http://

www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-us/videos/the-great-depressionSlide3

Map of route

from flint,

Mi to grand rapids, mi

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Flint,+MI/Grand+Rapids,+MI/@42.8134297,-85.2296149,9z/data=!

3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x882378fba5977317:0xc1853a098e33686b!2m2!1d-83.6874562!2d43.0125274!1m5!1m1!1s0x88185460bb502815:0xa593aacb1bd3a8d0!2m2!1d-85.6680863!2d42.9633599Slide4

Blues Music from

The Great Depressionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUNu1L04ciMSlide5

Waterworks Willie:

1

Bud is called this by Thud because he cries so much after dinner.

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

Waterworks Willie becomes Bud’s nickname.

Synonym:Slide6

Dirty Deed:

2

the only white man in the band

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

The Thug heckles

Dirty Deed

because he is the only white man in the band, but Deed comes back with wit and confidence

.

Synonym:Slide7

Grand Calloway Station:

3

the Calloway’s home

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

Back at the

Grand Calloway Station

, a.k.a. Calloway's house, Bud shows Calloway the rocks and Calloway goes

bonkers

because he thinks Bud stole them.

Synonym:Slide8

Rules and Things for Having a

Funner Life and Making a Better Liar out of Yourself:

4

the list of rules Bud makes for himself to help him get through and understand tough or unexpected situations

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

Shocked, Bud remembers

his,

number 39: the older you get, the less you cry… which makes Bud think that whatever is making Calloway cry had to be a tragedy..Slide9

saxaphone

:

5a

woodwind musical

instrument invented in 1840,usually

made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

... Thomas and he told Mr. C take my seat because this kid looks like he could be a pretty good

sax

player. Slide10

crumble

:

6

marked

by suitability or rightness or

appropriateness

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Right when I got near the kitchen door I could hear Herman E. Calloway saying, “. . . so that’s how that cookie’s going to

crumble

.”

Synonym: fall apartSlide11

No number 7 this week….only 29 words.Slide12

pulse:

8

rate at which the heart beats;

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

I had to check your pulse to make sure you were still alive!

Synonym:Slide13

classy:

9

e

legant and fashionable

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

French always makes things sound a lot classier.

Synonym:Slide14

ruin:

10

to destroy or damage completely

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

The back kitchen door opened, and I thought Herman E. Calloway was coming back to ruin everybody’s fun.

Synonym:Slide15

Day One

Directions for Assignment(Slide 6

is done for you as an example)

1. Read the vocabulary, definition, and sentence to yourself.

2. Highlight the vocabulary word in both the heading and in the context sentence any color that still shows up against the background.

3. Highlight the definition a different color that also shows up well against the background.

4

. Do this for all 30 words.

5. What you don’t get done becomes homework.

Do

NOT

email to me, yet. Not until after

“Day Three” assignment is completed.Slide16

require:

11

to have need of; to expect

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

Steady Eddie said, “I was just about to tell him some of the things Herman E. Calloway

requires

of anybody in his band.”

Synonym:Slide17

embouchure:

12

(This vocab work

will NOT be on the CLOZE activity.)

the

aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

"Once you’ve developed a little wind, and some tone and an

embouchure

we’ll move on to something a little more complicated.”

Synonym:Slide18

complicated

:

13

difficult to analyze

or understand

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

"Once you’ve developed a little wind, and some tone and an embouchure we’ll move on to something a little more

complicated

.”

Synonym:Slide19

compromise:

14

to expose or make liable to danger

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Eddie kept talking, “We do that ’cause the boy can play, Mr. C. won’t

compromise

on his music.”

Synonym:

Slide20

prodigy:

15

an unusually gifted or talented young person

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming out on this cold November night, this night that will live in history, this night that for the first time on any stage anywhere, you have listened to the smooth

saxophonical

musings of that

prodigy

of the reed, Mr. Sleepy

LaBone

!”

Synonym:

Slide21

drift

:

16

to move in an unhurried manner

Synonym:

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Steady held the note for a long time, then made the sax

drift

away from the rest of the storm of music.Slide22

fade

:

17

to go disappear gradually

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

Every once in a while Mr. Jimmy’s trumpet would come in and put his two cents’ worth in, then it would

fade

away.

Synonym:Slide23

offend: 18

to hurt the feelings of a person EXAMPLE SENTENCE:The Thug said to Dirty Deed, “I’d be offended, man, and I ain’t trying to say that you ain’t good on the eighty-eights, but you know the only reason you got this gig is ’cause you’re Dutch, you’re white and you don’t have the strongest personality in the world.”

Synonym:Slide24

unload:

19

take the load off or out (as in a container or vehicle)

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

We

unloaded

all of the instruments and waited for nighttime to come.

Synonym:Slide25

tidings:

20

information about recent or important events

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

He looked at me, shifted his pipe away from the talking side of his mouth and said, “Bud, I know you’re not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and I hate to be the bearer of bad

tidings

, but those are found all over the world."

Synonym:Slide26

Day

Two Directions for Assignment

(If you don’t get this done during class, it becomes homework. Turn it in to the purple tub.)

1.

Go to this website by highlighting, copying, & pasting this address in your address bar:

http://

www.vocabulary.com/lists/353629#view=notes

2

. Listen to the recording by clicking on the sound symbol.

3

.

Find the word you are working on, on the list and click on it. It will take you to a different page.

4.

Read the definition.

5. Open a Word Document. Save as “Vocabulary Definitions”

6. Number each word and type the vocab word, then

copy and past the word and the

context~definition

on a Word Document

.

7.

Do this for

words 6-30.

8. What you don’t get done becomes homework.

9.

Email me your paper, “Vocabulary Definitions.”Slide27

velvet

:

21

a silky, densely piled fabric with a smooth backing

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

As soon as I opened the top that smell of old spit and crumbling-up

velvet

and mildew came rushing out, it was still great.

Synonym:Slide28

rummage:

22

to search haphazardly

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

"Didn’t I tell you not to do any

rummaging

around in that room you been sleeping in?”

Synonym:Slide29

disrespectful:

23

exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

“You throw a lot of ‘sirs’ around but you’ve still got a real strong, real smart-mouthed,

disrespectful

streak in you, boy."

Synonym:Slide30

tragedy

24

drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior

force

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

When you got someone as old as Herman E. Calloway crying you better look around, ’cause you know you’re square in the middle of one of those boiling

tragedies

Synonyms:Slide31

hue:

25

the quality of color according to its wavelength

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Mr. Jimmy said, “Well, Grace, to be truthful I did think the boy’s face was a little

swole

up, but you know how dark it is in the Cabin, and, by God, there are some folks who just naturally have

lopsided

heads

.”

Synonym:Slide32

HUE: Most

sources of visible light contain energy over a band of wavelengths. Hue is the wavelength within the visible-light spectrum at which the energy output from a source is greatest.Slide33

overboard:

26

taking something to the extremes

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

He was determined that she was going to be the first Calloway to get schooling all the way through college so he thought he had to be strict on her, but he went

overboard

, Bud, simple as that

.

Synonym:Slide34

ornery:

27

having a difficult or contrary disposition

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

"That

ornery

old man upstairs is very, very hurt right now and I just can’t say where he’s going to land after this news gets through blowing him around.”

Synonyms:Slide35

blues

:

28

a state of low mood or sad feelings

(In Music,

a noun meaning a Genre of music)

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Herman E. Calloway was making everybody feel like they had the

blues

, it looked like Mr.

Jimmy’d

just wiped some tears from his eyes too.

Synonym:Slide36

seam

:

29

when two pieces come together in a line to form a joint

EXAMPLE

SENTENCE:

Eddie said, “It’s an alto, Bud, there’s a little rust in some of the

seams

, but that’s to be expected with a horn this old."

Synonym:Slide37

squawk

:

30

a

harsh, abrupt scream

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

The saxophone only squeaked,

squawked

and groaned, then sounded like it was making up words like

ahwronk

and

roozahga

and

baloopa

.

Synonym: Slide38

Day

three Directions for Assignment

(slide Number 6 is done for you as an example.)

(

If you don’t get this done during class,

it

becomes homework. Turn it in to the purple tub.)

1. Go to this website by highlighting, copying, & pasting this address in your address bar:

http://

www.vocabulary.com/lists/353625#view=notes

2

. Listen to the recording by clicking on the sound symbol.

3. Find the word you are working on, on the list and click on it. It will take you to a different page.

4

.

Read all the synonyms and choose one from the list

.

5

. Type the synonym for each vocabulary word on its corresponding slide.

6

.

Do this

for words 6-30.

7. What you don’t get done becomes homework.

8. Email your Power Point to me as soon as you get done.

It is late after tomorrow.Slide39

Day Four Directions for Assignment

7-up SentencesSlide40

Day five Directions for Assignment

(Turn in purple tray…You must get this done at school. You may not take it home to work on.)Cloze ActivitySlide41

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