Name: ______________________

Context Clues Activity

Round #1
Word: ___________________________
Sentence: _____________________________________________________________________
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Explain why you think this word fits in this sentence: __________________________________
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Round #2
Sentence: _____________________________________________________________________
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Underlined Word: ____________________________
Definition: ____________________________________________________________________
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Explain why you think this definition belongs with this word: ____________________________
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Individual Work
DIRECTIONS:
1) Read the following passages from The Crucible.
2) Using context clues, create a simple definition for the bolded and underlined words. This
definition can be as simple as writing down synonyms of the bolded and underlined word.
3) Write a short justification for your definition. This may include references to other words in
the passage, knowledge you already have about the word, and/or anything you know about
the characters in the passage. Just make sure your justification provides an explanation of
what led you to believe in your definition.
1. Marry Warren: Goody Osburnwill hang!
There is a shocked pause, while she sobs.
Proctor: Hang! He calls into her face. Hang, ysay?
Mary Warren, through her weeping: Aye.
Proctor: The Deputy Governor will permit it?
Mary Warren: He sentenced her. He must. To ameliorate it: But not Sarah good. For Sarah
Good confessed, ysee.
Definition: _________________________________________________________________
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Justification: ________________________________________________________________
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2. Mary Warren: Aye, but then Judge Hawthorne say, Recite for use your
commandments!leaning avidly toward themand of all the ten she could not say a single
one. She never knew no commandments, and they had her in a flat lie!
Proctor: And so condemned her?
Definition: _________________________________________________________________
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Justification: ________________________________________________________________
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