The Teacher's Funeral

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The Teacher's Funeral_ A Comedy In Three Parts (Unabridged)

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Grade Level Equivalent: 6-8

Lexile Framework: 750

Reading Level: 5.6

		To be turned in upon completion
Section 1 Chapters 1-7 Kissing Summer Goodbye
southpaw	arthritis	larruped	nigh
red letter day	threshing machine	cockleburs	trough
countrified	calliope	cadaver	quagmire
J.W.	embers	defile	spinster
omen	oration	orthography	belfry
elocution	alacrity	mulligan	scheme
scythe	dustup	ashen	discommoded
pneumatic

Section 2 Chapters 8-13 The Jailhouse of School
consternation	rostrum	perdition	"trough of knowledge"
chit	flounced	asinine	cacophony
cowered	derision	restitution	expectorate
fathom	swill	Hoosier	mellifluous
menagerie	mulligan	diphtheria	preened
asphyxiate	ascend	fortuitously

Section 3

Chapters 14-17 The Fall of the Year

elocution

carcass

confounded

superintendent

acumen

searing

pizen

herpetology

Author Information

Richard Peck is the first children's writer to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal. The author of thirty novels, he has also won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in young-adult literature, the Newbery Medal (for A Year Down Yonder), a Newbery Honor (for A Long Way from Chicago), and numerous other awards and honors. His book, Fair Weather, was included on more than a dozen best-of-the-year lists. In addition to being a writer for young people, Richard Peck has also been an English teacher and a soldier stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. Mr. Peck lives in New York City.