Read Chapters 4-6, then do the following:
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and
Context Clues
Below are the sentences in which
the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.
Use any clues you can find in the
sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the
underlined words mean in the space provided.
1. The new year must begin with
tasty, fresh yams and not the shriveled and fibrous crop of the
previous year.
2. All cooking pots, calabashes,
and wooden bowls were thoroughly washed, especially the wooden mortar in which
yam was pounded.
3. The drums rose to a frenzy.
4. Old men nodded to the beat of
the drums and remembered the days when they wrestled to its
intoxicating rhythm.
5. Within a short time the two bouts were
over
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