A Christmas Carol Meaningful Sentences

Use ten of the twenty vocabulary words from A Christmas Carol to write meaningful sentences. Sentences that do not conform to the formula will not receive credit, nor will sentences with misspelled vocabulary. (Due 12/9/2010)

Remember:

• a meaningful sentence is made up of two independent sentences combined with a semicolon (;)


• the first sentence includes a vocabulary word


• the second sentence contains the definition of that vocabulary word


• the first word of the second sentence is not capitalized


• you should underline the vocabulary word and its definition

For instance, if the vocabulary word was:

Humbug (n): something worthless or ridiculous; a person or thing with no sense

a meaningful sentence would be:

Ebenezer Scrooge thought Christmas was a humbug; he couldn't understand how anyone could value such a nonsensical thing.