8th grade mod 2 end of unit 3
Part A
Describe the meaning of bellow in the context of the sentence below. (L.8.4a)
“Cows separated from their mother will mope and bellow for days” (65)
What words or phrases helped you determine the meaning of bellow in this context? (L.8.4a)
Read the sentence below.
“The animals are, for the first time in their lives, confined to a pen” (66).
Using your knowledge of the affix con-, what does the phrase confined to mean? (L.8.4b)
In the sentence below, how do the words eat and from help us to better understand trough? (L.8.5b)
“They are ‘bunk broken’—taught to eat from a trough” (66).
Why did the author use the word gazed in this first sentence instead of using a synonym with a different connotation, such as looked? (L.8.5c)
“I went out to the pen and gazed over the sea of ninety black Angus cattle. Almost at once, steer number 534 moseyed over to the fence and made eye contact with me” (67).