Pg 23-27 Ch 6 GWC
Chapter 6 - Vocabulary
Word, Sentence, Part-of-speech
biscuits - He made honey-baked ham, biscuits, and pudding. (noun C)
carvings – George made small wood carvings. (noun C)
hail – The rain changed into hail. (noun U)
invented – George invented his own recipes. (verb T)
meal – George learned how to make a fancy meal. (noun C)
mob – One summer, a mob of white people killed a black man. (noun C)
pudding – He made honey-baked ham, biscuits, and pudding. (noun U)
recipes - George invented his own recipes. (noun C)
simple – George knew how to make a simple meal. (adj.)
sin – The Bible says that hate is a sin. (noun C)
Study Notes
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Reading Activity 6: George Washington Carver (Chapter 6, pages 31-36)
Directions: Open your book to these pages and select the correct words for the blanks. You will
need to use your dictionary for some of these items.
(page 31)
(page 31)
George's brother did not stay in school long. He didn't like reading,
writing, and arithmetic. But he did like the people in Neosho, so he stayed
1. a teacher
____________ and went to work.
2. in Fort Scott
George still went to school, even though he had learned everything the
teacher could teach him.
3. in Neosho
4. small pieces of ice
One day George heard that some neighbors were going to leave Neosho
falling like rain
and travel far away – to a place called Fort Scott in the state of Kansas. Fort
Scott was a bigger town than Neosho, and there was probably a free school
____________. George wished he could go. In a new school, there would be
a new teacher – maybe ____________ who knew about snow and
____________ and flowers.
(page 32)
(page 32)
The neighbors liked George. They told him he could go with
____________ if he could find a place to sit in ____________ loaded wagon.
Before George left, he and Jim went to see the Carvers. George was afraid
5. George and Jim
6. in Diamond Grove
he might never come back ____________ and he wanted to say good-by to
7. onto the wagon
Aunt Susan and Uncle Moses. The traveling picture-taker was
8. shapes
____________, and ___________ had their picture taken together.
9. the neighbor’s
Back in Neosho, George packed his bag. He put in the Bible Aunt Mariah
10. the neighbors
had given him, and the little blue spelling book from Aunt Susan. He put in
11. The wagon
the box with his rocks and wood ____________ – there were over five
12. to Diamond Grove
hundred little wooden shapes.
(where Moses and
It was hard to say good-bye to Aunt Mariah and Uncle Andy. For a
minute, George wished he wasn't going away ____________. But the wagon
was there, waiting for him. ____________ was loaded with pots and pans and
furniture.
Susan Carver
lived)
13. to Fort Scott,
Kansas
George climbed up ____________ and found a good place to sit. He
looked so small, more like a little brown bird than a thirteen-year-old boy.
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"1’11 write I-letters!" he called as the wagon started down the road.
(page 33)
(page 33)
Aunt Mariah and Uncle Andy and Jim waved ____________. They could
hardly keep from crying. Then they turned around and walked sadly home.
When he got to Fort Scott, George needed to find a job right away. But
what kind of job could he get? ____________ was not strong enough to do
14. George
15. good-bye to
George
outdoor
(page 34)
(page 34)
work. And people who needed someone for housework wanted girls. When
George tried to get a house job, he was turned down again and again.
Then he went to see a woman named Mrs. Payne. She had put an ad in the
newspaper for a girl, but she talked to George anyway.
"Can you cook?" ____________ asked him.
16. baked ham,
biscuits, and
pudding
17. Making simple
George thought of the simple meals he had made for Uncle Andy.
meals
____________ was all the cooking he knew how to do. But he needed this
18. Mrs. Payne
job, and all he said ____________ was, "Yes, ma'am."
19. small shapes of
"Good!" Mrs. Payne clapped her hands. "You can cook Mr. Payne's
dinner tonight. Let's see ... I think we'll have honey-baked ham and sweet
potatoes, ____________, ____________, and coffee."
George swallowed hard. He had never baked a ham before. He had never
made biscuits, or pudding. But if he told Mrs. Payne he couldn't make
____________, he would never get the job. Suddenly he had an idea.
"Yes, ma'am," he said. "But I want to make everything j-just the way you
I-like it. If you could just s-show me your way of f-fixing everything...”
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bread
20. soft creamy
dessert
21. to Mrs. Payne
(page 35)
(page 35)
"Of course," Mrs. Payne said. She showed him how much honey she put
on the ham. She showed him how she mixed the biscuits and the pudding. She
22. doing housework
never knew that she was really showing George how to cook everything. Mr.
for the Payne
Payne liked his dinner, and George got the job ____________.
family
Before long George learned to cook other ____________. Soon he was
23. George
____________ his own recipes. Mr. Payne thought ____________ was the
24. making
best cook in Fort Scott.
25. meals
In Fort Scott, there was no ____________ to take care of George. He had
26. nice
to ____________ himself. He had to earn money to buy his meals and to
27. person
rent a room to sleep in. He had to work so much of the time that he could not
28. take care of
go to school very often.
When he did go to school, George learned fast. He could go through one
grade twice as fast as other boys.
George was small and quiet, and most people were ____________ to him.
But some white people would pick on him or make fun of him when they saw
him in the street – just because he was black. The Carvers had given George a
good home. Other white people, too, had been good to him. But he
(page 36)
(page 36)
knew that many white people did not like any ____________.
29. black
George did not know why ____________. The Bible said it was wrong to
30. black people
hate another person – hate was a ____________. And a sin was a weakness in
31. forever
the eyes of God.
32. killed
Then one summer day, something terrible happened in Fort Scott. A
____________ of white men and women ____________ a black man, and
George saw everything they did. ____________ dragged the ____________
man out of the city jail, beat him, and killed him right on the street. Their
33. The angry white
people
34. the angry white
people’s
faces were full of hate. George never wanted to see ____________ faces
35. very angry group
again. The next day, he left Fort Scott ____________.
36. white people did
not like black
people
37. wrong thing
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Practicing vocabulary for Chapter 6
Directions: Tell the part-of-speech of each underlined item in these sentences from Chapter 6.
Then find the correct vocabulary item.
Vocabulary Items
Meanings
Example:
n(C) A George Washington Carver is
the most important character
in this biography.
A. person in a story
B. where something happens in a story
____ ____ The rain changed into hail.
1. bad, evil action or thought
____ ____ George made small wood
carvings.
2. directions for making something to eat
3. food at breakfast, lunch, or dinner
____ ____ George knew how to make a
simple meal.
____ ____ George learned how to make a
fancy meal.
4. large group of angry people
5. made new for the first time
6. not fancy; very basic
____ ____ He made honey-baked ham,
biscuits, and pudding.
____ ____ He made honey-baked ham,
biscuits, and pudding.
____ ____ George invented his own
recipes.
7. shapes cut from wood
8. small ice pieces in rain
9. soft food; a dessert (eaten after lunch or
dinner)
10. soft small bread
____ ____ George invented his own
recipes.
____ ____ The Bible says that hate is a
sin.
____ ____ One summer, a mob of white
people killed a black man.
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