Scour, Helter-Skelter, Loll Week 9 - Cleaning Insights & Home Descriptions
In this informative content, the concept of scouring for cleanliness and thorough search is explored alongside vivid descriptions of cleanliness in Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting. Discover the dual meanings of scouring, helter-skelter arrangements, and more. Engage in activities like visualizing a disorganized setting. Dive into the essence of home tidiness and semantics with this engaging content.
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Scour, Helter-skelter, Loll Week 9
Natalie Babbitt describes the Winnie s life at home: Under the pitiless double assaults of her mother and grandmother, the cottage where she lived was always squeaking clean, mopped and swept and scoured into limp submission. Excerpt from Tuck Everlasting, page 50
Scour: Clean something thoroughly by rubbing it with rough material. The cottage was scrubbed clean not a speck of dirt anywhere.
Things You Might Scour
What is something you might scour? Why might it need to be scoured? SAY: I scoured because
What did you use to scour the ? SAY: I used --- to scour the
SCOUR CAN ALSO MEAN, SEARCH AN AREA CAREFULLY TO FIND SOMETHING.
When have you scoured your house, your room, or another place to look for something? SAY: I scoured because Be ready to share you partner s thinking!
Natalie Babbitt describes the Tucks house: The parlor came next, where the furniture, loose and sloping with age, was set about helter-skelter. Excerpt from Tuck Everlasting, page 51
Helter-Skelter: lying about in a disorganized, confusing way. In the Tucks house: The sofa was in the middle of the room The table was off to one side Chairs were placed aimlessly around the room
Close your eyes and imagine: You walk into your friend s bedroom and notice that things are helter-skelter. What is helter-skelter in your friend s room? What does it look like? SAY: _____ are helter-skelter in the room because
Close your eyes and imagine: After a busy day, Mr. Umland s classroom has been left with everything helter-skelter. What is helter-skelter in Mr. Umland s class? What does it look like? SAY: _____ are helter-skelter in the room because
Natalie Babbitt describes the Tucks furniture in their house: An ancient green plush sofa lolled alone in the center, like yet another mossy, fallen log facing a soot-streaked fireplace still deep in last winter s ashes . Excerpt from Tuck Everlasting, page 51
The word loll describes how a person or thing sits or stands in a relaxed or lazy way. What might it look like to loll? Act it out.
What did you see when your partner lolled? SAY: When ___ lolled, he/she
Where at home do you like to loll? SAY: At home, I like to loll .
