A
Picture
Book of
Jesse
Owens
Unit 1_Lesson 5
Word Knowledge
Line 1: sharecroppers fireplace newspaper playground
Line 2: summer director seconds delivering
Line 3: hardly friendly happily hastily
Line 4: future junior prejudice afternoons community
S1: Willpower helps Olympic runners overcome their
opponents.
S2: Jesse went to college in Ohio and was on the track team
there, too.
S3: Jesse Owens ran gracefully and agilely.
S4: The community pool will open each afternoon.
Vocabulary
exhibition (ex-hi-bi-tion): a public display, as of
works of art. (pg. 86)
pneumonia (pneu-mo-nia) a serious lung disease. (pg. 77)
prejudice ( pre-ju-dice): unfounded fear or suspicion of
a particular group, race, or religion (pg. 84)
sharecroppers (share-crop-pers): tenant farmers who
pay rent by sharing the crops with the landlord. (pg. 76)
Spectacle (spec-ta-cle): a grand public performance or
display. (pg. 86)
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