Jose! Born to Dance

Vocabulary

Stubborn adjective

If you are acting stubborn, you are determined to do things your way. You are not willing to change what you are doing or how you are acting.

Stubborn This girl is being

stubborn. She does not want to do what her mother asked her to do.

Stubborn Mules are

considered very stubborn animals. If they don’t want to move, they won’t.

Sometimes a stubborn person is described as being as stubborn as a mule.

Stubborn Have you ever been

stubborn? Or do you know someone who is?

Turn and tell your partner.

Start by saying: “One time that I was stubborn…” or “My____ is very stubborn when…”

Hauling verb

When you are hauling something, you are carrying or moving something.

Hauling In Nebraska we

often see trucks hauling hay to feed cattle.

Hauling In some countries

people have to haul wood long distances to use for making fire.

Hauling What are some things

you have seen being hauled?

See if you and your partner can think of 3 other things that can be hauled.

Be ready to share your ideas with the class.

Hauling Haul and hall are

homonyms. They sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things.

Border noun

A border is a boundary or an edge.

Border There is a fence on

the border between the United States and Mexico.

Border The Missouri River

forms the border Nebraska and Iowa.

Mournful adjective

Something that is mournful is sad.

Mournful Sometimes songs

in a show are mournful. They bring tears to the audience’s eyes.

Mournful When someone is

feeling mournful, it helps to have a friend comfort them.

Mournful What is something

that might make you feel mournful?

Turn and tell your partner.

Start by saying: _____ would make me feel mournful.

Towered past tense verb

Use this sentence to figure out what the word towered means.

The man on the stilts towered over the children.

Think about the base word of towered. What does it mean?

Can you figure out what towered means?

Towered Towered means

stood over or taller than others.

When I went to Chicago, the skyscrapers towered above us.

Towered The Redwood trees

tower above everything else in the forest.

Towered What are some

other things that tower over people?

See if you and your partner can think of 3 more things.

Be ready to share with the class.

Using context clues An actor is always nervous at his debut,

or first performance.

What does debut mean?

What clue in the sentence helped you?

Debut means the first performance in public.

Debut noun

Taylor Swift made her singing debut in 2006. She was popular immediately.

Debut Many things can

debut. New t.v. shows typically debut in the fall.

The first time an athlete plays is his debut.

Toured past tense verb

Justin Bieber toured, or traveled, around the country this summer.

What does toured mean?

Toured means traveled.

Toured Popular singers

toured during the summer to put on concerts for their fans.

Toured When we went to

England, we toured many castles.

Toured Where is a place

you would like to tour?

Turn and talk to your partner.

Start by saying: “I would like to tour…”

Discouraged adjective

Some musicians become discouraged, or disappointed, after a poor performance.

What does discouraged mean?

It means feeling disappointed or hopeless.

Discouraged The girl was

discouraged when she couldn’t figure out the problem on the board.

Discouraged She is

discouraged because she doesn’t know how she will ever get all her work done.

Discouraged Discouraged can

also be a verb. It means trying to keep someone from doing something.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney want to discourage people from voting for their opponent.

Discouraged What is something

that makes you discouraged?

Turn and tell your partner.

Start by saying: “I feel discouraged when…”

Triumph noun

When someone has a triumph, they have had a success or have won something.

Triumph The team

celebrates their triumph over the other team at the end of the game.

Triumph He celebrates his

triumph by raising his arms and yelling.

Triumph noun Triumphant adjective

Triumphantly adverb This summer the

U.S. women’s gymnastics team were triumphant at the Olympics. It wasn’t until the last person competed that they knew they had a triumph. They wore their gold medals triumphantly for days afterwards.

Permission noun

The musician is allowed to play in the subway. She was given permission.

What does permission mean?What clue helped you figure it out?

Permission means you are allowed to do something.

Permission You should always

ask permission before petting someone’s dog.

Permission She is giving her

daughter permission to borrow her car.

Permission What is something you

have to ask permission to do at home or at school?

Turn and tell your partner.

Start by saying: “I have to ask permission to…”

Time to Review Match the word to its meaningTriumph stood abovePermission carryingDiscouraged 1st performanceToured sadDebut determinedMournful boundaryBorder traveledHauling discouragedStubborn successTowered allowed to