Glossary- accident
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When something happens by mistake
- ambling
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to walk slowly and casually
- ancestor
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Someone who is part of your family from a long time ago.
For example, your great grandfather is your ancestor.
- ancestors
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Someone who is part of your family from a long time ago.
Example, your great grandfather and great grandmother are your ancestors.
- dingy
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Not nice
- Dracula
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A vampire from an old book and movie.
- fascination
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To be very curious or interested in something
- generations
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If something has been part of your family for generations it means it has been there for years and years.
Example 1: My grandparents are part of an older generation that me.
Example 2: This plate has been in our family for generations, since my great great grandmother was alive!
- healed
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To fix or make better
- main street
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The street that most people use or where most of the stores or restaurants that you go to are located.
- Maycomb Tribune
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The name of the newspaper in Maycomb, Alabama
- Mississippi
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A state in the United States
- Montgomery, Alabama
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Montgomery is a city in the state of Alabama
- Narrator:
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The person who tells a story, it is told from their point of view and perspective
- peeped
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To look into something sneakily or secretly
- porch.
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An outdoor space that people sit on outside of their houses
- repeatedly,
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Over and over again
- sagging
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To dip down in the middle, to droop
- scrapbook
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A handmade book where you cut out pictures of important events or things you want to remember and glue them together.
- Setting:
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Where and when the story takes place
- shingles
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What makes up a roof
- slight
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small
- southerners
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People from the southern United States
- sprinted
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To run as fast as you can
- stingy
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Someone who does not like to spend money.
- teased
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to make fun of
- tired, old town
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a town that seems to be stuck in the past. The people do not move very fast, it is small and quiet.
- town square
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The middle of town where people might meet
