WORD LIST


Use Context Clues You have been introduced to three vocabulary words from the essay on page 182. Those words are checked off in the Word List. In the first column, write the remaining seven words from the Word List. In the second column, predict a meaning for each word using context clues. Then look up each word in the Word Wisdom Dictionary and write its definition in the third column.


✔compliance forensic culprit


circumstantial


✔surveillance perpetrate prosecution


✔alibi


Vocabulary Word


1 forensic Your Prediction Answers will vary.


Dictionary Says


injurious acquit


used in legal actions or for legal arguments


2 culprit Answers will vary.


a person guilty of a fault or crime


3 circumstantial Answers will vary.


related to an event that is connected to or affects another event or condition


4 perpetrate Answers will vary. to commit 5 prosecution Answers will vary.


the government attorneys who try a person accused of a crime


6 injurious Answers will vary. harmful 7 acquit Answers will vary.


to free or clear from a legal accusation of wrongdoing


Use Context Clues


OBJECTIVES Students will C use context clues and their prior knowledge to find the meanings of new words.


C use the Word Wisdom Dictionary to check word meanings.


C continue to write in their Word Journals to reinforce their new word encounters.


GUIDE STUDENTS To review the concept of how some- thing is done, provide words such as edit, dance, and download, and have students supply phrases beginning with the word by that tell how these actions are performed. Remind stu- dents that they will write only the unchecked words from the Word List in the first column on page 185. Encourage students to use context clues from the essay on page 182 to predict the meanings of the words. They are to write their own defini- tions in column two before they check the dictionary.


PRACTICE Law and Order Part 1 185


Have students complete page 185 independently. When they are fin- ished, allow volunteers to share their own definitions before discussing the dictionary definitions for each word. Discuss the similarities and differ- ences between students’ definitions and the dictionary’s definitions.


Word Journal Five W’s Organizers


Suggest that students use their Word Journals to create Who, What, When, Where, and Why organizers for words such as sur- veillance, prosecution, and alibi. Assure them that some words lend themselves better than others to this format and that it is fine to leave a category blank if no words fit into it. Ask pairs or small groups to share their completed organizers and develop them further.


Unit 9 Law and Order Part 1 T185


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