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New Vocab - I have no clue what a zither is.

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I like how the grandpa thought that the cops were General Meade's men.

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Surprising - The police officers are making a mess of the house.

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Important - The reporters are suspicious that there is something that the family left out.

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your grandpa in a nightgown... funny, but hard to unsee. Jamie Kelly, the protagonist of Dear Dumb Diary, once walked in on her grandma changing. She was never the same...

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Why would the police ransack the floor? Ransacking is what burglars and Attila the Hun's soldiers do when they break into your house.

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New vocab- commendably. I think it's good, but otherwise I have no clue.

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Important - maybe you should consider the guy's attacks before obliterating his window with a thrown shoe!

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The others beat a retreat, but not fast enough; grandfather grabbed Zither’s gun from its holster and let fly- this was really suprising since i didnt see it coming

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“No sign o’ nuttin’,” this is phrase caught my eye since its simple but also has a good vibe to it

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Its important to know that there was ghost in the house instead of thinking its criminals

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This surprised and confused me because for a simple burglary the police are going all out like the person who killed the president was there

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last paragraph lines 1-2, I love this because he was screaming and holding the police man's gun and yelling at them the night before

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the way that they are talking, This is important because it is the way that they are talking if they are talking like this it is kind of a western accent, and this would tell the setting

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Vocab, new word/unknown. I don't know what a zither is but from what the paragraph says i think it could be something for a guinea pig

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I love how they used nuthin' instead of nothing

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When they thought there was burglars in the house

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I think I have heard this but don't know the meaning

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What was surprising to me is when the mother broke the window

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when Roy won the pool game

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Zither---Charles

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When they thought crimanals were in the house

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Why would he need to drink that much coffee, he was so energized the night before

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Zither

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 “Of all things!” said mother. “He was such a nice-looking young man.” 

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 “Of all things!” said mother. “He was such a nice-looking young man.” 

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Very funny! I love it!

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Grandfather shot him,” I said. “What for?” she demanded. I told her he was a deserter.

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Grandfather shot him,” I said. “What for?” she demanded. I told her he was a deserter.

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important- grandfather shot him

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I've heard this word, just don't know what it means

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A bad way and was subject to mild “attacks.” Most everybody we knew or lived near had some kind of attacks. I never knew that every house hold had some kind of attack.

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A bad way and was subject to mild “attacks.” Most everybody we knew or lived near had some kind of attacks. I never knew that every house hold had some kind of attack.

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grandfather shooting a patrolman
Shooting. Surprising!

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Reluctant

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 ''The others beat a retreat, but not fast enough; grandfather grabbed Zither’s gun from its holster and let fly.'' I did not expect that to happen at all.

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 ''The others beat a retreat, but not fast enough; grandfather grabbed Zither’s gun from its holster and let fly.'' I did not expect that to happen at all.

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After a long minute, I slowly opened it again. There was nothing there. There was no sound. None of us ever heard the ghost again.
Important to knowing it IS a ghost

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Downstairs, we could hear the tromping of the other police. I like this paragraph because it's very descriptive!

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Downstairs, we could hear the tromping of the other police. I like this paragraph because it's very descriptive!

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“Awp,” he said, in the low, hopeless tone of a despondent beagle
This I love because it is funny :)

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 “All ya windows and doors was locked on the inside tight as a tick.” I felt spooked out when I read that paragraph!

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 “All ya windows and doors was locked on the inside tight as a tick.” I felt spooked out when I read that paragraph!

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Grandfather was fresh as a daisy and full of jokes at breakfast next morning

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What was all that running around downstairs?” said mother. So she had heard the steps, too!
Important that she knows there is something downstairs

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Back, ye cowardly dogs!” roared grandfather

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hullabaloo, thinking it means a basket of or a bunch of, something along those lines.

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When Mrs. Bodwell said " We'll sell the house and go back to Peoria" I thought it was really surprising how just a small accident made her thinking of moving.

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She flung up a window of her bedroom which faced the bedroom windows of the house of a neighbor, picked up a shoe, and whammed it through a pane of glass across the narrow space that separated the two houses.

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When the boy says " It's an old zither our guinea pig used to sleep on." I thought it was really funny how he added a piece of extra information.

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“We’ll sell the house and go back to Peoria,” it is surprising that they want to sell the house for something that they aren't even sure of.

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Advent

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Their lights played all over the living-room and crisscrossed nervously in the dining-room, stabbed into hallways, shot up the front stairs and finally up the back. They caught me standing in my towel at the top. A heavy policeman bounded up the steps.

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"because the thrill of heaving a shoe through a window glass had enormously taken her fancy. " I was surprised because that their mother found pleasure in throwing a shoe in a window that is not even hers.

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One of the most important parts was when they called the police. This is important because it adds a lot to the plot of the story.

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When the officer says “Who are you?” he demanded. “I live here,” I said. “Well, whattsa matta, ya hot?” he asked. It was, as a matter of fact, cold; I went to my room and pulled on some trousers.It was really funny.

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"Grandfather had evidently jumped to the conclusion that the police were deserters from Meade’s army, trying to hide away in his attic." I like this because I think that it is funny how the grandfather had jumped to that conclusion so quickly.

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Something important was the date November 17, 1915 because that is part of the setting.

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"It was now about two o'clock of a moonless night; clouds hung black and low" I think this is important because this is a time given so we can get a sense of when this is happening.

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I think Commedably means deserving praise

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Rending - To split something in two

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Ria. A Quick-cadenced means a rhythmic sequence 

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Ria. A Quick-cadenced means a rhythmic sequence 

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Mrs. H - I think it is important that...

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Mrs. H - I think it is important that...

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Mrs. H - hullabaloo - I don't know what it means but it is sure fun to say.

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Mrs. H - hullabaloo - I don't know what it means but it is sure fun to say.