1. “Charles” Author: Shirley Jackson Presentation Created By: Jennifer Seiger

2. Vocabulary Haggard Swaggering Insolently Simultaneously Incredulous Elaborately Cynically Please Define and Write a Sentence for Each Vocabulary Word.

3. Word Origins The Latin root “-cred” means “believe.” Based on that definition, what does the vocabulary word incredulously mean? What does incredible mean? What does credibility mean? What other words have the Latin root “-cred?”

5. Surprising, Amusing, or Interesting Contradictions.

6. Examples of Irony in “Charles”

7. Laurie’s mom thinks that Charles’s mom would be “haggard” looking.

9. Reading Strategy- Making Predictions Shirley Jackson Provided the reader with many clues that Laurie was actually Charles. Please locate 3 clues from the passage, and fill them in below… 1st clue= 2nd clue= 3rd clue=