Smoking in the Cellar

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Smoking in the Cellar

• What do you think about
• smoking cigarettes?

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• I swiped my grandmas cigarettes,
• I didnt dare to tell her,
• Then Lumpy, Tony, Will and me
• Snuck down into the cellar.

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• We slipped inside the storage room
• And bolted shut the latch.
• I gave us each a cigarette
• And Tony struck a match.

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• We lit them up together
• And boldly took a puff.
• We found out very quickly
• That one would be enough.

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• We coughed and wheezed and sputtered
• As we breathed in clouds of smoke,
• Will turned white, and Lumpy green,
• And Tony and I just choked.

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• I never want to smoke again
• cause smokings really dumb.
• Next time I feel like smoking,
• I think Ill just chew gum.
• By Jack Prelutsky

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• REVIEW QUESTIONS
• Name two good reasons not to smoke.
• Name 3 healthy things to do instead of smoking.
• Why does the boy in the poem say he never wants
  to smoke again?

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• REVIEW QUESTIONS
• What tense are the first four stanzas in?
• PAST
• The last stanza is in what tense?
• FUTURE
• What is the setting?
• CELLAR OR STORAGE ROOM
• How many characters are there?
• 4 LUMPY, TONY, WILL, AND ME

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Past Tense Verbs

• Sneak
• Swipe
• Give
• Strike
• Turn
• Wheeze
• Slip
• Bolt
• Take
• Light
• Cough
• choke

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Past Tense Verbs

• Sneak-snuck
• Swipe-swiped
• Give- gave
• Strike-struck
• Turn-turned
• Wheeze-wheezed
• Slip- slipped
• Bolt-bolted
• Take-took
• Light-lit
• Cough-coughed
• Choke-choked

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Pronouns

• He
• We
• I
• Us
• She
• Me
• my

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Proper Nouns

• I swiped my grandmas cigarettes,
• I didnt dare to tell her,
• Then Lumpy, Tony, Will and me
• Snuck down into the cellar.

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Article Adjectives

• We slipped inside the storage room
• And bolted shut the latch.
• I gave us each a cigarette
• And Tony struck a match.