VIP Class Notes (Li)

“Ms LaGrange is Strange” Chapters 1-3

Vocabulary

lunch lady – a woman who serves lunch in school

tater tots – baby potatoes

apron – a piece of clothing you wear over your clothes when you cook or clean

stomp – to walk with heavy steps, usually because you are angry

ex. The lunch lady stomped out of the canteen in anger.

ex. The actress stomped off the stage because everyone laughed at her.

Where’s the setting? Where does this story take place?

brown-nose/v – to try very hard to please another person (in a way that others find unpleasant)

ex. AJ complains whenever Andrea brown-noses the teachers.

ex. She’s a little brown-noser who gets on everyone’s bad side.

Pronunciation

asked – ask-d

vegetables – veggie-tables (fast)

live – laif – (noun)

live – liv (adverb/adj)

elementary – eh-lee-men-tree