Vocab Lesson Plan

I wrote my lesson plan out before completing the readings for this week and suggested doing a discussion-based lesson where the students work in groups to find the meanings of different words used in the text that are unfamiliar to the students by discussing how the word is used and looking at the text around the word. I would then have a whole-class discussion about why the author might use those kinds of words and what kind of tone/feeling he sets in the reader by using that type of language. Looking back on the readings I really like the ideas of vocabulary field trips, and word sorts, but I feel that the vocabulary difficulty of this book lies in the words that are "southern" or written the way they are spoken instead of the way they would be spelled in gramatically correct English.