(6th Grade) The City of Ember Chps. 1-5

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10 questions
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When was "The City of Ember" published?

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What is happening in the scene above, and where is this scene located in the book? What is relevant about this scene to the first few chapters of "The City of Ember"?

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Draw what YOU think the City of Ember looks like.

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What jobs are Lena and Doon given on Assignment Day?

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It has been 250 years since "The Builders" intended for the people of Ember to leave the city and return to the outside world

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What do we find out has happened to Lena and Poppy's parents?

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Look up and define at least TWO of these words from "The City of Ember" and use them in a descriptive paragraph about the City: resonant (p. 29), enmeshed (p. 55), moldering (p. 57), pungent (p. 59), chortled (p.92).

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Read this article (https://theconversation.com/are-we-living-in-a-dystopia-136908) and write a short paragraph analyzing the important points in ONE of the article's sections and how that point might relate to "The City of Ember".

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What are TWO of the major literary juxapositions that we can see so far in our reading?

"For the ________ of all __________"
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Complete the quote above: