Directions: Reread chapter 1 in The Lightning Thief, and answer the questions below. Use the text to answer these questions about how Rick Riordan develops the plot.
Question 1
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Question 2
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Question 3
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Question 4
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How did you determine the answers to the chapter 1 questions? Explain what strategies you used to answer these selected response questions.
Question 5
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Question 6
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Question 7
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Part 3: Explain your thinking to question 6.
Which line from the chapter best illustrates how Percy feels about himself?
"Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways."
"From her first day, Mrs. Dodds loved Nancy Bobofit and figured I was devil spawn."
"We thoughts that maybe if we (sat away from the others), everybody wouldn't know we were from that school-the school for loser freaks who couldn't make it elsewhere."
"You might be one of us. And one you know that, it's only a matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you."
Which line from the chapter best illustrates the relationship between Percy and Mr. Brunner?
“Mr. Brunner was this middle-aged guy in a motorized wheelchair. He had thinning hair and a scruffy beard and a frayed tweed jacket, which always smelled like coffee.”
"Mr. Brunner] didn’t expect me to be as good; he expected me to be better.”
“[Mr. Brunner] was the only teacher whose class didn’t put me to sleep.”
“It was kind of cool on tournament day, when [Mr. Brunner] dressed up in a suit of Roman armor and shouted: ‘What ho!” and challenged us, sword-point against chalk, to run to the board and name every Greek and Roman person who had ever lived . . .”
Which of the following is not a key moment from the chapter?
Mr. Brunner explains that knowing Greek and Roman history would be “vitally important” to Percy’s life.
Nancy Bobofit bullies Grover, throwing wads of sandwich at his head.
Mrs. Dodds transforms into “a shriveled hag with bat wings and claws”; Percy fights her with a sword given to him by Mr. Brunner.
Percy describes all of the ways he has gotten expelled from several previous schools.
Part 1: Which word best defines the word vaporized in this excerpt from chapter 1 of The Lightning Thief?
“Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan. She exploded into yellow powder, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech and a chill of evil in the air, as if those two glowing red eyes were still watching me” (13).
destroyed
changed
frozen
melted
Part 2: What strategy did you use to determine your answer?
Background knowledge (I already knew something about this word.)
Context (I looked at the whole sentence.)
Similar words (I know other words with the same meaning.)
Parts of the word (I know smaller words within this word.)