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Novels → Terms → In-Depth, Catch Me Once, Catch Me Twice = Mid - October → Listening & Research, The Outsiders = January → Independent Novel Study 1, 2, 3 → In-Depth, Underground to Canada = May
Independent Novels Include: Group A → Lisa → Home Child
Other Novels: → Who is Francis Rain? → A Darker Magic → The Master Puppeteer
Catch Me Once, Catch Me Twice, by Janet McNaughton Chapters 1 – 6 1. Why was Ev’s grandmother angry? 2. What did Ev do after she hung up her coat? 3. Why was Ev waiting for the mail? 4. Where was her grandfather? 5. What did she like most about ”A Midsummer Night’s Dream”? 6. What was Ev afraid would happen to her mother? 7. Who was the boy Ev knew from her class? What was wrong with him? 8. Why did Peter come to the door? 9. What had he given her? Why? 10. Where did Peter escape to when the house was full of women? 11. What part of St. John’s did Peter live in? 12. What was the landmark above and behind Peter’s house? 13. What was his father’s trap skiff like? 14. What did she choose to wear when she got up? 15. What type of car did her grandfather have? How did she feel about the car? 16. What did she ask Ev’s opinion on? 17. What did Peter do that made Ev feel at home and homesick all at once? 18. What was Mr. Barrett himself like? 19. What did Ches teach Ev to do with the knife? 20. What were Ev and Peter going to do with Uncle Ches’s boat? 21. What did Millie look like? 22. Who came to the door for Millie? 23. Why was Millie somewhat afraid of Gerry? 24. What kinds of problems were some of the servicemen causing for store owners? 25. Why did her grandfather insist that she spend time with Peter?
Chapters 7 – 11 26. Why did Ev make so many of the toys from the wood? 27. What was Ches teaching Ev to do? 28. What did Peter give Ev for luck? 29. Why did Peter go to look for Ev? 30. What did she do to get away from him? 31. What did Ches say had happened to Ev out on the barrens? 32. What did Millie tell Ev while they were sitting at the table? 33. What were they doing to pass the time? 34. Where was he heading when he got out of bed? 35. What did Ev see as Millie left the house the next night? 36. What happened to Ev as she was about to go home? 37. What did Gerry do? 38. Who came to Ev’s aid? What did they do? 39. What were her thoughts about her father? 40. What happened that all the children had to go to the basement? 41. Why was Ev surprised when she introduced Peter to her grandmother? 42. What reason did Mrs. Bursey give Ev for her mother seeming to be back to her old self? 43. What did Ev tell Peter her feelings toward her father were? 44. What did Ev’s grandmother want to do that her mother was so much against? 45. What caused the smell? 46. Why did Millie say Ev’s father had saved her life?
Chapters 12 – 17 47. What did her mother give her when she came home from school? 48. What was Peter hoping Ev would tell him about their plans? 49. What did Ev want to do to try to bring her father back? 50. What did Millie tell Ev about Gerry? 51. What did Peter and Ev smell in the Tilley house? 52. Where did Peter and Ev go when two women came to visit his grandmother? 53. Why didn’t Ches try to talk Ev out of returning to the springhouse? 54. What reason did Ches give Peter for his advice to Ev? 55. What did Ches say Peter must do? 56. Why did Ev’s mother wake her up? 57. What was Ev thinking about on the way to school? 58. What was Peter thinking on his way to the streetcar? 59. What did her outburst remind her grandmother of? 60. What happened to Ev at the bottom of Signal Hill? 61. Why did Peter decide to go with Ev? 62. Who was waiting in the kitchen when she returned home? 63. What news did he have for her? 64. What name did Ev want the baby to have? Why? 65. What did her grandmother do that surprised her?
Prologue – Chapter 4 1. Who are the boys afraid of seeing? 2. What are Babyface and Beanpoles job in the group? 3. How many members in the gang? 4. What are “Prods”? 5. What is the name of the gang? 6. How did he get his hands out of the handcuffs? 7. What kind of car hit the boy? 8. How long was the flight delayed? 9. What was the name of the boy? 10. What is the name of the airport? 11. What was the name of the immigration officer? 12. What does “Tiocfaidh ar la” mean? 13. Where is the boys flight heading? 14. What did Declan call the guard? 15. What the guard do with Declan went for the door? 16. What did Declan have for breakfast? 17. What type of plane did they go on? 18. What did Declan do to try and escape off of the plane? 19. How many passengers were on the plane? 20. What was put in Declan's orange juice? 21. How long was the flight? 22. Who did Declan meet at the airport? 23. What did Declan think this man reminded him of? 24. What type of weather was it when they went outside? 25. What type of truck did they get into? 26. What did the man get from the glove? 27. Where were they headed? 28. What did Declan see flying in the sky? 29. Where did the ferry go to? 30. Which group of people usually got searched at 3AM? 31. What is kneecapping?
Chapters 5 – 11 32. What church does Matthew live close to? 33. What room did Declan choose? 34. Where did Declan go after he woke up? 35. What things did Declan say were typical to find in a “Catholic home”? 36. Where was Declan going on Monday? 37. What plans did Declan think about after church ended? 38. What did Declan take from the kitchen? 39. What animals did Declan think were watching over him? 40. Where did Declan stop the boat? 41. What did Declan wish he had taken with him? 42. What was the name of the ferry? 43. What was the name of the coast guard ship? 44. What name did Arthur call Declan? 45. What were the names of the two detectives questioning Declan? 46. What was the name of the teacher? 47. What did Lisa give to Declan? 48. How did Declan get past the ticket area? 49. Who spotted Declan on the plan and brought him to the immigration office? 50. What deal did Matthew make with Declan? 51. What was the proposal that Kate made to Declan? 52. Why is Miss Ritter living at the Doyle house? 53. What is Ana’s job with Miss Ritter? 54. Where did Declan’s mom die? 55. What oath did Matthew promise to Declan? 56. What was the name of the principal? 57. Who was considered to be the bully in the school? 58. Who was Declan’s lab partner? 59. What did Declan call the move which he did to Lyle? 60. How long was Declan suspended for? 61. What was the name of the book Declan was reading? 62. What did Declan call Thomas? 63. What condition does Thomas have? 64. What did Matthew say touched Thomas?
Chapters 14 – 25 65. What did Joe tell Declan that he needed to have to deal with Dybinski? 66. What were the names of the families that had their homes burned? 67. What bird was on the calendar for December? 68. In what month did Declan learn to relax and stop running? 69. What group did Declan want to join if he returned to Ireland? 70. Who won the wrestling match? 71. What was on Mairead’s t-shirt? 72. What type of rifle did Matthew have? 73. What was Declan and Matthew hunting? 74. What was in the tree that alarmed Matthew? 75. What are the colours of the Irish flag? 76. Where did Declan’s mom work in the past? 77. What did Ana, Thomas and Declan find the morning after the storm? 78. What did Declan discover about Kate while down at the beach? 79. What does Joe want to be when he gets older? 80. What was the name of the formula that Kate made using the seal? 81. What did Declan name the seal? 82. What was the name of the play? 83. Who played the piano for the rehearsal? 84. What did Ana want to be when she got older? 85. What did Ana wish could happen with Declan? 86. What movie did Ana want to go to? 87. Why did Joel phone the Doyle house? 88. What did Miss Ritter call Declan? 89. What was the name of the music teacher? 90. What did Matthew take off of the wall and hide in the kitchen drawer? 91. Why did Declan and Joe shake hands? 92. When did Matthew first meet Kate? 93. Where does Kate want Declan to go when he gets back to Ireland? 94. What did Matthew tell Declan that his father became after being locked up in a cell? 95. What happened with the truck? 96. What did they make on New Year’s Eve? 97. Who came to visit and talk to Declan before he was ready to leave? 98. What vehicle did they use to go to the airport? 99. Who was going to be waiting for him in Belfast? 100. What happened when the man beside Declan asked him if he was all right?
Essay Question Declan has to deal with the death of his family. How does he change from the beginning of the novel to the end?
PART ONE 1. What was the best type of food in the forest to eat? 2. Who was considered to be the most promising newborn? 3. What was the purpose of Tree Haven? 4. What were newborns taught to never do? 5. What was Shade's mom afraid of losing? 6. What were the names of the four elders? 7. What did Shade do while he was grounded? 8. What was inside the cave that was important to the bats? 9. Who is Nocturna? 10. What does Frieda believe the band on her arm is a sign of? 11. Who attacked the bat colony? What did they have? 12. Where did the owls get the fire? Where did they store it? 13. Why did the owls want to see the Silverwing colony? 14. Where did Frieda feel the Silverwing Colony had to go? 15. What was the greatest gift that Shade though he could bring the colony? 16. Where did Shade go to get away from the storm? 17. How long was Shade out at sea? 18. What type of bat did Shade meet? 19. Where was the roost located? 20. What did Marina have on her arm? 21. Why was Marina on the island alone? 22. What did Marina say they had to find to make the flight faster and easier? 23. What did Shade and Marina have a competition over? 24. What type of bats did Shade and Marina run into?
PART TWO 25. What type of family does Goth belong to? 26. How did Goth and Throbb figure away out of the cage? 27. What was at the end of the passage way? 28. What did Goth find to eat? 29. Who captured Shade and Marina? Why? 30. What type of animal was the Ambassador? 31. What was on the outside of the Cathedral? 32. Who is the Keeper of the Spire? 33. What special talent does the Keeper of the Spire have? 34. Who were the humans in a fight with? 35. What was the purpose of the bright star? 36. What did Zephyr tell Shade about his father? 37. Who killed the owl that attacked Shade? 38. What did Shade say Frieda would be able to do for Goth? 39. What would Goth do if he learned how to navigate from the stars? 40. How many bats did Goth say were in his community? 41. What was Throbb eating that alarmed Shade? 42. What was chasing after Throbb?
PART THREE 43. What were all over the tops of the trees? 44. What landmark did they have to find that was the color white? 45. Why did Goth want Shade's sound map? 46. What power did Penelope believe the bands have? 47. What did Scirocco say they would turn into? 48. What did a bat need in order to be transformed? 49. What was the important thing that Zephyr told Shade? 50. What were the wolf ears that they saw? 51. Where did Shade and Marina go that Goth couldn't enter? 52. What animals did Shade and Marina run into? 53. What was the name of the prince? 54. What is the prince's brothers name? 55. How did Shade and Marina escape the rat colony? 56. What did Shade first think happened to him when he woke up after being knocked out? 57. What important thing did Shade remember Zephyr told him? 58. Why did Shade want to go to the Jungle? 59. What did Shade see in the forest that he also saw in the cathedral? 60. How did Shade drug Goth and Throbb? 61. What was the difference between Shade's and Marina's fur? 62. What animal did Shade learn the skill of sending sound pictures from? 63. What type of Storm did they fly into? 64. How did Throbb die? 65. What did Goth say he was going to do when he got back to his homeland? 66. What was the last landmark that Shade was given? 67. What did Bathsheba believe was going to happen? 68. Where did Cassiel go when he left the group?
The Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars Chapters 1 - 51. What was Sara doing while she was lying on her bed? 2. What was she doing this? 3. What did she think about her feet? 4. What did Sara tell her brother, Charlie, about this summer? 5. What had Charlie made in the yard that morning? 6. What could Charlie tell by the tone of Sara’s voice? 7. What were Wanda and Aunt Willie arguing about? 8. What did Sara dislike about her aunt? 9. Why was Frank picking Wanda up on his scooter? 10. What did Wanda tell Sara about Aunt Willie? 11. What was the term Sara used for the first time while talking about Charlie? 12. What did Frank ask Aunt Willie to do? 13. Why did Aunt Willie suddenly get mad with Sara? 14. What did Frank say the scooter was like? 15. What was Charlie doing with Sara? 16. Why did she leave him sitting on the steps of Mary’s house?
Chapters 6 - 917. What did Charlie have that gave him great pleasure? 18. What did Mrs. Weiclk tell her friend about Charlie? 19. What did Wanda want Sara to tell Aunt Willie? 20. Where did Sara say the swans lived most of the time? 21. Why did Sara want to go home? 22. Why did she tell Charlie she never wanted to bring him anywhere? 23. Why did Sara say she didn’t like Frank? 24. What did she say about boys? 25. How did she explain her feelings to Wanda? 26. What had happened to Charlie? 27. Why couldn’t Charlie sleep? 28. What did he think he saw outside his bedroom window? 29. What was really out there? 30. What did Charlie do?
Chapters 10 - 1331. How did Charlie know that something was wrong? 32. What suddenly caused him to start running? 33. Why did he stop? 34. What was Charlie doing as he walked up the hill through the trees? 35. What did Sara think about her new haircut? 36. Who did Sara say she looked like? 37. What did Aunt Willie think when Sara said she couldn’t find Charlie? 38. Where did Sara think Charlie had gone? 39. What did the girls find at the lake? 40. What did Aunt Willie say when Sara said not to call the police yet? 41. What did Aunt Willie tell the police about Charlie? 42. What was her reason for not paying attention to Charlie last night? 43. What did she get? 44. Why did she say Sara was like Uncle Bert? 45. Why did Sara wet Gretchen with the water hose? 46. Why did Sara, Wanda, and Charlie live with their aunt? 47. What did Sara say when Aunt Willie was calling her father? 48. What did Aunt Willie say about losing her father?
Chapters 14 - 1849. Why didn’t Sara want Joe Melby to help find Charlie? 50. What did Joe tell Sara? 51. Why didn’t Sara answer him? 52. What did Mary Tell Sara about Joe Murphy? 53. Why hadn’t Mary told this to Sara before? 54. What did they hear on the radio? 55. What question did Mary ask Sara? 56. What did Sara say about waiting for help? 57. What did she tell Mary about Charlie? 58. Why didn’t she want to see Joe Melby? 59. What did Joe tell her about himself? 60. Why did Charlie become concerned about his watch? 61. What did he do after crying about his situation? 62. What did Sara think she heard when she called Charlie’s name? 63. What did she compare her trip up the hill to?
Chapters 19 - 2364. What could Sara see from the top of the hill? 65. What did Sara say about a true sadness? 66. What did she say about Charlie’s wailing? 67. What was one of the things that Charlie’s brain damage had caused? 68. What made Charlie feel safe and well? 69. Why did Charlie begin to cry out in a hoarse excited voice? 70. How did Sara feel as she ran towards Charlie? 71. What happened when Charlie saw Sara? 72. What did Joe give Charlie? 73. What did Sara see overhead as they walked across the pasture? 74. What did Aunt Willie say about Charlie? 75. What did Joe ask Sara? 76. How had Wanda heard the news of Charlie being lost? 77. What did Sara tell Wanda a person could be occassionally? 78. How did Sara see life after talking to her father?
ESSAY QUESTION Define Internal Conflict. Explain the internal conflict that Sara Godfrey goes through in this novel. How does the conflict resolve?
A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park Chapters 1 – 4 1. How did the well fed great each other? 2. What was the bag filled with? 3. What is a jiggeh? 4. What did Tree-ear tell the man? 5. What was Tree-ear called after? 6. How did Tree-ear’s parents die? 7. Why did Crane-man not like going to the river? 8. How many times did Min shape the clay until he was satisfied? 9. What did Ch’ulp’o become a master of? 10. What does leather-hard mean? 11. How long did it take Min to make the clay box? 12. How many days of work did Min day Tree-ear would have to do? 13. What work did he do on the first day? 14. What happened to his hand? 15. What did Crane-man take from his pouch to use on the wound? 16. What did Tree-ear have to do on Day 2? 17. What was the name of the potter that Tree-ear met on Day 4? 18. What did Tree-ear have to go and get on the tenth day? 19. What was so important about midday if you were an apprentice? 20. What did Min’s wife give to Tree-ear? 21. Why did Crane-man go to the beach? 22. Why did Tree-ear feel guilty? 23. What did Tree-ear give Min’s wife? 24. Who did Tree-ear almost hit with his bowl? 25. What did Tree-ear find interesting about the bowl at the end of the day? 26. What was the new skill that Tree-ear learned? 27. Why was wood ash used? 28. What was a crucial skill that Tree-Ear had? 29. What was the price of one of Min’s vases? 30. What was the dream of all potters? 31. What did Tree-ear always to before he left for the night?
Chapters 5 – 8 32. What is a slip? 33. What colors were usually avoided when picking clay? 34. What type of pottery Tree-ear like to make? 35. When did Tree-ear visit the fields to pick rice? 36. What did Crane-man make out of the straw? 37. Who usually visited to take a tithe from the people? 38. Where did Tree-ear and Crane-man move during the winter? 39. What did Min’s wife give Tree-ear? 40. What happened to Hyung-gu? 41. What did Kang make on the wine goblet? 42. What was the big news in Ch’ulp’o? 43. What was the big question that Tree-ear asked Crane-man? 44. How did Min want his display made? 45. What was Tree-ear’s favorite piece in Min’s collection? 46. What did retrieve at Min’s house? 47. What was the name of the emissary? 48. How long could a commission sometimes run? 49. What did Min want Tree-ear to go find? 50. What design did Min use? 51. How many vases did Min make? 52. What kept Crane-man from moving to the temple when he was younger? 53. Who was chosen for a commission? 54. What did the emissary have to tell Min? 55. Where did Min have to bring this piece? 56. What does Ajima mean? 57. How far away is the village of Songdo, according to Crane-man? 58. What did Tree-ear ask of Min? 59. Why did Min filled with grief and rage?
Chapters 9 – 13 60. What was the decree that the King made? 61. Who was chosen to make the straw container? 62. What else did Ajima ask of Crane-man? 63. How did they test the container? 64. What did Tree-ear make and give to Crane-man? 65. What did Tree-ear have in his waist pouch? 66. Where did Tree-ear rest in the forest? 67. What are two things that Crane-man said people never grow tired of watching? 68. What was the creature that appeared during the night? Fox 69. Where did Crane-man tell Tree-ear to stop on his journey? 70. What type of job did the villagers have? 71. What was different about the village of Puyo? 72. What caught Tree-ear’s eye as he walked through the stalls? 73. What is a toduk-nom? 74. What did the robbers do the vases? 75. What did Tree-ear do with the larger shard? 76. Where was the palace located? 77. What are Wasters? 78. Who was angry with Tree-ear when he was unable to show the pottery pieces? 79. What did Kim write on the paper? 80. How many pieces per year did Tree-ear say Min could make? 81. What news did Min have for Tree-ear? 82. Where did Tree-ear go the next morning? 83. Why did Min want Tree-ear to go get large logs? 84. What name did they want to call Tree-ear?
The Midwife's Apprentice, by Karen Cushman Chapters 1 - 4 1. Who
is Beetle and what is her situation?
Chapters 9 - 14 37. How
does Alyce manage to scare off the village boys in this chapter? ESSAY QUESTION Define Theme. Explain how the theme "Never Give Give" is a good message that Alyce learns as she struggles with becoming The Midwife's Apprentice.
Chapters 1 - 41. What was Lisa’s dream about?2. Where does Lisa Live?3. Describe Lisa.4. What is mothers Lisa’s brothers name?5. Who does Lisa meet on their way to way school?6. What does Stefan do to Erik while they are on their walk?7. What do Lisa’s family have to do at night with the windows? Why?8. How does Lisa feel?9. What idea does Lisa give to her father?10. After six months have passed since the Germans came to Denmark, what game do Lisa and Stefan play? 11. What way was the war being advertised to the people in Denmark? 12. What do Jesper and Stefan do at the Playground? 13. What does the note say from the streetcar? 14. What job does Stefan do? 15. What was at the school the next morning? 16. What school does Mrs. Jensen tell Lisa to go to? 17. What does Stefan tell Lisa she must volunteer to do? Where? When? 18. When doe Lisa start her job?
Chapters 5 - 1019. Who gets on the streetcar that makes Lisa nervous? What does she do to them?20. How much money does she receive at the laundry?21. What did Suzanne’s parents work at?22. What kind of music did the Germans hate? Why?23. What happened at the hospital?24. What is at the apartment when Lisa and Stefan arrive home?25. What happens outside of the apartment building?26. Who knocks at the door?27. What happened to Suzanne?28. Why did the Germans blow up the dance hall?29. What does Stefan take out of the car and pass to Suzanne and Lisa? Why?30. Why is Suzanne happy?31. What does Lisa do with the list of names and addresses? Why?32. Where did Jesper take Lisa for her 15th Birthday?33. What did they talk about in Tivoli?34. What surprising thing did Suzanne do?35. What is underneath the floorboard in the closet?36. What is the announcement that father has?
Chapters 11 - 1737. Who phones? Why?38. What day is it in the synagogue?39. What news does Lisa tell her friends?40. Why does Anne want to get Erik home right away?41. How does Lisa warn the couple on the train?42. Where does Lisa tell Hanne to go?43. Why does Erik’s grandfather convince Erik to go home?44. When Lisa and Erik get on the train, who is in the compartment with them?45. What does Lisa do after she packs the clothes for the family?46. Where are they planning to go to?47. What does Erik tell Lisa happened at the shipyard?48. When did the Germans strike?49. Who did Lisa recognize from the people pretending to be dressed up as mourners?50. What is Lisa’s Hebrew name?51. How do the people get from the hospital to the coast?52. What signal must they wait for at the coast?53. Why didn’t the boat arrive?54. What does Stefan tell Lisa? What does she decide to do?55. What do Jesper and Lisa decide to do down at the coast?56. How did Stefan alert the trawler?57. How do the people get to the trawler?58. What does Stefan take out from his pocket?59. What vehicles to people arrive in for their departure on the last two boat rides?60. When is the last boat leaving?61. What happens to the rowboat?62. Who helps the people from the boat?
ESSAY QUESTION Define Suspense. How is suspense used in the novel? Give SIX examples of how suspense is created in this novel. Explain.
Underground to Canada, by Barbara Smucker
Chapters 1 - 4
Chapters 5 - 9
Chapters 10 - 14
Chapters 15 – 19
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