Please answer these in a reading response notebook of your choice that you will use throughout the course of this year. We will begin using this reading response notebook by utilizing it throughout our discussion and study of Loser by Jerry Spinelli. Most of these should be some pretty basic questions for your review as you are reading. Do not stress, but do your best to answer them as you read. As you continue reading and complete the book, you will NOT have this many questions, BUT they will get more in depth and harder as we go along and begin discussing them aloud and in groups. Again, please do not stress and I hope that you'll find many to most of these fairly "doable" for you (I do not like, nor allow the word easy to be used in my classroom!). I CANNOT wait to discuss this book with you!
1) What does "trudging" mean (page 1)
2) What is a "brick-and-hoagie" town (page 3)
3) What is a "home baby" (page 3)
4) What are "let-loose" sidewalk pups? (page 5)
5) Why is Zinkoff so giddy? (page 4)
6) Why did Zinkoff's mom give a sigh of surrender? (page 9)
7) Why did Zinkoff stand out to his teacher and make her worried? (page 10)
8) What made Miss Meeks laugh? (page 11)
9) What do you already admire about Zinkoff?
10) Why does Miss Meeks think Zinkoff will always be easy to find? (page 12)
11) What type of figurative language is, "a sea of nodding heads?" (page 14)
12) "Toot, toot!" is an example of what type of figurative language? (page 17)
13) What is the "learning train?" (page 17)
14) What is the meaning of the word legible? (page 20)
15) Why was Zinkoff disappointed with recess? (page 20)
16) How did Zinkoff "cheat" the boy? (page 23)
17) Why are the 1st graders so dumb? (page 23)
18) Why are "stars" so special to Zinkoff? (page 27)
19) Why is everyday like the first day of school for Zinkoff? (page 28)
20) What causes Zinkoff to randomly laugh and continue laughing? (page 31)
21) What proves to you that Donald loves school? (pages 32-33)
22) How is Zinkoff affected by seeing Polly's diaper? (page 35)
23) Why is throwing up normal to Zinkoff? (page 40)
24) Why does Zinkoff prefer soccer over other sports? (page 42)
25) How is Zinkoff a "bad" loser? (page 45)
26) Why do several Titans ask for Zinkoff to be traded to another team? (page 46)
27) What does Zinkoff do that's the right thing for Andrew and why? (page 48)
28) What happened to Zinkoff's trophy?
No comments:
Post a Comment