Patricia Polacco I
Patricia Polacco II
Meteor!
Pink and Say
Thank You, Mr. Falker
100
What is the date that Patricia Polacco was born?
July 11, 1944
100
What is sitting by the fire, eating popcorn and listening to Babushka tell as story?
Firetalking
100
Where did the story take place? Or where is the setting of the story?
The Gaw Farm
100
Who are the main characters in the story?
Pinkus Aylee (Pink) and Sheldon Russell Curtis (Say)
100
Where did the story take place?
California
200
Who is Patricia Polacco's grandmother? Babushka
Babushka
200
What is a learning disability Patricia had that made it difficult for her to learn to read?
Dyslexia
200
What fell into the Gaw yard?
a meteor
200
What was Pinkus’ mother’s name?
Sweet Moe Moe Bay
200
What did the tradition of pouring the honey on a book represent?
Knowledge is sweet, and it has to be chased through the pages of a book.
300
What age did Patricia Polacco learned to read?
Fourteen years old
300
Who is the teacher that taught Patricia how to read?Mr. Falker
Mr. Falker
300
The townspeople began calling each other to do this.
What is gossip?
300
What did Pinkus call slavery?
The sickness
300
Why do you think drawing is so important to Trisha?
It is one thing she is really good at.
400
What stories inspired Patricia Polacco to write?
Horton Hears a Who, Peter Rabbit, Grimm's Fairy Tales
400
What age did Patricia start writing books?
41 years old
400
How did they celebrate the meteor?
The town did meteoric activities.
400
What did Patricia Polacco ask the reader to do, at the end of the story?
Vow to always remember remember Pinkus Aylee
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How many miles away was the thunderstorm?
500
Which artist inspires Patricia Polacco in her art?
Norman Rockwell
500
The headstone on her grandmother Gaw's grave.
What is a meteor?
500
What did the people of the town believe about the meteor? It had magical powers.
It had magical powers.
500
When Moe Moe spoke of paper talking, what was she referring to?
Reading
500
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