Vocabulary
Onomatopoeia
Names an action by a sound.
How does Evan hurt his nose?
With a baseball
What grade has Jessie been promoted to?
Fourth Grade
What is the main mood of Chapter 3?
Feelings of anger
What had Jessie hoped for when she set up a lemonade stand with Megan Moriarty?
That Evan would join them and things would be like before.
Lull
A temporary interval of quiet or lack of activity.
(Evan throwing the ball to the ceiling) “Pop. Thwap. Pop. Thwap.”
Onomatopoeia
“It’s not a big deal, said Jessie again, her voice stretched tight like a rubber band.”
Simile
If one cup of lemonade sells for fifty cents and you sell fourteen cups of lemonade, how much money would you have made?
$7.00
What caused Megan Moriarty to laugh so hard?
A boy (Tommy Pawley) pulled his pants down to pee.
Idiom
A commonly used expression of a group or culture
What did Evan do with the ten dollars their grandmother gave him?
He spent it taking his friends out for pizza
FALSE
What does chintzy mean?
"But why are you riding back and forth?" asked Megan impatiently.
What does impatiently mean?
Unwilling or unable to wait calmly, or restlessly eager for something to happen
Humiliated
“Jesse standing on the bottom step with daylight squirting all around her.”
Metaphor
In chapter 2, Jessie and Evan were having a lemonade stand together. What conclusion can you draw from this statement?
This is something they enjoyed doing together before the letter came.
What does Evan reveal when he tells Scott: “Just shut up. She’s okay. She just…she doesn’t….look, she’s okay.”
That Jessie is more important to him than his friendship with Scott.
With a sinking heart, Jessie checked the town phone book.
Idiom
Personification
Human characteristics to nonhuman objects, animals, and ideas
How does Jessie try to appease Evan?
Offering to go to 711/Playing 'Stratego' or board game
Read this sentence from Chapter 2:
"And then he stomped downstairs and locked himself in his room for the rest of the afternoon."
Why does the author use the word stomped in the sentence above?
To show how angry Evan is about being in the class with Jessie.
Evan turned on his heel and walked away. Behind him, he could hear Megan Moriarty laughing at him, clear as a bell.
Simile
Jessie felt like she scored a hundred on a test and gotten five points for extra credit. So why did Evan stomp off?
What was Jessie experiencing in this moment?
Inner conflict