Grammar
Sentence or Fragment: Jourdan made a skyscraper out of rubber bands.
What is a sentence?
A simile is a comparison of two things using _______ or ________.
What is like or as?
This is the setting of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
What is Malawi?
This character was hired to protect the Logan family from racial threats and help around the property.
Who is Mr. Morrison?
Sentence or Fragment: Nya's first piano lesson this afternoon.
What is a fragment?
This is the definition of a hyperbole.
What is an extreme exaggeration?
How do most people respond to William's activities in the scrapyard?
What is they think he is crazy?
This character is passionate about justice and will do anything to protect his family's right or their own dignity, even at the family's own peril.
Who is Uncle Hammer?
Start your sentence with: After. Topic: Balloons.
[Answers will vary.]
A metaphor is a ______________ of two things, usually saying one thing is another.
What is comparison?
What is nisma is cheap and widely available?
What is Stacey is taking accountability for his actions and learning to live with the consequences?
Determine whether the following sentence is correct or incorrect: Brea didn't eat enough for lunch so she stole AJ's popcorn.
What is incorrect?
Personification is giving ___________ characteristics to _____________ things.
What is human and non-human?
Write a sentence explaining the theme of the value of education in the book.
[Answers will vary]: Education is important because it can open up opportunities and be used to help people in very real ways.
This character pretends to befriend TJ so that he can take advantage of him and mock him.
Who is R.W. Simms?
Determine whether the sentence is simple or compound: My little brother broke my mom's favorite vase, yet I got in trouble for it.
What is a compound sentence?
This is a phrase that conveys figurative meaning that is difficult or impossible to understand based solely on the interpretation of the words.
What is an idiom?
Write a sentence explaining the theme of gratitude in the book.
[Answers will vary]: There are always things in your life to be grateful for and to celebrate, because the Lord is good!
This member of the Logan family is cheerful and doesn't like to get into arguments with others.
Who is Christopher John?