Fat Questions
Turn the Skinny Question into a Fat Question:
What is your favorite color?
Answers may vary. What is your favorite color and why do you enjoy it?
Jess has gotten up early every morning during the summer. Why?
Jess has gotten up early to run each day because he wants to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade.
Who are the 3 main characters of the story?
Jess, Leslie, and Maybelle
Explain why Leslie wants to go to church with Jess' family.
Leslie wants to go to church with them because she has never been to church before.
Rewrite the sentence correctly:
maybelle sometimes annoys jess
Maybelle sometimes annoys Jess.
Turn the Skinny Question into a Fat Question:
Did you read Chapter 13?
Answers may vary. What is your opinion on Chapter 13?
When Jess tells his father that he wants to be an artist, how does his father react?
His father got very angry when Jess told him he wanted to be an artist, and questioned what he was learning at school.
Name 3 of the major settings in the story.
Terabithia, the school, Leslie's house, Jess' family farm
What do the initials PT stand for?
Prince Terrien
Rewrite the sentence correctly:
PTis a vary cute dogg?
PT is a very cute dog.
Turn the Skinny Question into a Fat Question:
Who is Miss Bessie.
How would you describe Miss Bessie.
How does Leslie differ from the other students?
Leslie is dressed in faded cutoffs and a blue undershirt. All of the other kids are dressed in their Sunday best.
Leslie wants to race with the boys.
When does the story take place? (the year)
The 1970's
Describe Jess' reaction when given the news of Leslie's death.
Jess does not want to believe the news, and keeps saying, "No!". He runs down the road, but his dad goes and picks him up. He falls to his bed at home, feeling numb.
Rewrite the sentence correctly:
leslies' family have a lot of monie.
Leslie's family has a lot of money.
Turn the Skinny Question into a Fat Question:
What is Jess' favorite hobby?
What is Jess' favorite hobby and how does his Dad react to it?
What name does Leslie give their new land?
Leslie named their land Terabithia.
Why did Jess and Leslie become friends? Hint: How was Jess feeling at the beginning of the story.
Jess was lonely until he met Leslie and they became friends.
Jess feels that Leslie has failed him. Why?
Jess feels this way because she died when he needed her most.
Rewrite the sentence correctly:
Jess's family farm has a cow name miss bessie
Jess' family farm has a cow named Miss Bessie.
Turn the Skinny Question into a Fat Question:
How old are you?
Answers may vary. What do you like about being your current age?
Explain why Prince Terrien was exiled to the porch.
Prince Terrien was exiled to the porch because no one could get anything done without the dog jumping on them or licking them.
What is the Main Idea of the novel? AKA what did the author want us to learn?
To be brave and face your fears.
What does Jess decide to build at the end of the novel? What does this tell us about Jess?
Jess decides to build a bridge because he wants to carry on the magic of Terabithia. He includes Maybelle. This tells us that Jess is going to carry on the magic.
Rewrite the sentence correctly:
In the book bridge to terabithia jess trys to become the faster kid in the fifth grade
Hint: There are two commas.
In the book, Bridge to Terabithia, Jess tries to become the fastest kid in the fifth grade.