Stories
Author's Style
Vocabulary
Suffixes
Grab Bag
100
What type of story is "Escape from the Land of the Cyclops"? 
Myth
100
I fished my backpack out of the river. My sandwich was soggy like a wet sponge. It tasted like a wet sponge too. Yuck!


a. informal

b. impersonal

c. formal

d. suspenseful 

a. informal 
100
to agree to
grant
100
What does "soften" mean?


a. the quality of being soft

b. to become soft

c. very soft

d. not soft

b. to become soft
100
Which word means in a creative manner?


a. creator

b. creation

c. creatively

d. create 

c. creatively 
200
Identify the setting for Escape from the land of the Cyclops.
In the land of the Cyclops, in a cave.
200
In "Into the Wild" Ronald Franze gives Alex "a self improvement pitch", what is an simpler way of saying this?
Franz lectured him/gave him advice.
200
a large amount of something
abundance
200
The suffix "less" means
without
200
What was the conflict in Escape from the Land of the Cyclops?
Odysseus and his men were trapped in a cave with a cyclops who was going to eat them.
300
What type of story was "600 Miles to Timbuktu"?
Memoir
300

What is the author's style?

Do you want to hear about my latest cool adventure?
informal
300
very thin and bony 
gaunt
300
A word that means "without close attention"
 "careless". 
300
 What word means "towards the inside"?
Inward
400

Who was the main character in "Northward Bound?"

Mathew Henson 
400
How does including a conversation add to the author's style?
It makes the text seem more realistic and vivid. 
400
to reach or achieve
 attain 
400

Which suffix means "possessing or full of"?

a. ly

b. less

c. ous

c. "ous" 

400
What word means "in an unsure manner"?
 Hesitantly 
500
What is your Expert Project for this Workshop?
What Went Wrong? You are part of and investigation team trying to determine what went wrong with K-2 Expeditions so that others can learn from their mistakes.
500

"Four foot monitor lizards crawl from the water and creep behind brush. Fish pluck insects on the water's surface. And Birds - thousands of them-fly in unbroken, undulating clouds that dip and shoot across the river. These flocks are perfectly formed, not a single bird out of place, all flying with careful yet carefree precision."

What is the author's style in one word?


Descriptive 
500
 the act or taking and maintaining a stand. 
insistence
500
Using your background knowledge on what the word "entire" means, how does the meaning change when you add the suffix "ly"?


entire- complete 

entirely -in a complete manner/completely 

500
Name all of the Stories we have read in Workshop 7.
600 Miles to Timbuktu, Northward Bound, Escape from the Land of the Cyclops, Into the Wild
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