Characters
This person is the main character in Frindle.
Who is Nick Allen?
Nick renames this a "frindle."
What is a pen?
This is how the word "frindle" spreads outside of Lincoln Elementary School.
What is a newspaper article in the Westfield Gazette by Judy Morgan?
Cause: Nick went to the Penny Pantry and asked for a "frindle" for the first time.
Effect: The lady leaned over the counter and asked, "A what?" (She didn't know what he was talking about.)
Who said. . . "Who says dog means dog? You do, Nicholas."
Who is Mrs. Granger.
This character is Nick's strict language arts teacher in 5th grade.
Who is Mrs. Granger?
What is the learning tool that Mrs. Granger loved and almost worshipped.
What is a dictionary?
This is the only word in English invented by one person for no reason.
What is quiz?
Find the cause.
Every kid said, "Frindle!" and they held one up for the camera to see.
What is when the photographer was taking the fifth grade picture, they photographer said, "Say cheese," and no one did.
Who said . . . "And really, the problem isn't so much the word itself. It's the lack of respect for authority."
Who is Mrs. Chatham?
This character is the principal of Nick's school, Lincoln Elementary School.
Who is Mrs. Chatham?
What was the "perfect thought-grenade?
What is Nick asked where all the words in the dictionary came from?
According to Bud Lawrences' lawyer, who does the word frindle belong to?
Who is Nick Allen?
Find the effect.
Cause: Every fifth grader asked Mrs. Granger for a "frindle."
Effect: What is she kept all of them (over 200 students) after school.
Who said . . . "So what's next for you and your new word?"
Who is the TV reporter, Alice Lunderson?
This character is the businessman who helps trademark "frindle."
Who is Bud Lawrence?
In what class did Nick decide to "launch" his new word.
What is seventh-period, language arts?
This is what Bud Lawrence does with the word "frindle?"
What is trademarks and markets it.
Find the cause.
Effect: Every week, the students in Mrs. Granger's class got at least one word wrong each week on their spelling tests.
What is
Cause: Each week, every student wrote frindle on their spelling tests instead of pen.
Who said . . . "Right now, I got a shirt printer in Massachusetts and another one in Chicago and another one in Los Angeles making T-shirts with the word frindle above a picture of a pen - I mean a frindle."
Who is Bud Lawrence?
This character is Nick's friend who first agrees to use "frindle" AND gets in trouble for Nick's "peep."
Who is Janet Fisk?
To what game does Nick compare his battle with Mrs. Granger?
What is chess?
This is how Nick knew his battle with Mrs. Granger was over.
What is the word "frindle" was added to the dictionary.
Find the effect.
Cause: Mrs. Granger sent Nicholas the letter, a new dictionary, and a her writing pen.
What is
Effect: Nick set up The Lorelei Granger Student's Fund, a trust fund for college scholarships.
Who said . . . "So what's next for you and your new word?"
Who is Alice Lunderson?