Vocabulary
Word Meanings & Parts
The Novel
The Story
Cause & Effect/Events
100
This word means “to start or introduce something new.”
What is launch?
100
This word describes when two words have the same or a similar meaning. This word describes when two words have the opposite meaning.
What is a synonym? What is an antonym?
100
This is the genre of the novel Frindle.
What is realistic fiction?
100
This is Mrs. Granger’s favorite book.
What is the dictionary?
100
When frindle got a national audience, it caused this to happen to Bud Lawrence’s business.
What is it caused his business to get more orders and earn more money on frindle sales. It also made a demand for new and different frindle products?
200
This word means “to set in motion; to shake.”
What is stir?
200
These terms mean parts of words that go before and after the root.
What is a prefix (before)? What is a suffix (after)?
200
This is the reason the author, Andrew Clements, might have written Frindle.
What is he wanted to entertain with a funny story about a young trouble-maker?
200
Name and describe the two events from the book that show how Nick was a trouble-maker before he was in Mrs. Granger’s class.
What is 1.) he turned Miss Deaver’s room into a tropical paradise, 2.) he thought Mrs. Avery looked like a hawk so he kept peeping in her class?
200
This is the reason Nick decided not to try his new idea with the school lunch program.
What is because Nick got in a lot of trouble for using the word frindle?
300
This word refers to something that is gray-ish or red-ish brown.
What is chestnut?
300
This suffix means “one who.”
What is -er or -or?
300
This is the conflict of Frindle.
What is Nick creates a new word and Mrs. Granger tries to stop him?
300
Name three separate events in Mrs. Granger’s class that show how Nick was a trouble-maker.
What is 1.) he tried to ask his “delaying question” to get out of homework, 2.) he tried to make his report take the entire class period, & 3.) he got all the kids to start saying the word frindle?
300
This is the reason that Nick’s father didn’t want Bud Lawrence to tell Nick about the royalty money from selling frindle products.
What is he didn’t think Nick would work or save money if he knew about the money?
400
This word refers to something that is a must, or is required, for something else to occur.
What is essential?
400
This root means “heat.”
What is therm?
400
This best describes the character Nick Allen.
What is a trouble-maker?
400
These three events inspired Nick to create the word frindle.
What is 1.) Mrs. Granger said words have meaning because we say they do, 2.) He remembered his baby word for music: gwagala, & 3.) Janet found a gold pen?
400
This is the reason Nick set up a college trust fund in Mrs. Granger’s name.
What is he respected her and was thankful for her helping his word?
500
This word is a synonym for the word “fake.” This word is an antonym.
What is phony? What is real?
500
This root means writing.
What is scrip?
500
This is the town where Frindle takes place.
What is Westfield, New Hampshire?
500
Explain how the word frindle went from the 5th grade classroom to a national audience.
What is 1.) Nick got 6 secret agents to experiment with his word and help him introduce it in the classroom, 2.) the agents spread the word to all the kids in the fifth grade, 3.) other students in the school started getting detentions, 4.) one of the parents told a reporter, Judy Morgan, who wrote an article in the Westfield Gazette, 5.) Alice lunderson, a CBS-TV news reporter saw the article and did a news segment on it, & 6.) other writers and producers saw the segment and got Nick to come on their show.
500
This is one of the actions of Mrs. Granger that caused the word frindle to continue to be used.
What is 1.) she gave detention to anyone who said the word frindle, 2.) she kept the word “pen” on the spelling list for the rest of the year, & 3.) she sent in the class photo of the kids saying frindle and holding up their pens?
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