Characters
Sequence
Vocabulary
Drawing Conclusions
Plot
100
Who is the main character?
Grace
100
Which friends brought the idea up of inventing something?
Raj.
100
What does aboard mean? Hint: What does it mean when someone says, "All aboard!"
On board or get on board.
100
What is Nana's role in the household while Ava is at work?
She is the caretaker.
100
Where does the story take place?
At Grace's house
200
Who wanted to go the market?
Aimee.
200
Where are they in Trinidad?
On a small island at Nana's house.
200
What does awkward mean?
Uncomfortable or uneasy, weird.
200
What does drawing conclusions mean?
You use details and facts to make a conclusion.
200
What do the kids use to make the main part of the time machine?
A bike.
300
How did Nana end up in crutches?
She tripped over the cat.
300
Where did they go after visiting the past with dinosaurs?
To Nana's past in Trinidad.
300
When something is mechanical, it is like a ___________?
Machine
300
Why do you think the children left the future with robots?
Because the robots got rid of humans.
300
Why do the children make a time machine?
Each of them thinks of a way it can be useful.
400
Where does Raj want to go in the time machine?
To the past with dinosaurs.
400
Where was the last place they time traveled to?
To Mrs. Myerson's grandparent's house.
400
What is an atlas?
A book of maps.
400
Why does Mrs. Myerson not leave her house?
She does not trust anyone and what happened to her during WWII.
400
What part of the story is realistic and what part is fantasy?
Beginning where the children build the time machine is realistic. They make-believe the parts of time traveling.
500
Why does Mrs. Myerson try the time machine?
She is not as fearful with children and Nana likes the time machine.
500
What lets you know that the time machine was fantasy?
Grace says that it was like they really traveled back in time.
500
When you're capable of doing something, what does that mean?
You can or able to do something.
500
Why do the children make a quick getaway from the past?
They are afraid of being eaten by T-Rex.
500
What does the time machine let Nana and Mrs. Myerson do?
Travel to the past when they were young.
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