Dead Poets Society
Animal Farm
Skipping Christmas
A Christmas Carol
Vocabulary
100

This is the location where the boys hold their meetings for the Dead Poets Society.

A cave

100

This event directly sparks the Rebellion.

Mr. Jones neglects feeding the animals

100

The name of the street where Krank's live.

Hemlock

100

Scrooge's former business partner, now deceased.

Jacob Marley

100

The term for a person who is unfairly blamed for the problems of others.

Scapegoat

200

Often uttered by Mr. Keating and echoed by the boys throughout the novel, this is the latin phrase meaning, seize the day.

Carpe Diem!

200

The reason why Snowball wants to animals to build a windmill.

For Electricity (to warm them and reduce labor)

200

Mr. Krank's profession.

Accountant

200

This character visits Scrooge in Stave One and invites him to Christmas Dinner.

His nephew, Fred

200

This is the term for a short, interesting story about a real event or person.

Anecdote

300

Although his father wanted him to become a medical doctor, Neil realizes he has a passion for what?

Acting

300

This is who Napoleon calls upon to expel Snowball from the farm.

The dogs

300

Considered by many to be the unofficial block captain of Hemlock St.

Vic Frohmeyer

300

This is the primary purpose of Marley's visit with Scrooge.

To warn him

300

The term for a false idea or misleading appearance that deceives the mind.

Illusion

400

The name of the Shakespearean play Neil wants to audition for?

A Midsummer Night's Dream

400

This is the name of the song that is taught to the animals by Old Major, and is eventually banned as no longer necessary.

Beasts of England

400

The amount Luther calculates they spent on last year's Christmas.

$6,100

400

This is the number of spirits Marley says will come to Scrooge in the night.

3

400

This is the term for a person who claims to have moral standards but actually does not.

Hypocrite

500
Defying Dean Nolan, this simple gesture from the boys at the end of the novel is how they honor Mr. Keating after he is fired.

Stand on their desks

500

This is how the hen's rebel after Napoleon orders they surrender there eggs for sale.

Fly up to the rafters and let their eggs crash to the ground.

500

Nora agrees to Luther's plan of skipping Christmas only after he agrees to still give this amount to charity.

$600

500

This is what the young woman, Belle, claims has corrupted Scrooge.

Gain/Gold/Greed

500

This is the term for information used to influence opinions or actions, especially for political reasons.

Propaganda

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