Culture Week
What are the three core values?
Honor
Integrity
Respect
What is a simile?
Comparing 2 things using like or as
A sound can be a part of dialogue
Humming sounds of boredom
What city does Dahl land in at the beginning of the story?
Greece
Who shows up to to Amy's house for dinner on Christmas?
Robert and his dad
Her crush and the minister
What is Integrity?
Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.
Comparing two things using the word is or was
Not using like or as
True or False
A dialogue can be one person
False
It must be between 2 or more people
Rather than having radars to detect incoming planes, what to the Greeks have?
Greek peasants sitting at the peak of the mountains waiting to report incoming planes.
What does Amy's mom gift her at the end of the night?
A skirt
What is the school librarians name?
Ms. Shaw
Anything that showed giving human traits to a nonliving thing.
For example: The sun smiled at me!
Did Dahl's dialogue have a positive tone or a negative tone? Give me one piece of text evidence that shows he was either positive or negative.
He had a positive tone. He was optimistic and hopeful.
A plane
What is the theme of Fish Cheeks?
I will take anything that has to do with being proud of who you are and where you come from
What is our school Mascot?
Knight
Give me an example of an Idiom
"Its raining cats or dogs" is a good example
Not literally meaning something
The excerpt "Fish Cheeks" had dialogue between the teen girl Amy and her crush Robert.
True or False?
False they never spoke to each other in the story
Dahl mentions that he doesn't have any experience flying in planes, what does he ask the Corporal to do with him ?
He asks the Corporal to take him flying with him.
Give me 3 examples of vivid details Amy included in this story.
Fish eyeballs
Burping at dinner
Double dipping chopsticks
The seafood
Name three clubs that our school has to offer?
Student Council
Robotics
Raising the bar
Chess
Tell me 6 terms of figurative language
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Idiom
Hyperbole
What did the dialogue in Dahl's story reveal about the Corporal's character?
The dialogue in the story revealed that he was straight forward, direct, realistic or negative.
Dahl has a conversation with the Corporal. The Corporal states that they only have ____ planes and the enemies have______ planes.
15 planes (14 only before Dahl got there)
Enemy has 1000 planes
How did Amy's perspective change as an adult verses how she felt as a teen?
She was proud of her culture and family