Comprehension
The part of the boat where Scoot is in the story.
What is the gallley?
Melissa "Scoot" Atkins and her brother Sully go on a sailing trip to celebrate Scoot's 14th birthday. They sail from Catalina Island to off the coat of Baja, Ca. It was a sunny perfect day, and Scoot leaves Sully on the top deck to go below into the Old Sea Dog's tiny galley to fix herself something to eat,...
What is the exposition?
The most exciting part of the story, this is a turning point in the story.
What is the climax?
the author of Rogue Wave
Who is Theodore Taylor?
becomes covered with water
What is submerged?
The setting of the story.
What is the Old Sea Dog and the Pacific Ocean?
Once Sully finds that he cannot get in the boat to save Scoot, he is losing hope and thinks she may be better off dead.
What is an internal conflict?
Reveals the final outcome of the conflict, the problem is solved, and the story wraps up.
What is the resolution?
This element of a story is every single piece of the story...beginning, middle and end. All parts of the story, everything that happens.
What is the plot?
A window in the cabin of a boat.
What is a porthole?
The word that best describes Sully's feelings while he was diving repeatedly, trying to free Scoot.
What is frustrated?
The sudden appearance and hit of a rogue wave that tips over Sully and Scoot's boat, leaving Scoot trapped in the galley.
What is the external conflict?
The problem or struggle that takes place in a character's mind, and sometimes involves making a decision, dealing with your conscience or feelings and fears.
What is an internal conflict?
...sturdy Sea Dog had been flipped like a cork
What is a simile?
The act of guiding along a planned course.
What is navigation?
The reason rogue waves are especially dangerous.
What is unpredictable or unexpected?
Scoot dives down a sixth time and is finally able to push the skylight window open and Old Sea Dog let's her go as she swims to the surface and calls out for Sully.
What is the climax?
Introduces the characters and presents the setting and conflict.
What is the exposition?
Melissa Atkin's nickname and where it came from.
What is her dad named her Scoot because as a baby she would scoot herself around?
A long unbroken wave.
What is a swell?
Evidence: "Sully had sailed her at least a dozen times. He'd been around boats, motor and sail, for many of his nineteen years" (page 5).
What is Sully is an experienced sailor?
Shivering, holding each other for warmth all night, knowing the boat was sinking lower and lower each hour, the crew on the Red Rooster sees the two teenagers and picks them up.
What is the falling action?
The stage of the plot that develops the conflict or struggle and things get more complicated.
What is the rising action?
the antagonist of this story
What is a rogue wave?
The platform on a ship or boat where people stand.
What is the deck?