Seventh Grade
Papa's Parrot
Ribbons/Treasure
Stolen Day
All Summer in a Day
100
A vocabulary word that is a synonym for shyly.
What is sheepishly?
100
Mr. Tillian buys the parrot for this reason.
What is to have company in the shop?
100
Grandmother has just arrived from this town.
What is Hong Kong?
100
"Stolen Day" is told from this character's point of view. Double: What type of point of view is this?
Who is the boy? Double: first-person
100
This is what the children are doing at the beginning of the story.
What is peering out the window?
200
Victor takes this class an an elective because a girl he likes is in the class.
What is French?
200
This vocabulary word is a synonym for restarted.
What is resumed?
200
A misunderstanding over this leads the young men to attack Lemon Brown.
What is thinking his treasure is money or something worth a lot of money?
200
This is what the author means when he describes himself as "pretty sore at his mother".
What is he is angry with her?
200
Margot is like her classmates because she has the same desire to see this.
What is the sun?
300
The tone of the author in the following passage, "Victor thinking, man, that's weird, Michael thinks making a face makes him handsome."
What is humorous?
300
The author's intent in the following line: "Harry sobbed, 'I'm here.' The tears were coming."
What is showing the shock of realization?
300
This vocabulary word means the opposite of planned.
What is impromptu?
300
This vocabulary word means the opposite of happy.
What is solemn?
300
Another way to say the rain is beginning to let up is to say that is (vocabulary word).
What is slackening?
400
This type of expression is used by authors to enliven writing and make it sound casual and informal.
What is idiom?
400
Harry shows this underlying feeling when he throws peppermints at the parrot.
What is guilt?
400
The importance of compassion and communication summarizes this element of "Ribbons."
What is theme?
400
This word describes the narrator's reaction to observing Walter fishing at the pond.
What is envious?
400
This message is conveyed by the following passage: "A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again."
What is even the trees on Venus feel oppressed by the constant rain?
500
The tone of Mr. Bueller's response to Victor's bluff about knowing French.
What is sympathetic?
500
This aspect of Harry's character is revealed by his embarrassment over his father's devotion to the parrot.
What is teenage insecurity.
500
This feeling motivates Greg to enter the abandoned building.
What is curiosity?
500
The author's purpose in the following line: "I was getting more and more angry the more thinking I did."
What is exploring the character's behavior?
500
What element of the story is described in the following passage: "It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling finally and cutting off all noise..."
What is setting?
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