"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"

Plot Points

100

Why do the packs parents send their children to "St. Lucy's..."?

Become human "To get braces...use towels"...Become productive members of society. or to have a better life.

200

Why does the pack not want to be paired with Mirabella? 

"The pack" will earn Negative Skills points. They will get blamed for her misbehavior.

300

What does human trait does Claudette excel in?

Reading "I was reading at a fifth grade reading level"

400

Why does Claudette feel “a low mad anger at the nuns” when they announce the dance?

Claudette doesn't know the dance and doesn't want to be embarassed.

500

What are some of the lessons the pack is learning at St. Lucy’s?

Prayer: "fully bipedal",  "bike riding", "good manners" (etiquette)

Vocabulary

100

Shunned (v.)

Avoided

200

Etiquette (n.)

manners

300

Lycanthropic

The delusion one is a wolf

400

placard (n.)

A large sign.

500

Cardinal- (n.)

Roman Catholic male priest.

Literary Elements

100

What literary element is being used here? "Before I could answer, Mirabella sprang out of the hall closet and snapped through Jeanette’s homework binder. Pages and pages of words swirled around the stone corridor, like dead leaves off trees."

Simile

200

What literary device is being used:"This wasn’t like the woods, where you had to be your fastest and your strongest and your bravest self. Different sorts of calculations were required to survive at the Home."?

Foreshadowing

300

What literary device is Russell using:We were greeted by blasts of a saxophone, and fizzy pink drinks, and the brothers.

Onomatopoeia

400

What literary device is being used: "They unslatted the windows at night, so that long fingers of moonlight beckoned us from the woods."?

Personification

500

What does Russell develop in the excerpt: "We sang at the chapel annexed to the Halfway House every morning. We understood that this was the humans’ moon, the place for howling beyond purpose. Not for mating, not for hunting, not for fighting, not for anything but the sound itself. And we’d howl along with the choir, hurling every pitted thing within us at the stained glass."

A symbol

"Who Said It?"

100

"HWRHA! GWARR! TRRRRRRR!"

Mirabella

200

“What lovely weather we’ve been having!”

Claudetter

300

"Yesssss...It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas"

Kyle or the brothers

400

"DO YOU WANT TO END UP SHUNNED BY BOTH SPECIES?"

Video or the Slide show (Claudette was forced to watch)

500

“I’ll wait out here,” ...leaning on a blue elm and lighting a cigarette."

Woodmen or Guide

HOT Q

100

One Sunday near the end of my time at St. Lucy’s, the sisters gave me a special pass to go visit the parents. The woodsman had to accompany me; I couldn’t remember how to find the way back on my own. I wore my best dress and brought along some prosciutto and dill pickles in the picnic basket. We crunched through the fall leaves in silence, and every step made me sadder. What is this excerpt alluding to? Hint: Fairy Tale

The Little Red Riding Hood

200

What technique is Russell using here: "In Copacabana, the girls are fat and languid and eat pink slivers of guava right out of your hand. Even at Stage 1, their pelts are silky, sun-bleached to near invisibility."?

Imagery

300

What is the Central Idea of " St. Lucy's..."?

Wolf vs Human  or

Individual vs group

400

Why does Claudette tell Mirabella that she didn't want her help?

The Nuns were watching and she didn't want to get into trouble and fail her dancing test.

500

What is the significance of the author’s focus on scent throughout the text?

Scent is important because it's how the girls recognized one another, once they lose that they lose a piece of themselves.