Interviews and Adaptations
Bonus!
Colonists and Inventions
Matilda
Big Ideas
100

Where we went the week we learned about animal adaptations.

The Forest Park Zoo

100

This is where your teachers are from.

Miss Nana is from Connecticut, Miss Molly is from Massachusetts 

100

Our field trip the week we learned about colonists.

 Old Sturbridge Village

100
Matilda's last name

Wormwood

100

The main idea of a story is...

What the story is mainly about


200

What would happen to animals if they did not adapt to their environment.

They die

200

Name a mammal that cannot jump.

Elephant, sloth, hippo, rhino

200

Alexander Graham Bell invented this.

Telephone


200

Name the 2 tricks Matilda pulled on her father.

Super glue in his hat and bleach in his hair oil.
200

The 6 most important elements of a story. (REMEMBER THE 5 FINGER RETELL!)

Characters, setting, problem, solution, resolution, lesson

300

The purpose of an interview.

To learn more about a person


300

What time is it?

Check the time!

300

The reason Native Americans and slaves were neither Loyalists or Patriots.

Whoever won, their lives would not change.

300

How old Matilda was when she learned to read.

5

300

This is a nonfiction genre that is about the person who wrote it.

Autobiography

400
The purpose of the hissing cockroach's adaptation.

Hissing cockroach hisses to scare away predators.

400

What is the golden rule?

Follow directions the first time.

400
The reason people invent.

To solve problems and inconveniences. 

400

14 times 19 (or 14 added together 19 times.)

266

400

The 5 steps of the writing process.

Brainstorming, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing
500

A job where you research and share the information you learned publicly.

Journalist


500

How many rings make up the Olympic rings? 

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!

Name the colors of the rings

5

Blue, yellow, black, green, red

500

The reason colonists became Loyalists or Patriots.

British taxes

500

Antagonist characters in Matilda.

Matilda's parents, brother, and Miss Trunchbull

500

Words that are always capital.

The letter I, Proper nouns (names, names of places), the first letter in a new sentence.

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