About the Author
The Baker Heater League
The 11:59
Vocab
Fiction and Nonfiction
100
Who is the author of The Baker Heater League and The 11:59?
Who is Patricia McKissack?
100
What type of selection is The Baker Heater League, fiction or nonfiction?
What is nonfiction.
100
What type of selection is "The 11:59?" Fiction or nonfiction?
What is fiction.
100
What is something handed down from one generation to the next?
What is a legacy.
100
This is a sequence of events that takes you through a story.
What is plot
200
Who does Patricia McKissack work with?
Who is her husband?
200
What is a baker heater?
What is a pot-bellied stove.
200
Who is the main character?
Who is Lester Simmons
200
How would you use the word 'scoffed' in a sentence?
Ex) The tall teenager scoffed at the idea that she couldn't dunk a basketball.
200
What is the setting in a story?
What is time and place
300
What does she do before writing a story, especially a nonfiction selection?
What is research.
300
What was the special brotherhood called?
What is The Baker Heater League
300
What was Lester trying to do?
What was cheat death.
300
Would a storyteller tell a read a story aloud to a crowd from a book or recite the story from memory?
What is to recite the story from memory.
300
This is the perspective in which a story is told
What is Point of View
400
Name some materials that Patricia McKissack gathers about a subject before writing.
What are books, newspapers, magazines, diaries, journals, maps, graphs, the internet, and personal travel.
400
How was information passed along?
What is through the train system. The porters also told jokes, stories, sang songs, etc.
400
What was supposed to happen at 11:59?
What is the death train is to appear OR you will die.
400
If something is told in advance, it is.....?
What is predicted
400
This is a message about life that a story conveys to its reader
What is theme
500
How does Patricia McKissack make her fictional stories real?
What is to include nonfictional elements in her fictional writing
500
Who are the three main legendary heroes of the railroad?
Who are Casey Jones, John Henry and Daddy Joe.
500
What was the resolution?
What is Lester died anyway from a heart attack.He worried himself to death.
500
What is the definition of 'exploits?'
What is brave or notable deeds
500
This is the perspective of a character in a story.
What is First Person Point of View
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