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
This is the sequence of events that takes you through a story.
What is the plot
100
What are the 3 reasons why nonfiction is written?
What is persuade,inform,and entertain
200
Who does Patricia Mckissack work with?
Who is her husband
200
What is a Baker Heater?
What is a large pot-bellied stove.
200
Who is the main character?
Who is Lester Simmons
200
This is the perspective of a character in the story.
What is first-person point of view
200
What is the setting?
What is time and place where the story takes 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 is cheat death
300
This is the overall feeling that the work evokes in the reader.
What is mood
300
This is the perspective from 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 the porters passed along tales,jokes and real life stories.
400
What was suppose to happen at 11:59?
What is the death train or die
400
This is the conclusion of a story
What is resolution
400
This is a message about life that a story conveys to its reader.
What is theme
500
What is Patricia Mckissacks husband's name?
What is Fredrick McKissack
500
How did Lester try to cheat death?
What is he didnt eat or drink anything,shut off the space heater,nailed doors and windows,unplugged every electrical appliance,and moved a chair to the corner
500
What was the resolution?
What is Lester died anyway from a heart attack.He worried himself to death
500
This is writing that tells about characters and events from the author's imagination.