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 the definition of Powerful?
What is having great strength.
100
This is a sequence of events that take 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
What is an example of Communication?
What is to talk on the phone, write letters, email, etc.
200
What is the setting in a story?
What is the 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 is cheat death.
300
Define the word Loyalty.
What is being faithful and true to beliefs, ideas, or people.
300
What is the perspective in which a story is told?
What is the 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 supposed to happen at 11:59?
What is the death train or die.
400
Use the word Courtesy in a sentence.
Ex) What is to...show courtesy to other movie-goers by keeping cell phones turned off.
400
What is the message about life that a story conveys to its reader?
What is Theme?
500
What is Patricia McKissack’s husband’s name?
Who is Fred McKissack.
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 customary?
What is usual; happening regularly by custom.
500
What is the perspective of a character in a story?
What is First Person Point of View
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