Key Plot Events
The first weather event to disrupt.
This caused the roads and schools to be closed.
What the heavy snowfall causes in the story.
This animal sleeps up to 20 hours a day and still looks tired.
What is a cat?
Explain how three plot events are connected across the text.
The storms led to outages, which led to community support.
Preparation and helping others are important.
What is a lesson Jonah learns by the end of the story?
This caused power outages.
What is snow and ice on the wires?
This caused Jonah to lose power.
What is the damaged power lines.
This planet is famous for its rings—even though other planets have them too.
What is Saturn?
How one plot events changes Jonah's behavior?
Jonah became more responsible.
The power outage showed the needs for this.
What shows it is important to be prepared?
The community response created to help residents stay warm.
What are the Emergancy warming centers?
How Jonah helped his family.
How is helping his family stay warm?
This is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any U.S. state.
What is q?
The author includes specific details like delayed garbage collection and closed buses to show that winter storms affect more than just school.
Showing how daily life is disrupted across the entire community.
Supporting people and people are stronger together in time of need.
What is the theme of the story?
The event that led Jonah to interact with people outside his family.
What is the event that led Jonah to interacti with people outside his family?
Why the two opened Emergancy warming centers.
What effect did the residents loosing heat have?
The human body’s largest organ.
What is skin?
The author uses the power outage scene.
How is the seriousness of the Emergancy shown by the author?
Supports the theme of community.
The three major plot events from the story
The winter storms, the power outage and the opening of the warming centers.
How one event directly caused another event in the story.
Ex: Storm caused power outages leading to warming centers being opened.
This is the only mammal capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
The phrase “That changed” signals this shift in the story.
What is the climax?
Jonah’s growth from enjoying snow days to helping others helps the reader understand this theme.
What is responsibility and community support are essential during emergencies?