Vocabulary
A piece of rock from space
What is a meteor?
hanging or swinging loosely
What is dangling?
Where do Mr. and Mrs. Budwing go at the beginning of the story?
Out for dinner?
What were the names of the brother and sister in Jumanji?
Peter and Judy
Name the three story elements we compared and contrasted?
Setting, theme, plot
pieces that mark your place on a board game
What is tokens?
flaw or weakness
What is defective?
What is the original game that Danny finds in the park
Zathura
Name the first animal that Peter and Judy brought back to life in the game?
A lion
What was the setting of Jumanji, how was it different from Zathura?
The setting was a house, it never left Earth
programmed to do the jobs that a person usually does
What is a robot?
moving in the opposite direction
What is reversed?
Name the relationship between Danny and Walter
Brothers
What animals did Peter and Judy find in the kitchen?
Monkies
Where did both families find the mysterious games?
In the park
Turned around on an axis or a central point?
Rotated
staggered
What is someone who sways or walks unsteadily?
What planet does the Alien come from?
Zorgon
What sickness did Peter get from the tsetse fly?
Sleeping Sickness
What theme did both stories share?
Be careful with what you know little about
What genre is a story of imagined events usually set in the future and based on science or technology.
What is science fiction?
What is the term for telling similarities and differences between two things?
Compare and Contrast
What fails when Walter takes his first turn?
His gravity belt
Where did Judy and Peter's parents go at the beginning of the story?
The Opera
Name the major difference between the two games
Jumanji was a jungle game and Zathura was a space game