Who am I?
I am a cow in the Aarons' pasture
Miss Bessie
This teacher inspires Jess and Leslie to become friends by singing a delightful song in her class.
Miss Edmunds
How do Jess and Leslie get to Terabithia
(How to they cross the creek?)
Swing on the rope, over the creek.
What is the main theme of the novel :
friendship
The dog's nickname
P.T. (Prince Terien)
I admire my only brother.
May Belle
This hobby makes Jess stand out as different in his school
drawing
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Where do Leslie and Jess go to inquire the spirits about the bad weather ?
The sacred grove
The pine grove
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Describe Leslie.
Both physically and personality wise.
What themes are depicted through her character?
Leslie has short hair, she wears cutoff jeans and sneakers.
She is smart, brave, imaginative.
She is freespirited and nonconformist.
She defies gender AND social norms.
Leslie's house is called ...
Old Perkins place
I enjoy running and reading.
Leslie Burke
Kids make fun of Leslie because she doesn't have one of these in her home.
Jess is afraid to go to Terabithia for this reason in ch. 9
The creek was overflowing with water.
Compare Leslie's Xmas gift to Jesse with Dad's Xmas gift to Jesse. Explain the significance.
Leslie got Jesse something that he would truly enjoy and appreciate. She supports his talent.
Jesse's dad doesn't have a close relationship with Jesse and doesn't approve of his drawings. He got him a toy fit for a "boy".
In which room was the family gathered at Leslie's house after her death when Jesse went to pay his respects ?
The golden room
We are both writers and moved to the country to reassess our values.
Judy and Bill Burke
Leslie buys this for Jess since she believes in his talent.
paint and art supplies
This character is represented by the giants in Terabithia.
Janice Avery.
Explain the significance of the rope
It transports Leslie and Jessie from the real world to the fantasy world of Terabithia.
The rope is described as very old, hung on the crab apple tree by "someone long forgotten." Although Jess and Leslie use their imaginations to transform it into a magic rope, it is still simply an old rope. Like all old ropes, it could eventually break ...and it does.
Explain the significant display Jesse saw at the Washington museum (Smithsonian)
"a miniature scene of Indians disguised in Buffalo skin scaring a herd of Buffalo into stampeding over a cliff to their death with more Indians waiting below to butcher and skin them. It was a three dimensional nightmare version of some of his drawings. He felt a frightening sense of kinship to it."
I bullied May Belle, Jess and Leslie until Leslie helped make me feel better.
Janice Avery
Jess wants to be the fastest runner in 5th grade for this reason :
He wants his dad to be proud of him.
He doesn't want to be known as "that little kid that draws"
By doing this, Jess accepts Leslie's death and returns to Terabithia
He makes May Belle queen.
Explain the title : Bridge to Terabithia
Both Leslie and Jesse acted as bridges for eachother (friendship)
After Leslie's death, Jesse decides to build a sturdy bridge into Terabithia. Jess builds the bridge so that reaching Terabithia will be safe.
"Ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity" p. 1 (imitation of the sound of dad's truck)
What do you call this word formation?
Onomatopoeia