Vocabulary
A person who helps make something has made a...
Contribution
Circumstances
What genre of story is Captain Arsenio?
Fantasy
What were Captain Arsenio's four unsuccessful careers before he started inventing?
Cheese maker, blacksmith, scuba diver, and ship captain
What is ONE way Captain Arsenio would improve his Monocanary?
a) choose more obedient birds
b) Test the design on a field without trees
c) Carry a ladder
To have a strong feelings and emotions about something means you are...
Passionate
Someone who is odd is...
Eccentric
What does a the plot of a fantasy story usually include
A conflict, or a problem, and its resolution, or how it is solved
Which project of Captain Arsenio's three took the longest to complete? And how long did it take?
Motocanary - 2 days, 14 hrs, 10 min, 7.5 seconds
What was Captain Arsenio's first project and how did it work?
Motocanary - Captain Arsenio tied lots of canaries together in hopes that they would fly and lift him off the ground
The act of moving fast...
Acceleration
A rough model created to test something before creating it in its final form is a...
Prototype
Who is the author of Captain Arsenio
Pablo Bernasconi
How many of his projects did we explore in his diary?
3
Where do most people insist Captain Arsenio's diary was found in 1969?
The surface of the moon
If something happened for an obvious reason it happened...
Evidently
A group known and respected for its excellence is
Distinguished
What is an inference?
An educated guess based on the reader's own knowledge and experience, plus clues, or evidence, from the text.
How do we know about Captain Arsenio?
His Diary
Does anyone know what happened to Captain Arsenio and his machines?
No one knows for certain, all that was left behind was his diary
The idea to create something...
Conceived
A desire to do something is an...
Impulse
______ + ______ = understanding
text evidence + background knowledge = understanding
What was Captain Arsenio's third project and how did it work?
Corkscrewpterus - he created a spring system that launched him in the air
What was Captain Arsenio's second project and how did it work?
Flying Runner - When Captain Arsenio would run it would make the machine's wings flap up and down