Characters in Part One
The main character of Watermelon a Cautionary Tale
Who is Jimmy?
The fruit Jimmy eats
What is watermelon?
A series of events that give meaning to a story
The main character in the second part
Who is Jimmy
What Jimmy promises not to do in part two
What is eating any watermelon
The character that first notices a change in Jimmy
Who is Jimmy's teacher
The action Jimmy performs that splits him into pieces
What is flipping off a swingset?
The part of the story that provides meaning to the story as a whole
key details
The new characters added to the second part
What is Tucker and Jessie (Jimmy's classmate)
How Jimmy turns back into a boy
What is he never turned into a watermelon, he just fell asleep during class
The other characters in part one
Who are Jimmy's teachers, mom, nurse, and classmates
The overall message in part one
What is do not eat the seeds in watermelon?
What is resolution?
What is Jimmy becomes more respectful of his mom, teacher, and principal
What is Jimmy's school?
Jimmy's ability to listen in the first part
What is not well or does not listen very often
Jimmy's symptoms in order
What is wakes up with leaves on his pillow, stems coming out of his nose, stems coming out of his ears, sneezing watermelon juice, his eyes turning into seeds, his mouth turning into a watermelon, his armpit hair turning into leaves, his stomach becoming a watermelon, his whole body except for the legs becomes a watermelon, and fully transforming into a watermelon
Three key details that are present within part one that signal Jimmy's transformation
What is Jimmy grows a watermelon stomach, he starts to sneeze out vines, and leaves are left on his pillow when he gets up
The characters that align with Ed Puzzle's description of what characters in a story are
What is Jimmy, the mom, the teacher, the nurse, the principal, Jessie, and Tucker (Jimmy's dog)
The number of pets Jimmy has
What is one?
What is he eats the watermelon after his mom said not to and he cheats in the track race by rolling to the finish line instead of running
What is two days?
All the elements of a story that we discussed in class
How we are becoming better readers by writing this sequel (think about the Ed Puzzle video)
What is good readers think about characters as they read
The lesson in our sequel
What is always respect your teachers, classmates, and guardians?