Percy Jackson
Who did Percy fight in Chapter 4 of Percy Jackson.
The Minotaur
What figurative language is comparing two things using LIKE or AS?
Simile
Who is the god of the sky?
Zeus
What is the definition of prediction?
An educated guess at what will happen next in a story?
What is the largest human organ?
Where did Percy Jackson go to school?
What figurative language is a word that makes the sound that word is representing?
Onomatopoeia
Who is the god of the sea?
Poseidon
What is the definition of inference?
Who was the first Disney Princess?
Snow White
Who were the 3 old ladies Percy saw on the side of the road?
The Fates
Why do we use figurative language?
To make reading more interesting.
To help us visualize the reading.
To add emotion to the reading.
Who was the spinner who wronged Athena and was transformed into a spider?
Arachne
What is the definition of point of view?
The way a story is being told. How the story is being told and who the story is being told by.
What are the names of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Bonus 100 points if you know why they were named that way.
Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo.
They are famous renaissance painters.
What creatures are Grover and Mr. Brunner?
Satyr and Centaur
What figurative language is when you use the same sounding start of a word to elicit an emotion.
Alliteration
Who is the goddess of magic?
Hecate
What is the definition of perspective?
The way a character sees the world or the story unfolding.
Which is the most abundant natural gas in our atmosphere?
Nitrogen, which makes up over 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Who goes to camp at Camp Half-Blood?
Children of gods and mortals, Satyrs, and Nymphs.
Mr. D and Chiron as well.
What figurative language is used to reference to something that the reader needs to know about to understand.
Allusion
Why do we study Greek Mythology?
To help learn lessons through interesting stories. To understand an ancient culture. To see where some basic concepts of storytelling come from.
What are the 5 parts you need for an effective summary?
Introduce the text
Briefly outline what the text is about
Identify Theme
Keep things short and concise
Keep your opinion and judgements out of it
What does the Richter scale measure?
Bonus 100 points for knowing the highest record on the scale
The magnitude of an earthquake
Magnitude 9.5, happened in 1960 in Chile