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Patricia Polacco I
Patricia Polacco II
Meteor!
Pink and Say
Thank You, Mr. Falker
100
July 11, 1944
What is the date that Patricia Polacco was born?
100
Firetalking
What is sitting by the fire, eating popcorn and listening to Babushka tell as story?
100
The Gaw Farm
Where did the story take place? Or where is the setting of the story?
100
Pinkus Aylee (Pink) and Sheldon Russell Curtis (Say)
Who are the main characters in the story?
100
At a farm.
Where did the story take place?
200
Babushka
Who is Patricia Polacco's grandmother?
200
Dyslexia
What is a learning disability Patricia had that made it difficult for her to learn to read?
200
a meteor
What fell into the Gaw yard?
200
A magic rock
What does Da show his kids in the woods?
200
The child and grandmother
Who is the story about?
300
Fourteen years old
What age did Patricia Polacco learned to read?
300
Mr. Falker
Who is the teacher that taught Patricia how to read?
300
The townspeople began calling each other to do this.
What is gossip?
300
Da was really good at it?
What is storytelling?
300
Thunder and lightening
What is the child afraid of?
400
Horton Hears a Who, Peter Rabbit, Grimm's Fairy Tales
What stories inspired Patricia Polacco to write?
400
41 years old
What age did Patricia start writing books?
400
The town did meteoric activities.
How did they celebrate the meteor?
400
Da did this to find a new job at the local radio station.
What are wrote stories?
400
10 miles away
How many miles away was the thunderstorm?
500
Norman Rockwell
Which artist inspires Patricia Polacco in her art?
500
The headstone on her grandmother Gaw's grave.
What is a meteor?
500
It had magical powers.
What did the people of the town believe about the meteor?
500
It is where the magic is.
What is inside of us?
500
Tomato and chocolate
What are two ingredients in thundercake?