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About The Story and Author
The Plot
The Sakkaros
Randoms
Vocabulary
100
The Genre
What is Science Fiction?
100
These are the names of the 2 families (our characters) in the story.
Who are the Sakkaros and the Wrights?
100
This is why Mr. Sakkaro carries a radio with him.
What is Mr. Sakkaro wanting to know the weather?
100
This word means 'of the sky'.
What is 'celestial'?
100
This means 'prevent'.
What is 'forestall'?
200
I am the author of this story.
Who is Isaac Asimov?
200
These are two events that are part of the rising action (events that drive the story towards its climax).
What is Mrs. Wright wondering about the neighbors, Mrs. Wright visiting the Sakkaros, Mrs. Sakkaros pouring water carefully, the two families visiting the amusement park, the Sakkaros eating cotton candy and freaking out about the weather, and the Sakkaros asking to go home early because of a storm.
200
This is the Sakkaros favorite thing to eat?
What is cotton candy?
200
This is when events in a story occur in order according to time. (for example, the events in Rain, Rain, Go Away take place in ___[this]___ order).
What is 'chronological' or 'chronology'?
200
This means 'careful about details'.
What is 'meticulous'?
300
This is the country where the author was born.
What is the Soviet Union.
300
This is the theme of the story.
What is 'do not be nosy'?
300
The Sakkaro boy's favorite pastime.
What is bouncing a ball off the side of the building?
300
Adding this negative prefix to the root 'practical' would mean that it was not at all practical or ____practical.
What is 'im'? (impractical)
300
This is 'threateningly'.
What is 'ominously'?
400
Isaac Asimov had a masters in this, which helped make his science fiction writing convincing and influential.
What is chemistry?
400
This is the climax of the story.
What is the point in the story where the rain starts to fall?
400
This is what Mr. Wright and Mr. Sakkaro have in common.
What is 'neither leave home for work'?
400
This word means 'moving away from the center'.
What is 'centrifugal'?
400
This means 'artificial behavior to impress others'?
What is 'affectation'?
500
This is the reason we spend time learning about the authors of stories.
Knowing about a person who is writing helps us understand the work. In turn, this can help us find out why what they did is important and if we should listen to them at all. Why does this matter for this class?
500
This is the conflict in the story.
What is 'Mrs. Wright vs. the Sakkaros', or 'Mrs. Wright wants to find out why her neighbors act so strangely'?
500
This is the saying Mrs. Wright says at the very end of the story that proves to be true about the Sakkaros. It is also the resolution.
What is 'you would think they were made of sugar and afraid they would melt'?
500
This is the falling action in the story.
What is 'the Sakkaros melt'?
500
This means 'outward appearance'.
What is 'semblance'?