My Side of the Mountain
The name of the main character
Who is Sam Gribley?
Is "I" the object or subject pronoun in the following sentence:
I went to the mall.
What is subject?
What type of figurative language:
She is fast like a cheetah
What is a simile?
Who is Ferber's principal
Who is Mrs. Collins?
I picked up a woozle and turned it around. What part of speech is a "woozle"?
What is a noun?
The age of the main character in the beginning of the book
What is 12 years old?
Is "it" the object or subject pronoun in the following sentence:
They carried it to school.
What is object pronoun?
What type of figurative language:
The moon smiled down on Earth.
What is personification?
Ferber's lunch lady
Who is Ms. Annette Livingston
I woke to an obnoxious sound outside my window. What part of speech is the word "obnoxious"?
What is an adjective?
The name of the trained falcon in the novel
What is Frightful?
What is the word(s) that could be replaced by "them"
The sixth grade student went to the store to get the tub of ice cream for their friends
What is their friends?
What type of figurative language:
Love is a battlefield.
What is a metaphor?
To the nearest hundred, how many kids are enrolled at Ferber Elementary?
What is 600?
What is the meaning of the prefix un-
What is NOT
The member of Sam's family that visits him at Christmas
Who is Sam's dad?
What type of pronoun is "herself"
The teacher herself graded all of the papers.
What is an intensive pronoun?
What type of figurative language:
Don't cry over spilled milk.
What is an idiom?
Name the five first grade teachers.
Otis, Opsteen, Zewicki, Ahlborg, and Palzewicz
The central point of a piece of writing.
What is main idea
Bando's nickname for Sam
What is Thoreau
What type of pronoun can't be removed because it adds meaning to the sentence?
What is a reflexive pronoun?
What type of figurative language:
There was a minor crisis.
What is an oxymoron?
When did Ferber open?
What is 1991
The effect of this sentence: The wasteful energy use of many Americans has contributed to global warming.
What is global warming