"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"

Conflicts

100

Why do the packs parents send their children to "St. Lucy's..."?

"To get braces...use towels"...Become productive members of society.

200

Why does the pack not want to be paired with Mirabella?

"The pack" will earn Negative Skills points.

300

Who are the two people that the pack hate, and why do they hate them?

They hate Jeanette because she is adapting the most and they hate Mirabella for not adapting.

400

Why does Claudette feel “a low mad anger at the nuns” when they announce the dance?

Claudette is not ready for the final assessment

500

What are some of the lessons the pack is learning at St. Lucy’s?

Prayer: "be kind to Gods creators", "bike riding", "manners" (etiquette)

Vocabulary

100

Shunned (v.)

Avoided

200

adapted (v)

changed

300

Lycanthropic

The delusion one is a wolf

400

catastrophic (adj)

disasterous

500

Jesuit- (n.)

Roman Catholic male order

Literary Elements

100

What literary element is being used here? "Before I could answer, Mirabella sprang out of the hall closet and snapped through Jeanette’s homework binder. Pages and pages of words swirled around the stone corridor, like dead leaves off trees."

Simile

200

What literary device is being used:"This wasn’t like the woods, where you had to be your fastest and your strongest and your bravest self. Different sorts of calculations were required to survive at the Home."?

Foreshadowing

300

What literary device is Russell using:We were greeted by blasts of a saxophone, and fizzy pink drinks, and the brothers.

Onomatopoeia

400

What literary device is being used: "They unslatted the windows at night, so that long fingers of moonlight beckoned us from the woods."?

Personification

500

What does Russell develop in the excerpt: "We sang at the chapel annexed to the Halfway House every morning. We understood that this was the humans’ moon, the place for howling beyond purpose. Not for mating, not for hunting, not for fighting, not for anything but the sound itself. And we’d howl along with the choir, hurling every pitted thing within us at the stained glass."

A symbol

"Who Said It?"

100

"HWRHA! GWARR! TRRRRRRR!"

Mirabella

200

“What lovely weather we’ve been having!”

Claudette

300

"Yesssss...It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas"

Kyle or the brothers at the party

400

Stage 1 can be a little overstimulating for the girls.

Sister Josephine

500

“I’ll wait out here,” ...leaning on a blue elm and lighting a cigarette."

Woodmen or Guide

HOT Q

100

One Sunday near the end of my time at St. Lucy’s, the sisters gave me a special pass to go visit the parents. The woodsman had to accompany me; I couldn’t remember how to find the way back on my own. I wore my best dress and brought along some prosciutto and dill pickles in the picnic basket. We crunched through the fall leaves in silence, and every step made me sadder. What is this excerpt alluding to? Hint: Fairy Tale

The Little Red Riding Hood

200

What technique is Russell using here: "In Copacabana, the girls are fat and languid and eat pink slivers of guava right out of your hand. Even at Stage 1, their pelts are silky, sun-bleached to near invisibility."?

Imagery

300

What do the girls lose by attending" St. Lucy's..."?

Family values, trust, kindness towards each other.

400

How could the pack be shunned by both species?

In the video there is a girl who did not rehabilitate successfully; she is shunned and has no place in the world. She lost her wolf instincts and cannot survive in the woods.

500

What is the significance of the author’s focus on scent throughout the text?

Scent is important because it's how the girls recognized one another, once they lose that they lose a piece of themselves. Scent shows ownership as well.