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Plot Points
Vocabulary
Literary Elements
"Who Said It?"
HOT Q
100
Why do the packs parents send their children to "St. Lucy's..."?
"To get braces...use towels"...Become productive members of society.
100
Shunned (v.)
Avoided
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
100
"HWRHA! GWARR! TRRRRRRR!"
Mirabella
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
Why does the pack not want to be paired with Mirabella? They will earn Negative Skills points.
"The pack" will earn Negative Skills points.
200
Etiquette (n.)
manners
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
200
“What lovely weather we’ve been having!”
Claudetter
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 does human trait does Claudette excel in?
Reading "I was reading at a fifth grade reading level"
300
Lycanthropic
The delusion one is a wolf
300
What literary device is Russell using:We were greeted by blasts of a saxophone, and fizzy pink drinks, and the brothers.
Onomatopoeia
300
"Yesssss...It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas"
Kyle or the brothers
300
What do the girls lose by attending" St. Lucy's..."?
Family values, trust, kindness towards each other.
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
400
Frog-marched (v.)
Arms held firmly behind the back
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
400
"DO YOU WANT TO END UP SHUNNED BY BOTH SPECIES?"
Video or the Slide show (Claudette was forced to watch)
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 are some of the lessons the pack is learning at St. Lucy’s?
Prayer: "be kind to Gods creators", "bike riding", "manners" (etiquette)
500
Jesuit- (n.)
Roman Catholic male order
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
500
“I’ll wait out here,” ...leaning on a blue elm and lighting a cigarette."
Woodmen or Guide
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.