This is a phrase that we need to keep in mind: "Treat others the way you want to be treated"
The Golden Rule
100
This is a roofed platform around the outside of a house, which is level with the ground floor. Another name for this is a porch.
What is a veranda?
100
This is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like or as.
What is a simile?
100
This person is the main character in the story.
Who is Thomas Small?
100
This is the state where Thomas and his family are moving to.
What is Ohio?
200
This is a feeling of admiration that you have for someone because of their personal qualities, their achievements, or their status, and that you show by treating them in a polite and kind way
What is respect?
200
Spell and give a brief definition of...
What is S-U-P-E-R-S-T-I-T-I-O-N and a widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belie
200
This is when a reader uses context clues and prior knowledge to figure out what will happen next.
What is a prediction?
200
This person is a college history professor.
Who is Mr. Small?
200
This is known as The Underground Railroad
A network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada.
300
These are the three rules of the Middle School.
What are Respectful, Responsibility, and Safe.
300
This is A blue-flowered Mediterranean plant of the daisy family, cultivated for its edible salad leaves and carrot-shaped root. Thomas's grandmother used this to ward off bad spirits.
What is chicory?
300
This is an example of a literary term: "...needles were as large as railroad spikes."
What is a simile?
300
This is the caretaker of the Dies Drear House
Who is Mr. Pluto?
300
This is the way to get to the tunnel below the stairs.
What is the button on the oak door?
400
This is when you complete your school assignments on time and to the best of your ability.
What is being responsible?
400
This is an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster. Thomas's grandmother warded off this with a burning plant.
What is calamity?
400
The House of Dies Drear
What is the setting?
400
This is the boy who rode on the horse with a little girl dressed in red pajamas.
Who is Mac (MC) Darrow?
400
This is possibly a warning for the Small family to leave the House of Dies of Drear.
What is Mr. Pluto's rearranging of the furniture?
500
These are three ways to be safe at school.
What are staying in a line, not climbing on chairs, not throwing things, not going anywhere after school without your parents' permission, not tipping chairs, and not messing with others' chairs.
500
This is an ornamental design of four lobes or leaves as used in architectural tracery, resembling a flower or four-leaf clover. This was on the door in "House of Dies Drear"
What is quatrefoil?
500
This is an example of a literary term: "Their wings were blue and silver sails, like pinwheels."
What is a simile and a metaphor?
500
This person has several names: Sarah, Sooky, or Little Miss Bee.
Who is Pesty?
500
This are the types of stories 'The House of Dies Drear' includes.