Christopher
What does Christopher find confusing?
Metaphors and jokes
Define Context Clues
Using clues in the sentence to define an unfamiliar word
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.
Using this sentence, clever can mean:
A) Smart
B) Grumpy
C) Funny
A) Smart
Name the literary element used here.
"Siobhan has long blond hair and wears glasses which are made of green plastic. and "Mr. Jeavons smells of soap and wears brown shoes that are have approximately 60 tiny circular holes in each of them."
Imagery
According to Christopher, what type of novel is this?
Murder Mystery Novel
A word or group of words that have the opposite meaning of the unknown word ad can be found in a sentence are:
A) Synonyms
B) Antonyms
B) Antonyms
But he wasn’t called anything because this was an apocryphal story, which means that it is a lie, too
Using the synonym clue, apocryphal in this sentence means:
Not true
My little brother is gaunt- just so thin and bony!
Gaunt means thin. What type of context clue helped me figure this out?
A) synonym
B) antonym
Synonym
Pictures, visuals, details
A word or group of words that have the same meaning as the unknown word and can be found in the same sentence.
A) Synonyms
B) Antonyms
A) Synonyms
“Mother was only 38 years-old and heart attacks usually happen to older people, and Mother was very active and rode a bicycle and ate food which was healthy and high in fiber and low in saturated fat like chicken and vegetables and muesli”
Based on the clues above, you can guess that saturated fats are:
A) healthy
B) unhealthy
B) unhealthy
Then he said, “I strongly advise you to get into the back of the police car,"
Using the sentence, what does "advise" mean?
Suggest, recommend, tell someone something
Why does Christopher's father touch hands with him in the prison, instead of hugging him?
Christopher does not like to be hugged, so his father shows he loves him byu touching hands
“I said that I was not clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn’t clever. That was just being observant.”
What are the clues in the first sentence that let you know that observant means "paying attention to things" ?
I was just noticing how things were
Name the literary element used:
I think Prime Numbers are like life.
Simile