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Ant's Eye View
Vocabulary
Inference
Plot 1
Plot 2
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What are the crystals?
Sugar.
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What is a scout?
A person (thing) that goes out in front of a group and brings back information.
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Why did the author use different words to describe common objects?
To show that it is the ants' view.
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Why does the queen send the ants to the house?
To find more "crystals"
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What is the first terrible thing that happens to the ants?
They get dropped into a boiling brown lake.
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Why do the ants think the grass is a "forest?"
Because for an ant, the grass is so tall. It's like a big group of trees for an ant.
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What does puzzling mean?
Confusing.
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Inside the house, after the sink, "a strange force passed through the ants." What was the strange force?
Electricity.
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Why does the queen want more crystals?
They are the most delicious thing she has ever tasted and she wants more.
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The ants escape one hot problem and find another. What is the second horrible thing that happens to the ants?
They are dropped into the toaster inside bread.
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What is the mountain the ant group has to climb?
It is the walls of the house.
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What does it mean to "stir violently?"
The stir something very fast and vigorously (hard, strongly).
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What is one possible reason the journey from the ant colony to the house was dangerous?
There are hungry spiders, they have to climb the wall and can fall, humans might come and kill them, etc.
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What are two other insects mentioned in the story?
Firefly, cricket, spider
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When the ants feel super hot, they find something to cool themselves down. What is it, and what happens to them?
It is the water faucet. The water is too strong so it hits them down into the sink.
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The ants go into the electrical outlet. Why?
The holes remind the ants of the warmth and safety of their own home.
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The ants were "surrounded" by a strange red glow. What is the glow and what does surrounded mean?
The glow is from the heating coils in the toaster and surrounded means all around.
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The story says the ants are in the woods and on a mountain. How do you know the ants aren't really there?
You can look at the pictures and see the real object when the ants use different words to describe things.
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How do the ants get inside the house?
They climb up the outside wall and under a crack or small opening in the window.
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The ants crawl into two nice looking holes. They are "stunned senseless." What does this mean?
They are hurt so bad they can't think, feel, move or do anything at all.
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Brown lake, giant scoop, round disk with holes, fountain, dark chamber. These are what the ants see. What are they?
Coffee, spoon, bread, sink (faucet), drain.
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I am so anxious that the wait for my turn is unbearable. Explain this sentence in your own words.
I feel so nervous waiting that it feels like I can't wait any longer for my turn.
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Based on their experience, will the two bad ants leave the ant colony again?
No way.
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Why do the ants decide, at first, not to go back with the other ants?
They have all the crystals to eat that they want, they won't have to go back and work, they can live forever like that.
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How might the ending of the story be different if the ants' adventure was more fun and less scary?
Sample: The ants probably would have stayed in the house. They might also have discovered lots of new foods to try like jam, bread or peanut butter.