The responses for chapters 4-6 and the vocabulary are due at the beginning of class on Monday.
Please look at my example. I wish I could take credit for the Acrid O's idea. Be creative!
Vocabulary - Define the following words and note their parts of speech.
Chapter 4 Talisman
Chapter 5 Acrid
Chapter 6 Assayers, Promontory, Stymied
Chapter 4
1. Sloth chooses not to be a good Samaritan. How does she justify her decision?
2. The narrator states, “He sucked air, flooding his lungs with shining clean oxygen, starved for all the life he’d been sure he’d lost.” How do you interpret this passage?
3. What literary device is being used when “…the ship had vomited him into open air”?
Chapter 5
4. Nailer tells Sadna that he does not believe in the Fates. Is he telling the truth? Back up your assertion with text-based proof.
5. What happened to Sloth?
6. List three “lucky” gifts that Nailer receives.
7. On pages 44-46, we learn that the weather contributes to the irony of Nailer’s accident. How is the storm a source of irony?
Chapter 6
8. How is the weather personified?
9. Nailer thinks, “It would be so much simpler….” Finish his thought.
10. Nailer sees a clipper ship that is “So close and yet so far.” What does he mean?
