Jason Elliott - Flora and Ulysses Reading Activity Guide

Flora and Ulysses TheIlluminated Adventures Activity Guide by Jason Elliott Copyright 2014 SmashwordsEdition Jason Elliott License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoymentonly. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people.If you would like to share this book with another person, pleasepurchase an additional copy for each recipient. If youre readingthis book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for youruse only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase yourown copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of thisauthor. Reading Group GuideChapter one Get into your groups and discuss the cover.Write three words that describe the girl on the cover. (pg. 1-4) Discuss why you think Mrs. 1-4) Discuss why you think Mrs.

Tickham is notexcited to receive a vacuum cleaner for her birthday. HW: This book has won a Newbery award. Dosome research on the internet or at the library and write aparagraph on the Newbery medal. Some questions to consider: Who isit named after? How often is it awarded? What were some pastbooks? Reading Group GuideChapter Two Share your paragraphs with your group. Look up and define the following vocabularywords: Cynical Malfeasance High Jinks Illuminate Read and discuss chapter one through fourtogether in your group. HW Answer the following questions forhomework on your own.

Explain what the contract was all about? What was Alfred T. Slippers two jobs? What was the name of the bonus comic at theback issues of The Illuminated Adventures of the AmazingIncandesto!? How did Flora describe the taste of theSquirrel? Reading Group GuideChapter Three Go over and discuss your answers to thehomework. Discuss with your group what you thinkhappens to the squirrel. Vocabulary matching: ___ Recede ___ Oblige ___ Mundane ___ Tumor ___ Submersion A. make (someone) legally or morally boundto an action or course of action. sinking until covered completely withwater C. a swelling of a part of the body causedby an abnormal growth of tissue D. move back or further away from a previousposition E. lacking interest or excitement; dull Read chapters five through ten together inyour group. lacking interest or excitement; dull Read chapters five through ten together inyour group.

HW: Choose two discussion leaders to come upwith three questions answered in todays reading. If you are thediscussion leader, make sure you know the answer. HW (everyone in group) Separate a blank pageinto three columns. Write Flora, Floras Mom, and Ulysses separatedin the three columns. Start a list of describing words (adjectives)you could use to describe these three characters. Leave room solater you can come back and add more.

Reading Group GuideChapter Four Go over and answer the discussion leadersquestions from the homework. Vocabulary Fill in: use a dictionary or acomputer if you are unsure. Heinous Furrowed Emblazoned Occurrence Formica Stout He was a round and ________ Middle agedman. The old man ________ his eyebrow indisapproval. The girl committed a(n) ______________Crime. The ________ countertop was easilyscratched.

The words, Animal Exterminator were__________ across the side of the truck. Vandalism use to be a rare_____________. Read chapter eleven through fourteentogether in your group. HW Write a summary paragraph from thereading. (ONE paragraph) Reading Group GuideChapter Five Read and discuss your summary paragraphstogether. (Holy bagumba and Holy unanticipatedoccurrences for example) See if you can match up the phrases withthe super heroes. (Holy bagumba and Holy unanticipatedoccurrences for example) See if you can match up the phrases withthe super heroes.

Its a bird. Its a plane. Its_____________!! Here I come to save the day!!!____________ Its your friendly neighborhood____________. Cowabunga Dude! ______________ The caped crusader; the dark Knight___________ Mighty Mouse Batman Ninja Turtles Superman Mighty Mouse Vocabulary look up and define thefollowing words: Vanquish Hallucination Dictums Multiplicity Trauma Read chapter fifteen through twenty togetherin your groups. HW: choose two discussion leaders to come upwith three questions from the reading. HW: Go back to the chart with adjectivesdescribing Flora, Floras mom, and Ulysses you started filling outin the third lesson.

Add some new adjectives to the chart. Reading Group GuideChapter Six Go over and answer the discussion leadersquestions from the previous reading. Vocabulary go over and make sure youunderstand each words meaning. Arch-Nemesis - archrival, adversary, foe,opponent Humane - having or showing compassion orkindness Eradicate - destroy completely; put an endto. Neurotic - mentally ill Read chapter twenty-one through twenty-sixtogether in your groups. Answer the following questions forhomework.

Who are the TWO people Flora think could beUlysses arch-nemesis? How was Flora able to hear what her parentswere saying through the wall? Write a paragraph about how you think Tootiefeels about William Spiver? Use at least two examples from thetext. Reading Group GuideChapter Seven Go over and discuss the questions fromhomework. Read your paragraphs to the group. Vocabulary matching: ___ Obfuscate ___ Treachery ___ Surreptitiously ___ Outwit ___ Vengeance A. By stealth; secret or unauthorized;clandestine B. unclear, or unintelligible. D. D.

To defeat or trick (someone) by being more intelligent orclever. E. an act of harming someone who trustsyou. Read chapter twenty-seven throughthirty-four together in your groups. HW: Write a summary paragraph of todaysreading. Reading Group GuideChapter Eight Share your summary paragraphs with yourgroup.

Discuss in your group if you believe GeorgeBuckman will keep his promise at the end of chapter 34. Vocabulary look up: Euphemism Unremitting Read chapter thirty-five throughthirty-eight together in your groups. HW Answer the following questions. Why did Floras father run through the hallsof the Blixen Arms? How did Dr. Meescham recognize Flora? Why was Flora upset about the painting? Dr. Meescham describes growing up inBlundermeecen.

What is the part about her growing up that is hardto believe? Reading Group GuideChapter Nine Go over and discuss your answers fromyesterdays homework. Vocabulary Matching: Inconsequential Capacious Forestalled Melded Foreboding The sculptor has __________ modern sciencewith traditional art. When the Doctor spoke, his voice was darkand _________. The old friends talked about ___________things. The government __________ a riot bydeploying police to the demonstration. Surprisingly the airplane had a ______storage bin.

Read chapter thirty-nine through forty-twotogether in your groups.