THOSG 9-10

Open Ended

Review page 80-82. Explain why Nolan's afterschool research is so helpful to Sunshine.

Multiple Choice

Figurative Language: "'Something isn't right.' I bite my lip as I lean over to get a closer look. I can't put my finger on it, but something about the photo looks... off somehow" (82).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Multiple Choice

I can't put my finger on it means...

• Something isn't readily available.

• It's up to you.

• I can't recall or understand fully, clearly, or correctly.

• Loyal no matter what

Open Ended

Review page 85. Write a paragraph explaining how Sunshine knows that the little girl ghost did not drown during the bathtub incident.

Multiple Choice

Sunshine asks her mother if she really wants to drink coffee so late in the day. Her mother says, "Yes, Sunshine. At this hour" and explains that she still has work to do. The author writes, "I sway backward as though I've just been shoved, away from her. I'm not sure she's ever talked to me so curtly" (88). The word curtly means

• enthusiastically

• rudely abrupt of brief

• unenthusiastically

• nostalgically

Open Ended

Review page 84. Write a paragraph explaining why it was helpful for Sunshine to take pictures of her room.

Open Ended

Review pages 87-89, 9-92. Describe the peculiar changes that Sunshine is noticing in her mother's behavior.

Poll

Figurative Language: "A clap of thunder sounds in the distance, like maybe the universe is laughing at me for thinking that it might be sunny in the morning" (90).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Multiple Choice

Figurative Language: "I swallow a gasp, wringing my hands like an old lady who's worried about the weather" (90).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Using context clues: "I mean, it was one thing all those nights when I heard footsteps and laughter and Mom said it was just the wind, just branches from the Douglas firs hitting the side of the house - that was Mom just being her skeptical self. But this isn't just a little cynicism" (90). Cynicism means

• feminism

• criticism

• magnetism

• skepticism

Multiple Choice

Ism is a suffix that indicates a distinctive belief, theory, system, or practice

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Characterize: Sunshine is ___ when Sunshine realizes that her mother can't see the ghostly shadow in the picture. The author writes, "I look up at the ceiling, wondering what the ghost is doing up on our second floor, what kind of tricks she's played on my mother's brain to blind her like this" (90).

• suspicious

• understanding

• impatient

• optimistic

Multiple Choice

Characterize: Kat is ___. Sunshine tries to show her mother the pictures. Kat says, "It is nonsense, Sunshine, and I really wish you'd cut it out" (91).

• suspicious

• understanding

• impatient

• optimisitic

Multiple Choice

Figurative Language: " The shadow is still there, clear as daylight, and Mom couldn't see it" (91).

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

Open Ended

Agree/Disagree: Do you agree with Sunshine's explanation of why Kat can't see the ghostly shadow? Provide another possible explanation. The author writes, "I look up at the ceiling, wondering what the ghost is doing up on our second floor, what kind of tricks she's played on my mother's brain to blind her like this" (90).

Open Ended

Identify additional creepy events, and make a prediction.