Three Skeleton Key

What is a key?

• Something used to open a door

• Something used to grade a paper

• A small island

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

What is a synonym for incessantly?

• randomly

• occasionaly

• continuously

• accidently

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Name the element of the plot: Picture a gray, tapering cylinder, welded to the solid black rock by iron rods and concrete, rising from a small island twenty-odd miles from land. It lay in the midst of the sea, this island, a small, bare piece of stone, about one hundred fifty feet long, perhaps forty wide. Small, barely large enough for a man to walk about and stretch his legs at low tide.

• Resolution

• Climax

• Initiating event

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Name the element of the plot… We locked the door of the room on them, but before we had time to bind our wounds, the door was eaten through and gave way, and we retreated up the stairs, fighting off that the rats that leaped on us from the knee-deep swarm. I do not remember, to this day, how we ever managed to escape. All I can remember is wading through them up the stairs, striking them off as they swarmed over us…

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Initiating event

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What happens first

• The lighthouse keepers spot a derelict ship

• The lighthouse keepers spot the rats

• The rats swarm the lighthouse

• The rats eat all the supplies

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Whose idea is it to use Morse code?

• The narrators

• Le Gleo

• Cornelius

• Itchoua

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the main conflict in the story?

• Individual vs individual

• Individual vs. nature

• Individual vs. societly

• Individual vs. self

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the theme of the story

• Life is rough

• Be careful who you trust

• The truth eventually comes out

• Never give up hope

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

From what point of view is the story told?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person

• Fourth person

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which adjective best describes Itchoua?

• Cowardly

• Crazy

• Afraid

• Smart

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3