Percy Jackson Chapters 1-4

What kind of student was Percy?

• Percy was a student who loved to go to many different schools.

• Percy was great at school and sometimes stayed after to help his teachers.

• Percy hated school because he was awful at PE.

• Percy struggled to stay focused during school and was an average student at best.

What evidence supports your answer about the kind of student that Percy was?

• "But Mr. Brunner expected me to be as good as everybody else, despite the fact I have dyslexia and attention deficit disorder and I've never made above a C- in my life."

• "He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some sort of muscular disease in his legs."

• "One time, after she'd made me erase answers out of old math books until midnight..."

• "Like at my fifth grade school...And before that at my fourth grade school...And the time before that...Well, you get the idea."

Read the following sentence from the text:

"I got in the Camaro and told my mom to step on it."

What is the meaning of this idiom?

• To accelerate very fast

• To step on the car

• To get into the car very fast

• To step on the sidewalk

Read the following passage from the novel:

"O Zeu kai alloi theoi!" he yelled. "It's right behind me! Didn't you tell her?"

In this passage, what is Grover foreshadowing?

• Percy is about to attend a summer camp

• There is a storm right behind Grover

• The Minotaur is coming to attack Percy

• Nancy Bobofit and her friends are about to come and beat up Percy

In Chapter Two, how do Percy and Grover travel back to New York City?

• Greyhound Bus

• Gryphon

• Motor Boar

• Broomstick

In the book, Percy and his Mom go to visit a place that was very special to them. What is that place and why is it special to both of them?

• Montauk. It's the beach where Percy learned how to swim

• New York City. It's where Percy met his dad.

• Montauk. It's where Percy's mom met his dad.

• A summer camp. It's where Percy learns who his father is.

Why does the author include the following sentence:

"Newfound strength burned in my limbs --- the same rush of energy I'd gotten when Mrs. Dodds grew talons."

• To show the importance of adrenaline to the reader.

• To draw a comparison between Mrs. Dodds and the Minotaur and foreshadow Percy's fighting skills.

• To foreshadow a fight scene

• To show the importance of strength when fighting the Minotaur

Read the following sentence from the text:

"Then, with an angry roar, the monster closed his fists around my mother's neck, and she dissolved before my eyes, melting into light, a shimmering golden form, as if she were a holographic projection."

What is the meaning of the metaphor?

• Percy's mother wasn't actually there, she was a hologram.

• Percy's mother melted into a puddle.

• Percy's mother was transparent.

• Percy's mother looked golden before she disappeared.

What text evidence supports the type of Mythological beast you chose as the beast that Percy fights in Chapter Four?

• "Her eyes began to glow like barbecue coals. Her fingers stretched, turning into talons. Her jacket melted into large, leathery wings. She wasn't human. She was a shriveled hag with bat wings and claws and a mouth full of yellow fangs, and she was about to slice me to ribbons."

• "He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of 'Muscle Man' Magazine - bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin...snotty nostrils with a gleaming brass ring..."

• "It would've turned your blood to fire and your bones to sand and you'd be dead."

• "Her camouflage jacket was sopping and she smelled like sewage."

Choose all options that make up an accurate summary of Chapter Four

• PERCY WANTED to survive and escape from the beast that was tracking him

• SO Percy had to defeat the beast and watch his mom, Sally, disintegrate.

• BUT she had figured out Percy was a demi-god and was determined to beat him.

• PERCY WANTED to defeat Mrs. Dodds

• BUT the beast kept smelling out Grover, Sally Jackson, and Percy