Week One: Flora and Ulysses

What is the author's purpose for writing Flora and Ulysses?

• to persuade

• to inform

• to entertain

• to make you buy a new vacuum cleaner

What clues in the text helped you figure out the author's purpose?

• lots of facts about squirrels

• the characters were always talking about vacuum cleaners

• lots of facts about janitors

• the genre was fantasy, and the characters were entertaining, funny, and strange

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RL.4.1

What do you learn through the words and images on page 4?

• that this strange story begins with a crazy vacuum cleaner in a neighbor's kitchen

• that the Tickhams are aliens from another planet

• that this is a persuasive essay on why people need better vacuum cleaners

• that Mr. Tickham has a little mustache

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RL.4.1

Why might the author have used a graphic novel format to begin the story?

• to bore the reader to death

• to annoy the reader

• to grab the reader's attention

• to make the reader cry

What words on page 14 appear in special type?

• The Illuminated Adventures of the Amazing Incandesto! and TERRIBLE THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!

• fuzzy

• damp

• slightly nutty

Why did the author use special type for certain words on page 14?

• the author was bored

• to draw attention to them

• to be weird

• the author forgot how to type correctly

Authors use figurative language to create

• a trap for the reader

• drama

• a tiny pyramid

• a special effect or feeling

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CCSS.L.4.5A

How do the words poof and fwump on page 9 add to the story?

• they don't add anything

• they are sound effect words that can help you imagine what it would sound like when a squirrel gets vacuumed up

• they make it weirder

• they are the same noises I make when I am vacuumed up inside a vacuum cleaner

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CCSS.RL.4.1

What is an example of a hyperbole (exaggeration) on page 10?

• "Man, I sure am hungry."

• "Where's the food?"

• "Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel."

• "some six or seven thousand times a day"

How does hyperbole (exaggeration) help to describe the squirrel's personality?

• it shows that he is very mean

• it shows that all squirrels think about is getting food to eat

• it shows that he hates eating

• it shows nothing; he has no personality and likes nothing

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3