The Dog Newspaper - Literature

How does the author give more information about the characters at the beginning of the passage?

• by providing information on Uncle Bills childhood

• by inserting a flashback where BJ came from

• by summarizing all of the issues of the Dog Newspaper

• by describing different dog breeds and their characteristics

What is the genre of the selection?

• Realistic fiction

• Fairy Tale

• Autobiography

• Historical nonfiction

What is an autobiography?

• It is a story about someone's life, written by that person.

• It is a story that never happened.

• It is a story that might happen in the future.

• It is a story about the author's best friend.

How can you describe the narrator?

• She is a lazy person that hates her work.

• She is an outgoing, curious, and persistent person.

• She is not a morning person.

• She is a person that dislikes animals, specially dogs.

Explain why the local dog's lives are boring.

• They don't go for morning walks.

• Their lives are eventful.

• Their owners are boring.

• They follow the same routine every day.

What does the author mean by “showered him with loving attention”?

• He took a shower every day.

• Nobody loved him.

• She was not excited to have him.

• She gave him a lot of loving attention.