1. Wonder: Start-Choose Kind

Auggie thinks he's ordinary. What does that mean?

• He's different than everyone else

• He's smarter than everyone else

• He's nothing like anyone else

• He's the same as everyone else

What makes Auggie extraordinary?

• He has a cleft palate

• He can't really smile

• He doesn't have "normal ears"

• He's had twenty-seven surgeries

• All of these things

What did Auggie's mom, Isabel, do before she stayed home to teach Auggie?

• She was a scientist

• She was an illustrator

• She was a teacher

• She was a nurse

A cleft palate is an anomaly; it's something abnormal. Which of these show a cleft palate?

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Why is the story about the farting nurse important? (You can choose more than one answer!)

• Because it shows how mean the nurse was and how brave Auggie's mom had to be

• Because it gives the story some humor and makes us laugh

• Because it shows that we can be wrong about people and should give everyone a chance

• Because it allows Auggie's dad to be the hero of this scene

At the end of Auggie's birth story, he tells us "Mom is beautiful, by the way. And dad is handsome. Via is pretty. In case you were wondering." Why do you think he says this? (You can pick more than one!)

• Because people must have asked him what they look like

• Because he is not, and he knows people must wonder if they also are not

• Because he knows most people would think someone else in his family would have deformities, since he does--it had to come from somewhere

• Because Julian asks him, and this is his answer to him

Auggie's dad says that he's not ready to go to school, even though he's very smart and tested very high. Why do you think he says that? (You can pick more than one answer!)

• He knows he's going to get picked on, and he doesn't want that to happen

• He wants to protect his son from the world

• He really doesn't think Auggie is smart enough for Beecher Prep

• He knows Via will be angry that Auggie is going to a better school than she is

There's a simile (making a comparison using "like" or "as" where Auggie going to school is "...like a lamb to the slaughter." What does this comparison mean?

• Auggie is innocent, like a lamb, and kids are going to beat him up

• Auggie is innocent, like a lamb, and kids are going to kill him

• Auggie is innocent, like a lamb, and the kids are going to be mean to him

What's funny about Auggie's new principal's name?

• It's Mr. Butt

• It's Mr. Fatz

• It's Mr. Pumpkin

• It's Mr. Tushman

Who's "Nice" Mrs. Garcia?

• Auggie's Homeroom teacher

• The principal's secretary

• Auggie's English teacher

• The Performance Arts teacher