Bud chapter 3

Organize these options into the right categories.

Groups:

(a) Six was a tough age for Bud

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(b) Mrs. Amos control Bud.

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(c) Mrs. Amos is unfair.

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(d) Bud Caldwell

• Has a flyer that's important.

• Believes everything her son says without hearing Bud's side of the story.

• 10 years old.

• He experienced abusive foster families for the first time.

• His mother died.

• Sends him to the shed.

• Let's her 12 year old son Todd scare and hit Bud.

• Insults him and his "ilk"

• Taking his suitcase away.

• He discovered that his teeth were falling out.

• Holds a strap and threatens to hit him if he doesn't apologize to Todd.

• Carries a suitcase

The flyer is important because Bud thinks his mother is on that flyer.

• True

• False

Give an example of perseverance from either a movie or from an article we read.

How is Todd malicious or cruel to Bud?

Why do you think the author uses the word "gray" to describe the inside of the shed? "Gray rakes, gray fishing pole." This shows that the inside of the shed is ___.

Describe what Bud sees guarding the doorknob. Why do you think it was placed there?

What was the name of Bud's friend that he's thinking about in the shed?

• Bugs

• Ben

What made Bud feel calm when he was in that dark shed?

• Thinking about his mother.

• The light that shone through the hole he made by scraping the paper off the windows.

Why is his friend named Bugs? (page 23)

• He had a roach crawl in his ear as he was sleeping.

• He likes eating bugs, especially worms.

Page 25. What did Bud notice when he woke up?

• A vampire bat

• Mrs. Amos staring at him from the window.