whirligig packet - Cherokee County Schools

MLA Heading: Whirligig by Paul Fleischman Book #________ Study PacketMLA Page #:
2. Brent’s second life begins or has its birth at the ________________.
3. _____________ begins at the moment of the crash.
4. Lea was an honor student, a member of the __________________ _________________, the orchestra, the
track team, and active in the _____________________ community.
5. He considers himself a ___________________.
6. He found the fact that he’d tried to _______________ __________________ impossible to share with a single
soul.
7. He mails an apology to the Zamora family. The reply came on Friday. How did the reply look?
_______________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
8. When Lea was a little girl, her grandfather made her lots of __________________ _____________. Her favorite
was a ________________________.
9. Mrs. Zamora bought Brent a _____________________ _________ pass good for ______________ days.
10. When he goes to the state park, he meets a camper from ____________________,
_____________________________.
11. When Brent hears the fireworks, he realizes it is the _____________ of ___________.
12. The first whirligig that Brent builds is a _________ _____________.
13. Brent places the whirligig in a ____________________.
14. He watches the arms of the whirligig spin and feels the breeze and the phrase
________________________________________________ traveled through his mind.
Identify the following:
15. Allusion (p. 34)
16. Simile (p. 35)
17. Karass (p. 48 – definition)
18. Raptly
19. Muteness
20. Restitution
21. Retribution
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