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All Homework will be due to me by the Friday of Each Week.
Quarter 3: we will be studying Greek Mythology and reading Percy
Jackson and the Olympians: The Lighting Thief
Monday Feb. 13, 2012
All Classes: Synonym and antonym for each new vocabulary
word
The Lightning Thief Vocabulary Words
1. alliance ‐ an association of groups, people, or nations who agree to cooperate to achieve a
common goal
2. aura ‐ an invisible breath, emanation, or radiation; supposed invisible force surrounding a
living creatures
3. bewildered ‐ confused, puzzled
4. deflected ‐ turned aside from a straight course or intended purpose
5. hilt ‐ the handle of a sword, knife, or dagger
6. hoard ‐ a huge group honorary ‐ given, made, or serving as a token to honor
7. humiliating ‐ embarrassing
8. instinctively ‐ naturally
9. maiming ‐ disfiguring; injuring
10. parries ‐ to block or deflect the damaging effect of a blow or weapon
11. ruins ‐ to wreck; shell of what has come before; i.e.: what is left of a building after it is
destroyed
12. sacrificed ‐ gave up or let go of something one values for the sake of something that is of
greater importance
13. surged ‐ to move in or like a wave, rising up and subsiding and sweeping forward or back
14. taunts ‐ mocking remarks made to hurt or provoke
15. trident ‐ a long three‐pronged fork or weapon, especially a spear
16. warily ‐ cautious and alert for problems
Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012
All Classes: Sentences for each new vocabulary word
Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012
All Classes:Complete Study Guide Questions not you did not complete with your
group in class
Study Guide Questions:
Chapter Five
1. Describe Percy's dreams and what he sees and hears when he wakes up from time to time.
2. What happens when Percy wakes up?
3. Is Percy’s mother truly gone?
4. Why is Grover so upset?
5. What is special about Percy's drink and how does he feel after drinking it?
6. Where does Percy believe he is and how does he describe his surroundings?
7. Characterize Mr. D.
8. Who is Percy surprised to see at the table and what is his real name?
9. Where is Percy?
10. Describe Annabeth.
11. What does Percy learn about what is going on in his life?
12. Who is Mr. D and why is he at Camp Half‐Blood?
13. Where is Mount Olympus? Why does Mount Olympus move?
14. How does Chiron answer Percy's question about who they both are?
Chapter Six
1. What are the reactions of the other campers to Percy?
2. What happens when Percy is looking up at the eagle weather vane?
3. Percy is concerned about Grover being in trouble. What does he learn about Grover in his
conversation with Chiron?
4. What idea do you think is forming in Percy's mind about his mother when he asks Chiron if the
Underworld is real?
5. Chiron takes Percy on a tour of the camp and then to the student cabins. How many cabins are at
Camp Half‐Blood and what is unusual about the cabins?
6. How does Percy describe cabin five and the girl who sneers at him? Why is this significant?
7. What does Chiron tell Percy about other centaurs? Percy asks Chiron if he is the Chiron who trained
Hercules and shouldn't he be dead, how does Chiron respond?
8. Why is Percy placed in cabin eleven and who is Luke?
9. Why does Annabeth get frustrated with Percy?
10. What does Percy learn about the Minotaur and other monsters?
11. What does Annabeth tell Percy about cabin placement and why she is sure he should be at Camp
Half‐Blood?
12. What happens when Percy is introduced to Clarisse, the daughter of Ares?
Chapter Seven
1. What does Percy finally realize about his father and himself?
2. Who are Annabeth's parents?
3. What is the only way for Percy to learn the identity of his father?
4. How are the unclaimed demigods at Camp Half‐Blood like some of the kids at Yancy Academy,
Percy’s old school?
5. Who are the year‐rounders at Camp Half‐Blood? Why?
6. How can Percy get out of Camp Half‐Blood before the end of the summer session?
7. Percy remembers that Annabeth had asked him about the summer solstice and that he had heard
Grover mention it too, saying that there was not much time until the deadline. What does Annabeth
tell Percy when he asks what it all means?
8. Who is Luke's father and the sponsor of cabin eleven? Why has Percy been assigned to Luke's
cabin?
9. What did the Oracle tell Chiron about Annabeth's destiny?
10. How do the campers honor the gods?
Chapter Eight
1. What is Percy’s daily routine at camp?
2. At which outdoor activity does Percy do well?
3. What are Percy's thoughts with regard to his parents?
4. Why does Percy understand Luke's feeling of resentment toward his father, Hermes?
5. After the sword fighting lesson, Percy pours water over his head. What happens after he does this?
6. What has Mr. D decided with regard to Grover's success or failure of his keeper's assignment?
7. Why are there four empty cabins?
8. What happened when Zeus broke his oath not to have any half‐blood children?
9. What is the most serious oath you can make in the realm of the gods?
10. Who are the Big Three and why are their children different than the other half‐bloods?
11. Why is Grover concerned when Percy asks about heroes who have gone to the Underworld on
quests?
12. What two important things happen during capture the flag?
13. Why is everyone surprised when the hellhound attacks Luke?
14. Who is Percy’s father, and how is it shown to everyone?
Thursday Feb. 16, 2012
All Classes: Study for Test on Tuesday
Friday Feb. 17, 2012
All Classes:Study for Test on Tuesday
