Hi Megan, welcome to IGRAINE THE BRAVE. Today you are going to begin reading the first two chapters

* "The Castle in the Woods" pp 1 - 8
* "Water Snakes and Fencing Practice" pp 9 - 15

These are short chapters in this book, so we're going to read MORE than one chapter per day.

REMOVE THE PAGE ON THE FRONT OF YOUR BINDER AND DRAW A PICTURE OF A CASTLE, AND WRITE THE NAME OF THIS BOOK (get some ideas from pp. 10-11) When you're finished, put it back.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING IN THE Q & A SECTION OF YOUR BOOK: Answer using complete sentences

1. Notice the illustrations throughout the two chapters. List what you see for the illustration on:/3
page 3 Where is this? Who is in the room?
page 5 What are hanging from the string?
page 7 How many animals do you see? List them.
page 8 What are these? (hint: see the description on p. ix)
pages 10 - 11 What are the faces called that you see on the front of the castle? What are in the moat?
page 15 What is his name? What is his special power? Who does he belong to?

Read the first chapter silently: "The Castle in the Woods" pages 1 - 8.

2. What did Sisyphus do with the spider?/1

3. Describe the castle using four sentences (see page 2)/4

4. What is a gargoyle? Look it up in your dictionary and write the definition next to the word in the dictionary section of your binder./1

5. Igraine's family owns the famous "Singing Books of Magic". What type of writing would you call Igraine the Brave?:(choose two)/1
a. fiction
b. nonfiction
c. science fiction
d. fantasy
e. poetry

6. Igraine's parents are busy in their workshop making a present for her. Why?/2

7. What does Igraine want to do with her life? (hint p. 4)/2

8. Igraine wears a mail shirt which protects her from injury. What does mail mean? Look it up in the dictionary and write your definition in the dictionary part of your binder./1

9. Who is Igraine and Sisyphus spying on? (hint: see page 7)/1

NEXT CHAPTER: "WATER SNAKES AND FENCING PRACTICE"

10. So far, how many days have Igraine's parents been working on her present? (p.9)/1

11. Albert, Igraine's brother, isn't a good magic cook. What does he prepare for her to feed to her water snakes? (see p. 10)/1

12. Igraine is interested in some things that belonged to her great-grandfather Pelleas. what are they? List them.(p.13)/1

13. Igraine fences with a gift from her parents for her 8th birthday. What is it? (p. 14) What does fence, used as a verb, mean? Look this up in your dictionary and write the definition in the dictionary part of your binder./2

14. Igraine can see her neighbor from her castle. What is the name of that castle and who lives there? /1

15. The neighbor loves spicy mead. Look up mead in you dictionary and write the definition in the dictionary part of your binder./1

16. What began to roar at the end of this chapter? (hint: p. 15 also, there's a picture of them on p. 11 above the castle's entrance)/1

EFFORT: 16 TOTAL POSSIBLE TICKETS: 40