Golden Goblet Chapter 1
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Figurative Language and Literary Device Directions: Identify figurative language or a literary device used in the chapter. Justify your answer. Explain what the quote means. (Use Your Notes to Help)
Quote Literary Device Justify Meaning
“…but the thought of Gebu , like the ache of a tooth, was hard to lose.” (pg.9)
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
“Already the metal was setting, the brilliant red-‐yellow fading to scarlet, then to cherry.” (pg. 7)
Sight
Taste
Touch
Hear
Smell
Golden Goblet Chapter 2
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Figurative Language Directions: Identify figurative language or a literary device used in the chapter. Justify your answer. Explain what the quote means. (Use Your Notes to Help)
Quote Simile Metaphor
Personification Hyperbole
Justify Meaning
“I’ll wager the snails will pass you by!”
“Ra sailed through the Gates of the West half an hour ago”
Golden Goblet Chapter 3
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Imagery Directions: Identify figurative language or a literary device used in the chapter. Justify your answer. Explain what the quote means. (Use Your Notes to Help)
Quote Sight Taste Touch Hear Smell
Justify Meaning
“Beyond the emerald fields he could glimpse the surface of the river, jeweled with sunlight.”
“Thanking Heqet awkwardly, he set his teeth into the crisp golden skin. Pure honey dripped into his mouth with every bite.“
“The shop’s hot odor of molten gold had given way to the fragrance of lotus and marsh weed, mingled with the familiar reek of the Nile and the pungent sell of natron and spices…”
“Yonder from the fields, like flute notes, sounded the creaking of the water wheel.”
Golden Goblet Chapter 4
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Imagery Directions: Identify figurative language or a literary device used in the chapter. Justify your answer. Explain what the quote means. (Use Your Notes to Help)
Quote Sight Taste Touch Hear Smell
Justify Meaning
“Ranofer face felt as if fires were burning beneath the skin.” (pg. 67)
Golden Goblet Chapter 5
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Figurative Language Directions: Identify figurative language or a literary device used in the chapter. Justify your answer. Explain what the quote means. (Use Your Notes to Help)
Quote Simile Metaphor
Personification Hyperbole
Justify Meaning
“Later, when the moon had climbed high over the courtyard wall, Gebu came home again.” (pg.85)
Golden Goblet Chapter 6
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Figurative Language/ Imagery Directions: Identify figurative language or a literary device used in the chapter. Justify your answer. Explain what the quote means. (Use Your Notes to Help)
Quote Figurative Language/Imagery
Justify Meaning
“ Pai pounces like the leopard of Upper Egypt, raining curses and blows …”
(pg. 97)
Simile
Metaphor Personification Hyperbole
Imagery “The whole street rang with the harsh clamor that issued from it, the clatter of chisel on the stone, …, granite shrieking against the rough granite.”
(pg. 88)
Sight
Taste
Touch
Hear
Smell
Golden Goblet Chapter 7
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Figurative Language/Imagery Directions: Identify figurative language or a literary device used in the chapter. Justify your answer. Explain what the quote means. (Use Your Notes to Help)
Quote Figurative Language/Imagery
Justify Meaning
“Tell me about the stonework. Come, don’t pull into your shell like a tortoise.” (pg. 107)
Simile
Metaphor Personification Hyperbole
Imagery “The whole street rang with the harsh clamor that issued from it, the clatter of chisel stone, hammer on chisel, granite shrieking against rough granite. It was different music of the little gold hammers as anything could be.” (pg. 88)
Sight
Taste
Touch
Hear
Smell
Golden Goblet Chapter 8
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Figurative Language Directions: Identify figurative language or a literary device used in the chapter. Justify your answer. Explain what the quote means. (Use Your Notes to Help)
Quote Sight Taste Touch Hear Smell
Justify Meaning
“The parched and wounded earth was rosy with the sun’s dying, and the Nile, shrunk to a red brown trickle in its season of death…”(pg.124)
Golden Goblet Chapter 9
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Figurative Language Directions: Identify figurative language or a literary device used in the chapter. Justify your answer. Explain what the quote means. (Use Your Notes to Help)
Quote Simile Metaphor
Personification Hyperbole
Justify Meaning
“…(he) fuming with impatience and groaning a little in spite of himself at the flames he had stirred to life across his shoulders.” (P138)
Golden Goblet Chapter 10
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Figurative Language Directions: Identify figurative language or a literary device used in the chapter. Justify your answer. Explain what the quote means. (Use Your Notes to Help)
Quote Simile Metaphor
Personification Hyperbole
Justify Meaning
“ He has a wife with a voice like the hyena.” (pg. 149)
Golden Goblet Chapter 11
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Comprehension Questions Directions: Answer in complete sentences.
Questions Answers
Why did Ranofer need to brave the dark streets once agan in order to obtain a torch?
Why was Ranofer worried about reporting Gebu for stealing the goblet?
Golden Goblet Chapter 12
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Comprehension Questions Directions: Answer in complete sentences.
Questions Answers
How did Ranofer learn that Gebu had found another smuggle to help him?
Why did Ranofer lie to Heqet and the Ancient?
Golden Goblet Chapter 13
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Comprehension Questions Directions: Answer in complete sentences.
Questions Answers
Why did it become extremely difficult and dangerous for Ranofer to follow Gebu?
Why did Heqet and the Ancient for go the Festival?
Golden Goblet Chapter 14
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Comprehension Questions Directions: Answer in complete sentences.
Questions Answers
Why did Heqet and the Ancient decide to leave the Valley before they found Ranofer?
What surprised Ranofer about the interior (inside) the tomb?
Golden Goblet Chapter 15
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Comprehension Questions Directions: Answer in complete sentences.
Questions Answers
Why did Ranofer worry that no one would listen to his story?
Why was Ranofer willing to risk danger to himself and his friends to enter the palace?
Golden Goblet Chapter 16
Reading Connections Directions: Complete each section in complete sentences. Making a Prediction
Asking Questions 1. 2.
Problem: Solution:
Connection or Comment
Comic Strip Summaries
Directions: Create a comic strip of four major events in the chapter using talking/thinking bubbles. Write a summary using two to three complete sentences. Draw and color pictures.
Chapter Summary:
Golden Goblet Character Traits
Directions: After reading the story, identify one character trait the main character and another character displayed in the story. Provide evidence and an explanation from the story to support your answer. Draw you interpretation of each character.
Main Character: Ranofer
Main Character:
Trait: Evidence (with page #): Explanation:
Trait: Evidence (with page#): Explanation:
Comprehension Questions Directions: Answer in complete sentences.
Questions Answers
Why did the queen agree to test the truth of Ranofer warning about the tomb robbers?
How did the queen reward Ranofer?
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Chapter 1 Vocabulary Worksheet Directions: Read the sentence and use your context clues to define the word.
Word Sentence Context Clue Definition
Dictionary Definition
Ingot
The boy needed an ingot to make the necklace.
Envy
I envy her for be able to cook really good food.
Apprentice
To become a clock-‐maker, you must first work and gain experience as an apprentice.
Brusque
The girl brusquely told her mother she needed to be picked up from school without even saying hello on the phone.
Ornament
Elaborate Christmas ornaments surrounding the mall.
Absurd
The parrot looked absurd dressed in pants.
Blunder
She went to the teacher to apologize for her blunder.
Crucible
The but gold bars into the crucible to melt them down.
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Chapter 2 Vocabulary Words Word Sentence Context Clue
Definition Dictionary Definition
Latter
If I had to choose between chocolate or vanilla ice cream, I would pick the latter. Vanilla is my favorite.
Jocular
The jocular student told jokes that made the whole class laugh.
Cowering
The puppy began cowering after the angry girl kicked him.
Aghast
Sam was aghast when the a snake fell out of a tree and landed on his shoulder.
Vindictively
Sally vindictively hid her sister’s favorite book after they had a big fight.
Jubilant
The jubilant crowd laughed loudly at the comedian’s joke.
Obliterated
The truck obliterated the side of the building when it crashed.
Mollified
The women was mollified after the computer company agreed to return her money for the defective stereo.
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Contagion
A contagion spread in school and soon everyone had a fever.
Ferociously
The tiger ferociously shook his prey to break its neck
Chapter 3 Vocabulary Words
Word Sentence Context Clue Definition
Dictionary Definition
Novice
I attempted to build a toy helicopter, but being a novice, I needed help.
Succulent
He took a bite into the succulent steak.
Insolent
They were extremely insolent to the performer. The audience talked while she was preforming.
Abide
The children have to abide by the rules of the school and the classroom.
Alcove
The painting was hung in a small alcove in the living room.
Furtive
The boy make a furtive attempt to read the note from his friend in class.
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Jostle
The excited dog jostled the boy around until he fell down.
Interminable
The boy thought his father’s long lecture was interminable.
Chapter 4, 5, &6 Vocabulary Words Word Sentence Context Clue
Definition Dictionary Definition
Yonder
The small village is over yonder by the mountains.
Snippet
Can you give us a snippet of what the surprise will be on Friday?
Endure
I had to endure the long and boring ride from California all the way to New York.
Authoritative
The principal makes the authoritative discussion of the school.
Devise
We have to devise a plan to give a surprise party for Jose.
Raucous
The football team was making a raucous in the locker room after they won the game.
Conspicuous
She was conspicuous by wearing that bright yellow outfit that everyone notices.
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Jovial
The jovial family was in good spirits and enjoying their Christmas dinner.
Destitute
We were lost and destitute in the woods. We had nothing for survival.
Obscure
It was hard to see the house from the street because it was in an obscure location.
Mutilate
My big brother mutilated my Barbie dolls by taking their heads off.
Descend
The submarine will descend 200 yards below the sea level.
Malevolent
The girl gave me a malevolent stare when I answered the question correctly that she got wrong.
Designated
We need to designate the spot where we are going to camp for the night.
Chisel
I used the chisel to curve my name into the plaque.
Indifferent
The child was in rapture when he got to go to the candy shop and buy as much candy he wants.
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Chapter 7, 8, & 9 Vocabulary Words Word Sentence Context Clue
Definition Dictionary Definition
Amiable
The amiable boy shared his lunch with the new kid at school.
Culprit
As soon as he saw the broken window, he began to look for the culprit.
Quarrel
My sister and I had a quarrel over who is going to seat in the first seat of the car.
Defiant
The defiant girl refused to listen to the teacher, when the teacher asked her to give back the toy.
Desiccate
The Egyptians used natron to desiccate the body for mummification. It took 40 days.
Abrupt
Her departure (leaving) was abrupt that she never had a chance to say goodbye.
Voluminous
Julie was upset by the voluminous amount of homework she had to do over the winter break.
Precarious
The man’s position on the rock was precarious and he started to fall.
Keen The man’s keen eye saw the deer in the woods immediately
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Chapter 10, 11, & 12 Vocabulary Words Word Sentence Context Clue
Definition Dictionary Definition
Doggedly
The boy doggedly practiced for the basketball try-‐outs because he was worried he would not make the team.
Intermittent
The girls were able to play soccer in between the intermittent rainfall.
Fiasco
The picnic was a fiasco – it rained, the tent blew away, and all the food got soaked.
Audacious
The man’s friends begged him not to try his audacious plan to climb the steep cliff without climbing gear.
Preoccupation
The preschooler’s preoccupation with dinosaurs was obvious from the dinosaur clothes, toys, and books spread all over his bedroom.
Rogue
The rogue planned to break into the bank and steal all the gold in the safe
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Tactfully
The girl tactfully told her friend her ugly sweater was nice.
Idly
The boys idly watched television all Saturday afternoon.
Convulsively
The nervous girl convulsively shook her foot while waiting to see the dentist.
Enigmatic
Everyone in the small town talked about the strange and enigmatic man who recently moved to the town.
Chapter 13, 14, 15, & 16 Vocabulary Words
Word Sentence Context Clue Definition
Dictionary Definition
Disclosed
The map disclosed the location of the buried treasure.
Furrowed
The boy’s furrowed brow told his father he was very worried about something.
Desolate
The desolate cabin did not even have any mice living in it.
Ominously
The lightening was coming ominously closer to the swimmers.
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Hordes
Hordes of people waited to get into the concert.
Consternation
The girl stared with consternation at the confusing math homework.
Transfixed The group was transfixed by the sight of the celebrity walking down the street.
Cumbersomely The boy cumbersomely tripped over his shoelaces and fell.
Retinues The queen was accompanied by her retinues, awaiting her commands.
Restive The restive toddlers could not watch the movie without running around.
Dubious
It is dubious that it will snow in July in Florida.
Futile
The boy made a futile attempt to open the locked car door.
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Citadel The soldiers guarded the opening to the citadel where the gold was stored.
Necropolis The huge cemetery was a necropolis with many gravestones.
Callous The callous people left litter on someone’s lawn after the parade.
Bedecking The kids were bedecking the float before the homecoming parade.
Insolent The insolent girl got in trouble after rolling her eyes at her father.
Plundered
The plundered jewels were hidden in a cave where the police couldn’t find them.
Overseer The overseer watched the workers build the pyramid.
Indifferently The girl indifferently shrugged when asked what movie she wanted to watch.
Coherent The baby’s speech was not coherent – it was just babbling.
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Pattering The pattering of the little boy annoyed his older brother.
Rash It is rash to speed on icy roads.
Timbre The timbre of the girl’s voice was whiny and nasally.
Exquisitely The Miss America contestants were dressed exquisitely in evening gowns.
Clad The kids were clad in Halloween costumes.
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Main Characters Character Name
Character Description (Traits)
Explain why this person is important to the story
Picture of Character
Ranofer
Heqet
The
Ancient
Gebu
