Transcript Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson & the
Olympians
The Lightning Thief
By
Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan
Chapter 1: I Accidentally Vaporize
My Pre-Algebra Teacher pp1-15
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Vocabulary: disgorge, scythe, dyslexia, materialized, frieze,
pulverize
Allusions: Kronos, Titans, Tartarus, Kindly One
Response:
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Keep a character chart throughout the story. List both physical and
personality traits.
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What type of a character is Percy? Is he like people you know? If so, how?
Use evidence from the story to support your thinking.
Is Percy imagining things, or did the episode with Mrs. Dodds actual occur?
Keep a chart of allusions mentioned in the story. Make a connection
between the story and the allusion.
Also keep a list of similes and metaphors used throughout the story.
Chapter 2: Three Old Ladies Knit the
Socks of Death pp16-28
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Vocabulary: squall, confound, delinquent
Allusions: Chiron, Charon, Polydictes, Polydeuces
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What do you think Grover and Mr. Brunner were discussing
about Percy?
Who were the three old ladies knitting at the roadside fruit
stand? And, why does Grover get so nervous about seeing
them?
What do you think the significance is of sixth grade?
Chapter 3: Grover Unexpectedly
Loses His Pants pp29-43
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Vocabulary: bellow, cloven
Allusions:
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Why do you think Percy’s mom, Sally Jackson, tolerates the
negative marriage with Gabe Ugliano? Do you think he is the
reason that Percy is sent away to different boarding schools
every year? Add Sally and Gabe to your character chart.
What does the coming storm symbolize?
Who or what is Grover? Use evidence from the story to
support your thinking.
Chapter 4: My Mother Teaches Me
Bullfighting pp44-56
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Vocabulary: lanolin, bleat, minions, faltered, lumbering,
chassis, pummeling, satyr
Allusions: Fates, Pasiphae
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Percy’s mom told Percy not to say the creature’s name, that
names have power. Make connections to other books or
movies that have a similar concept.
What attacked Percy?
At the end of the chapter, who is the familiar looking
bearded man? And, why does Annabeth say, “He’s the one.
He must be,”?
Chapter 5: I Play Pinochle with a
Horse pp57-74
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Vocabulary: reverently, recoiled, wistful, gingerly,
pseudonym, metaphysical, incinerates, feigned,
elongating, convergence, obliterated, facades, sinew,
centaur
Allusions: Minotaur, Styx, Olympus, Zeus, Hera,
Apollo, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Prometheus
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How would you be feeling if you had just lost your mother,
learned that Greek gods do exist, and discovered that your
Latin teacher was a centaur?
Add new characters to your character chart.
Chapter 6: I Become Supreme Lord
of the Bathroom pp75-92
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Vocabulary: gable, mausoleums, hewn, barbaric,
caduceus, sullen, dispel, primal, archetypes, ambrosia,
sauntering, dousing
Allusions: Hercules, Hermes, Theseus, Fury, Hades,
Ares
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Describe how Percy is feeling about being the new kid at
camp and discovering that he is a half-blood. Connect to your
own experiences about being the new kid at some point in
time in your life.
Who do you think Percy’s dad might be? Use evidence from
the story to explain your thinking.
Chapter 7: My Dinner Goes Up in
Smoke pp93-106
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Vocabulary: forging, demigods, marred,
prophecies, omen, brazier
Allusions: Oracle, Naiads, Athena, Aphrodite,
Demeter, Poseidon, Garden of Heperides
Response:
Add any new characters to your character chart.
 Thus far in the story, what is the main conflict?
 What do you think the last sentence of this chapter
foreshadows?
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Chapter 8: We Capture a Flag
pp107-126
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Vocabulary: carnage, befriended, warily, burly, maiming,
liability, brandished, elated, trident
Allusions: Homer, Hephaestus, Artemis, Orpheus,
Houdini, Nemesis, Fields of Punishment
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Why do you think Percy is so interested in heroes who have
gone on quests to the Underworld?
Why do you think Annabeth says that it is not good that
Percy is the son of Poseidon?
Chapter 9: I Am Offered a Quest
pp127-148
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Vocabulary: kowtow, celestial, usurp, proverbial, prevail,
domain
Allusions: Cyclopes, Mount Etna, Hestia, Ithaka, Circe’s
Isle, Land of the Amazons, Delphi
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How has the story changed?
Analyze what the Oracle said to Percy. What do you think is
going to transpire?
Would you have accepted the quest if you were Percy?
Explain why or why not.
Chapter 10: I Ruin a Perfectly
Good Bus pp149-167
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Vocabulary: drachmas, misnomer, propaganda,
melancholy, careened
Allusions: Jason, River Lethe, The Illiad, Argus
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Do you think Annabeth and Grover suspect Percy’s real
reason for accepting the quest? Does it matter?
What does Percy believe the Oracle is referring to when it
said, “You will fail to save what matters most in the end,”?
Why didn’t Percy save himself when he had the chance?
What would you have done if you were in his situation?
Chapter 11: We Visit the Garden
Gnome Emporium pp168-187
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Vocabulary: emporium, curio, wistfully, chastised,
writhing, modulated, menace, convexity, petrify,
impertinent
Allusions: Medusa, Perseus, Red Baron, gorgon,
Persephone
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What clues in this chapter foreshadow danger?
In this chapter, you are reminded that Percy is still just a
child, only twelve years old. Do you think you could leave
your life behind and go on a quest at your age? Explain.
Chapter 12 We Get Advice from a
Poodle pp188-196
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Vocabulary: indignantly, pillaging, compelled,
chasm
Allusions: Pan, Ephesos
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What do you think Percy’s dream represents?
Chapter 13: I Plunge to My Death
pp197-211
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Vocabulary: accosted, berths, rabid, maw, plummeted
Allusions: Zephyr, Parthenon, Helm of Darkness,
Chimera, Echidna
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Why do you think Echidna challenged Percy to jump into the
Mississippi River far below to prove his bloodline? Why did
she say he had no faith? Do you think Percy has faith?
Explain.
What clues foreshadowed Echidna’s and Chimera’s
appearance?
Chapter 14: I Become a Known
Fugitive pp212-218
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Vocabulary: trundled
Allusions:
Response:
What do you think the river spirit meant by Do not
trust the gifts?
 Do you think the gods are playing games with Percy?
Sometimes he seems to be helped by them and other
times they threaten his very existence. Couldn’t they
kill him if they really wanted to? So why is he still
alive?
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Chapter 15: A God Buys Us
Cheeseburgers pp219-241
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Vocabulary: temperamental, defunct, filament,
dousing, capsizing, trajectory, hefted
Allusions: Iris, Sparta, Cupid, Romeo & Juliet
Response:
Do you think Luke intended to implicate Annabeth
of being invisible and stealing the master bolt? What
would be his reason for doing so? Does it fit with
what the Oracle said?
 Do you think Ares will help Percy now that he has
retrieved Ares’ shield? Explain.
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Chapter 16: We Take a Zebra to
Vegas pp242-265
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Vocabulary: metamorphosis, trireme, dais, vagrants
Allusions: Arachne
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What do you think the dream represents? Who is the servant
in the dream?
Who do you think created the Lotus Casino trap for the
heroes? Explain.
Will the heroes be able to make it to Los Angeles before the
solstice?
Chapter 17: We Shop for Water Beds
pp266-282
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Vocabulary: shoals. compendium
Allusions: Nereid, Procrustes
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What trait did Percy use to get himself and his
friends out of trouble this time? Is this a common
trait for a hero? Explain by making connections to
other hero quest stories.
Chapter 18: Annabeth Does
Obedience School pp283-299
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Vocabulary: barge, gilt, warbled, portcullis,
queued, baleful, dissipated
Allusions: Charon, Erebus, Cerberus, Asphodel
Fields, King Minos, Thomas Jefferson,
Shakespeare, Fields of Elysium
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Do Annabeth and Percy have the right idea that
everyone, even monsters, need a little attention once
in awhile? Explain.
Chapter 19: We Find Out the Truth,
Sort Of pp300-319
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Vocabulary: impaled, obsidian, parapets, chided,
predicament, portico, entrez-vous, lithe
Allusions: Sisyphus, Isles of the Blest
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Who do you think tricked Percy and why? Explain.
Which “friend” betrayed Percy?
Would you have left your mom behind in the Underworld?
Explain.
How will Percy get the master bolt back to Zeus in time?
And, who do you think took Hades’s helm?
Chapter 20: I Battle My Jerk Relative
pp320-333
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Vocabulary: impeding, reconciliation, recede
Allusions: Ichor
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Why did Ares trick Percy
What do Percy and Annabeth think is in the pit at the
entrance to Tartarus?
Who or what caused Ares to concede the fight to Percy?
Predict what will happen when Percy flies back to New York.
Chapter 21: I Settle My Tab
pp334-353
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Vocabulary: odyssey, evade, decapitated, precariously,
hippodrome, emanating, defers, impudence
Allusions: Golden Fleece, muses, Lemnos, Ouranos
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What range of emotions do you think Percy felt meeting his
father for the first time?
Why didn’t Percy use Medusa’s head on Gabe? Would you
have made the same decision? Explain.
Why do you think Sally didn’t leave Smelly Gabe right there
and then?
Chapter 22: The Prophecy Comes
True pp 354-375
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Vocabulary: clamoring, constitution
Allusions: Nemean lion, George Washington, harpies
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In the prophecy it says “You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend.” Has
the prophecy been fulfilled like Percy thinks? Explain. How does Luke fit
into the prophecy?
Annabeth once said, “The real world is where the monsters are. That’s where you
learn whether you’re any good or not.” Does this message have a deeper
meaning?
Would you have stayed year round at camp, or would you have made the
same decision as Percy? Explain.
Look beyond the hero’s adventure quest. What themes were revealed
throughout the story? Which theme do you think is the most important
and why?