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Morgan sends Jack and Annie to the prairie during pioneer times. They look for their third special writing and get caught in a twister with some pioneers.
Read one section at a time, then discuss the questions to review understanding. These questions are a starting place for conversation, not a complete test of the chapter.
Chapter 1
Comprehension questions
Why were Jack and Annie so excited it was Tuesday?
Page 4 — she was sending them some place in the tree house on Tuesday
4
Where do Jack and Annie need to travel to to get the next writing?
Page 6 — prairie
6
Jack and Annie traveled to the prairie before. What time in history were they traveling to this time?
Page 7 — period of the pioneers
7
Chapter 2
Comprehension questions
What type of vehicle did Jack and Annie see going across the prairie?
Page 10 — steam engine
10
How did families travel as they came to the west?
Page 12 — covered wagon
12
What did Annie see sticking out of a small hill?
Page 15 — pipe with smoke coming out of it
15
Chapter 3
Comprehension questions
What type of house did Jack and Annie see?
Page 18 — dugout
18
What did this dugout become when the family that built it moved?
Page 19 — schoolhouse
19
Who's the teacher of the school?
Page 20 — Miss Neely
20
Chapter 4
Comprehension questions
How many children were in the class Miss Neely taught?
Page 21 — 3
21
Who did Jack sit by?
Page 26 — Jeb
26
What was the poem Jack read?
Page 26 — twinkle twinkle little star
26
Chapter 5
Comprehension questions
What was the lunch Kate and Will shared with Jack and Annie?
Page 31 — sweet potatoes
31
How did Jeb react when Jack tried to share his sweet potato with him?
Page 34 — mean
34
Why can't Jeb come to school very often?
Page 35 — works in the fields
35
Chapter 6
Comprehension questions
What was hitting the roof of the dugout?
Page 41 — hailstones
41
How did grasshoppers attack the settlers?
Page 41 — ate everything, clothes, crops, sheets, trees
41
What was the special writing Jack and Annie needed to find?
Page 38 — Tis a lesson you should heed, try try again; if at first you don't succeed, try try again
38
Chapter 7
Comprehension questions
What color were the clouds when Jack and Annie left the schoolhouse?
Page 47 — greenish
47
What appeared out of the sky?
Page 47 — a twister
47
Why couldn't the children in the schoolhouse hear Jack and Annie banging on the door?
Page 52 — twister was too loud
52
Chapter 8
Comprehension questions
Where did Jack and Annie tell the children to go during the twister?
Page 54 — cellar
54
Who was the only one strong enough to open the cellar door?
Page 55 — Jeb
55
How did they know the twister was over?
Page 56 — noise died down
56
Chapter 9
Comprehension questions
How did Miss Neely feel about getting another school?
Page 60 — she knew they would
60
What was Jeb like when Jack and Annie left the prairie?
Page 64 — kind, friendly
64
Did the wind start to blow when the tree house spun this time?
Page 65 — no
65
Chapter 10
Comprehension questions
How did Jack do what the poem said?
Page 67 — tried again and again to be friends with Jeb
67
When were Jack and Annie supposed to return to the tree house?
Page 68 — Wednesday/ the next day
68
What was Miss Neely's advice about memories?
Page 70 — hold on to the good ones and let go of the bad ones
70
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