Coledale ELL
Knights of the Kitchen Table
Novel Study
Name: __________________________________________
This is an important project!
Please work hard on this and try to get a great mark!
If you need help, please ask your wonderful ELL teacher. …. or if you
can’t find him, I guess you can ask that Mr. C guy!
Comprehension Questions Chapters 1-2
Please write the page number to the right of the question showing where you found the answer.
Point-form answers are acceptable.
1. What do the boys see in the clearing? _______
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2. Why did Sam interrupt Joe’s and Fred’s argument? _______
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3. What does Joe ask the Black Knight? _______
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4. What does Fred tell Joe to do? _______
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5. What present did Uncle Joe give to Joe? _______
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6. What did Uncle Joe do for a living? _________
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7. What was special about the book? _______
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8. What did the boys see on the page in the book? _______
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9. What did Fred say after he saw the picture? _______
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10. What happened after Fred spoke? ________
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Comprehension Questions (Chapters 3-5)
Please write the page number to the right of the question showing where you found the
answer. Point-form answers are acceptable.
1. What was Fred’s plan to escape the Black Knight? _______
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2. What did Fred say to the Black Knight that drove him crazy? ______
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3. How did Fred defeat the Black Knight? _______
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4. Who came galloping into the clearing? ________
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5. What do the boys say that their names are? ________
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6. Why does Lancelot say that they need the boys’ help? _______
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7. (a) What did Joe ask King Arthur? (b) What did Merlin say about them? ______
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8. What did Merlin ask Joe to do? _______
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9. (a) How did Joe impress the crowd? (b) What was Merlin’s reaction? ______
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10. What news did the messengers bring? ______
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Comprehension Questions (Chapters 6-7)
Please write the page number to the right of the question showing where you found the
answer. Point-form answers are acceptable.
1. What is Joe surprised to learn about giants? _____
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2. What did Bleob look like? _____
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3. (a) What did Joe put on his nose? (b) Why? ______
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4. What did the giant do after Joe spoke to him? ______
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5. How did Sam trick the giant? _____
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6. (a) What was Sam’s riddle? (b) What was the answer? _____
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7. What did Bleob do after Sam’s riddle? _____
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8. How did Sam stop Bleob? _____
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9. What caused the explosion? _____
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10. What did Sam tell King Arthur that they wanted him to do for them? _____
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Comprehension Questions (Chapters 8-10)
Please write the page number to the right of the question showing where you found the
answer. Point-form answers are acceptable.
1. What game do Fred, Sam, and Joe teach the stableboys to play? _______
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2. Why don’t the boys like living in Camelot? _____
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3. What nickname does Sam give to the three boys? ______
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4. (a) What happened after Fred hit the baseball? (b) Who found the baseball? _____
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5. What names were the boys given by King Arthur after he made them knights? _____
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6. What did Merlin pull out of his robe (NOT the baseball)? ______
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7. What was shown in the picture? _______
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8. How much time had passed in “their” time since the boys had left? _____
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9. Why does Joe’s mother think that the book is actually a fog machine? _____
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10. What did Joe find in his pocket? ______
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Questions to Think About……. (and complete!)
Chapters 1-2
1. Pretend that you are the Black Knight and you suddenly see three boys appear. Write about what you see
and think (ex: how they are dressed, where they came from, what do they want).
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2. “Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.” What does that saying mean? Why would you need to be
careful?
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3. Compare how the knight was dressed to how Joe, Fred, and Sam were dressed.
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4. Compare how Joe feels about his uncle to how Joe’s mother feels about his uncle.
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5. What do you think of Uncle Joe?
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Chapters 3-5
1. Imagine if you were in Joe’s situation and you had to impress the crowd at the castle somehow. What would you
do? Why?
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2 . If you had to choose a “knight name” for yourself like the boys did, what would it be? Why?
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3. What do you think of Merlin? Why?
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Chapters 6-7
1. Pretend that you are a reporter for the Camelot Times. Write an article talking about the arrival of the boys,
the threat from the dragon and the giant, and what happened. Remember that you are reporting the facts. Also
remember that you are in the Middle Ages, not today.
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Chapters 6-7 continued……..
2. What would you do if you were faced with a dragon? What would happen?
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3. What would you do if you were faced with a giant? What would happen?
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4. Which of the boys are you most like—Fred, Joe, or Sam? Why?
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Chapters 8-10
Imagine that you went back in time and were living in Camelot. What things would you miss? Why? What would
you like about living there?
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2. What do you think Joe’s mother would say if the boys told her what had happened?
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3 . Would she believe them if they showed her the card that Joe had in his pocket? Why or why not?
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4. The boys taught the stableboys how to play baseball. If you went back in time to Camelot, what would you
teach people in that time to do? Why?
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5. What do you think is going to happen to the boys now? Will they go on more “adventures”? If so, where do you
think they might end up going?
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