Day of the
week
The Wonderful Flight to the
Mushroom Planet
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of
NIMH
The House of the Scorpion
Tuesday
1/26
Chapter 8 (part 1)
Chapter 11: In the Library
Chapter 10
Vocabulary:
Queried (56), frail (56), intricate
(57), lethal (58), unhindered (58),
spigot (58), unchartered (60)
Vocabulary:
discern (76), astonishment (76),
recessed (76), corridor (77),
contrary (77), inlaid (78), rarity
(79), hubbub (79), dredged (81),
emerged (81)
Vocabulary:
wallow-92
soppy-94
enraptured-97
cutlery-97
arbor-97
harangued-98
braying-98
salon-98
summons-99
Questions:
1. Why did Chuck compare Mr.
Bass to Leonardo da Vinci?
2. What time were the boys
supposed to leave Earth to
travel to Basidium?
What time were they
supposed to leave Basidium
to return to Earth?
3. Why was it “absolutely
necessary” that the boys stay
on schedule?
1. Why doesn’t Mrs. Frisby
expect there to be light in
the rats’ home?
2. How did some of the
wives decorate the cave?
3. Explain the “annual light
bulb harvest.” p.77
4. What did Mrs. Frisby
experience for the first
time in this chapter?
5. Describe what Nicodemus
looks like.
6. How did Mr. Frisby teach
his children to read?
7. What are the rats meeting
about?
Predict what you think
their plan might be.
1. How does Matt describe the
way Tom was “looking” for
Furball?
Why do you think Tom gets
angry when Matt finds
Furball?
What does this text quote
imply? “Tom had wanted
something and didn’t get it.”
P. 96
2. Describe how MacGregor
looks and acts.
3. What shocks Matt (and
everyone) about El Patron at
the party?
How does El Patron explain
this?
How does he reward the
“miracle workers?”
4. Explain how El Patron’s
siblings died.
Wednesday
1/27
Chapter 8
Chapter 12: Isabella
Chapter 11
Vocabulary:
Barren (60), brisk (61), luminous
(62), vaguely (62), vain (63),
anxious (63), mascot (64)
Vocabulary:
explicit (84)
pry (84)
incomprehensible (85)
subsiding (86)
irrelevantly (87)
presumably (88)
Vocabulary:
ensconced-103
strove-105
fetal-105
immoral-106
edible-108
“toe the line”-108
coaxed-109
ricocheted-109
jovial-109
paralysis-110
repelled-110
Questions:
1. Why did Mr. Bass say that he
could not travel with the boys
to Basidium?
2. What did Mr. Bass have to
run and tell the boys not to
forget to take with them on
their journey?
What do you think they will
take?
1. What does Mrs. Frisby
think of the words and
figures on the board?
2. What does Isabella think
Mrs. Frisby is? Why?
3. What does Isabella think
of Justin?
4. What do you think Nimh
is?
5. What do you think The
Plan is now?
1. Why does Maria get mad at
Matt at the party?
What are Matt’s two
excuses?
Why does Mr. Alacran say,
“That’s disgusting,” when El
Patron says Maria is Matt’s
novia.
2. Why does El Patron “set
great importance on gifts?”
3. How does he prove this to
Matt?
4. What does Matt ask from
Maria at the party?
Why do you think Senator
Mendoza doesn’t want Maria
to treat Matt rudely?
5. What makes Maria’s gift of
taffy extra special?