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Homecoming Anticipation Guide
Directions: Read through each statement. In the YOU column, write
YES or NO depending on whether you agree or disagree with the
statement. Fill out the AUTHOR column the same way, predicting what
ideas the author will express in the book.
YOU
AUTHOR
STATEMENT
_____
_____
Adults always know what is best for
children.
_____
_____
Money is essential to survival.
_____
_____
You can always count on your family.
_____
_____
You have to trust people who you think
can help you.
_____
_____
Children can survive without support
from adults.
_____
_____
Food is the most important thing you
need in order to survive.
_____
_____
Education is not an important factor
when you need to provide for others.
_____
_____
Loving others means sacrificing things
for yourself.
_____
_____
Happiness is having everything you ever
wanted.
As you read, go back and mark any answers in the AUTHOR
column that you need to change.
Homecoming Study Guide
Part 1, Chapters 1 – 4
Vocabulary: Define the following words.
1. hereditary
2. abreast
Short Answer: Use complete sentences and write the page number
where you found the answer. Yes, you must write the page number.
1. Why was the Tillerman family traveling to Bridgeport?
2. How long did Dicey estimate it would take to walk to Bridgeport?
3. What story does Dicey make up about her parents?
Extended Response: Write 3-5 sentences each, being sure to fully
explain all of your ideas.
1. What does Dicey learn that makes her understand why Sammy
became less happy as he started to grow?
2. How did Sammy’s persistence pay off at Rockland State Park?
Homecoming Study Guide
Part 1, Chapters 5-8
Vocabulary: Define the following words.
1.
2.
3.
4.
convalescent
dinghy
conspicuous
turgid
Short Answer: Use complete sentences and write the page number
where you found the answer. Yes, you must write the page number.
1. Why do the children stay so long at Rockland?
2. What do both the mall guard and Lou and Edie believe about
Dicey?
3. What does James say is the only true, unchanging thing?
4. What did James do in the dormitory room that made Dicey feel
ashamed?
Extended Response: Write 3-5 sentences each, being sure to fully
explain all of your ideas.
1. How did Dicey decide the world was arranged that made it tough
for kids?
2. How did Dicey and the others make money to keep traveling?
Homecoming Study Guide
Part 1, Chapters 9-12
Vocabulary: Define the following words.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
amnesia
quell
devout
conjecture
conviction
prim
Short Answer: Use complete sentences and write the page number
where you found the answer. Yes, you must write the page number.
1. What did the Tillermans learn about Aunt Cilla when they met
Cousin Eunice?
2. What emotion did Dicey say that Cousin Eunice felt for the
Tillerman children?
3. What does Dicey learn from Cousin Eunice about her
grandmother, Abigail Tillerman?
4. What does Father Joseph ask Dicey if she is willing to do?
5. Why did the Police Department of Peewauket send Dicey $57?
6. Who is doing all the work in and around Cousin Eunice’s house?
7. What big problem is Sammy causing at the summer school camp?
8. What news does Sergeant Gordo bring about Dicey’s mother?
Extended Response: Write 3-5 sentences each, being sure to fully
explain all of your ideas.
1. Why does James like the school at the day camp in Bridgeport?
2. What were Dicey’s Crisfield plans, and what was the result of
James discovering them?
Homecoming Study Guide
Part 2, Chapters 1 – 6
Vocabulary: Define the following words.
1. tenuous
2. circuitous
3. reverie
Short Answer: Use complete sentences and write the page number
where you found the answer. Yes, you must write the page number.
1. What decision of Dicey’s disappointed James?
2. What did Dicey recognize in the voice of the storekeeper in St.
Michael’s?
3. Why wouldn’t Dicey agree to leave, even when she felt uneasy
about Mr. Rudyard?
4. How did the children escape from Mr. Rudyard?
Extended Response: Write 3-5 sentences each, being sure to fully
explain all of your ideas.
1. What does Dicey figure was the expense of staying with Cousin
Eunice? Explain.
2. On reflection, what does Dicey think she started thinking the
wrong way while they were at Cousin Eunice’s?
Homecoming Study Guide
Part 2, Chapters 7 – 8
Vocabulary: Define the following words.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
intersperse
askew
traipse
mirth
teem
Short Answer: Use complete sentences and write the page number
where you found the answer. Yes, you must write the page number.
1. How did the children get to Crisfield?
2. What was the word that occurred to Dicey to describe her first
view of her grandmother’s farm?
3. How did her grandmother surprise Dicey just as Dicey was turning
to leave?
4. How did her grandmother know who Dicey was?
5. What happened when Dicey returned to Crisfield for her three
siblings?
6. What surprising thing does Dicey find in the barn?
Extended Response: Write 3-5 sentences each, being sure to fully
explain all of your ideas.
1. Why does Dicey’s grandmother say she is glad her husband died?
2. What decision does Dicey make about her grandmother’s house?
Explain.
Homecoming Study Guide
Part 2, Chapters 9 – 12
Vocabulary: Define the following words.
1. tenacious
Short Answer: Use complete sentences and write the page number
where you found the answer. Yes, you must write the page number.
1. What question about her grandmother did Dicey start trying to
answer the first morning there?
2. What did the children’s grandmother say her husband did with
books?
3. What did her grandmother respond when Dicey asked if she
expected the children to stay?
4. How did the children’s grandmother introduce them to the woman
in the grocery store?
5. What major concession does the children’s grandmother make at
the dock?
6. What special question did Dicey ask her grandmother?
7. What important question did the children’s grandmother ask just
before they left the dock?
Extended Response: Write 3-5 sentences each, being sure to fully
explain all of your ideas.
1. What did Dicey and her grandmother talk about privately in the
kitchen late at night? What had her grandmother decided by the next
morning about the children’s future?