Study Guide
2013
Name:
Calendar
Monday
18-Mar
Tuesday
19-Mar
Wednesday
20-Mar
Thursday
21-Mar
NO SCHOOL
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STYLE EVALUATIONS
(SUBSTITUTE)
EVALUATION PARAGRAPH
(SUBSTITUTE)
DAY 2
25-Mar
1. SGP2, 4 - Quiz Chapter 3, 4, 5
2. SGP4 - Problem Statement
3. SGP5 - Impressions Chart
4. Read CH 6, 7 (12 pp, 31 pp)
Tuesday
26-Mar
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Tuesday
2-Apr
DAY 1
22-Mar
1. SGP1 - At War with War
2. Read CH 1 (8 pp)
3. SGP2 - Chapter 1 Journal
4. Read CH 2 (7 pp)
5. SGP2 - Discuss Chapter 2 ?s
6. Read CH 3 (11 pp)
7. SGP3 - Monitor the Situation
8. Read CH 4, 5 (10 pp, 17 pp)
Friday
29-Mar
DAY 3
27-Mar
1. SGP5 - Quiz Chapter 6, 7
2. SGP5 - Character Burger
3. SGP6 - Soldier Web
4. Read CH 8 (23 pp)
DAY 4
28-Mar
1. SGP6 - Quiz Chapter 8
2. Read CH 9, 10 (34 pp, 19 pp)
DAY 7
4-Apr
1. SGP8 - Quiz Chapter 12
2. Read CH 13 (28 pp)
DAY 8
5-Apr
1. SGP8 - Quiz Chapter 13
2. SGP9 - It's Like This Test
3. Read CH 14 (50 pp)
DAY 9
11-Apr
1. SGP9 - Quiz Chapter 14
2. Read CH 15 (21 pp)
DAY 10
12-Apr
1. SGP10 - Quiz Chapter 15
2. SGP10 - After Reading ?s
3. Final Test on Monday 4/15/13
DAY 5
1-Apr
1. SGP6, 7 - Quiz Chapter 9, 10
2. SGP7 - Characteristic Chart
3. Read CH 11 (27 pp)
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DAY 6
3-Apr
1. SGP7 - Quiz on Chapter 11
2. SGP8 - True or False Test
3. Read CH 12 (27 pp)
Monday
8-Apr
Tuesday
9-Apr
Wednesday
10-Apr
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AIMS MATH
AIMS SCIENCE
NO SCHOOL
Chapter 1: Third
1. Each chapter begins with a brief dialogue between unseen people. In this dialogue, you can find a purpose
for reading the chapter. What questions are raised in your mind as you read the introduction? How are
your questions answered?
2. Discuss the significance of Ender’s monitor.
3. Discuss the problems Ender faces as a "third."
On the lines below, write a diary entry from Ender’s point of view after his fight with Stilson. How is he
feeling? Diary entries should reflect feelings and thoughts about a person or situation [4-5 sentences].
Chapter 2: Peter
1. Describe Peter. How does he feel about Ender? How does his description change through the chapter?
2. "Buggers" is the word used to refer to the aliens that have attacked the earth on two previous occasions.
Describe the buggers as you understand them from this chapter.
Chapter 3: Graff
1. What does it first seem Graff has arrived to do? What does he really want?
2. Graff says Ender must volunteer to go to Battle School, and he personally tells Ender many reasons which
might convince Ender not to go. What aspects of Battle School does Graff warn Ender about?
3. Describe Valentine. How does she feel about Ender? Why wasn’t she chosen for Battle School?
Chapter 4: Launch
1. How does Ender differ from the other nineteen boys in his launch group?
2. What effect does Graff’s assertion that Ender will be a commander while the other boys are still learning
have? How does Ender feel about this statement?
Chapter 5: Games
1. Who is Dap? Why is he important to the Launchies?
2. What advice does Mick give Ender? How does Ender feel about Mick?
3. Who becomes Ender’s first friend? Under what circumstances?
Examine Ender’s methods of problem solving by filling out the organizer below after reading chapters 1-5.
Record your impressions about Orson Scott Card’s techniques of characterization. How has he introduced
readers to each of the characters in Ender’s Game listed in the left column below? Write a few words from
the novel in the appropriate column to describe the character.
Character
Physical Description
Speech and/or Actions
Thoughts
Ender
Peter
Valentine
Colonel Graff
Dap
Chapter 6 The Giant’s Drink
1. Describe the battleroom. What importance do gravity, lasers, and spacesuits have there?
2. How do Ender and Alai become friends? What is surprising about Ender’s friendship with Alai?
3. Describe the computer game. Why can’t Ender beat the giant at first? How does he eventually win? What
lesson does this teach Ender?
Chapter 7: Salamander
1. How did Ender defeat the computer’s security system? What does this indicate about Ender?
2. Why is Ender promoted? What is surprising about his promotion?
3. Why is Petra Arkanian the wrong kind of friend to have? What valuable skill does she teach Ender?
4. What lessons does Ender learn from Bonzo Madrid about being a commander? What instructions does
Bonzo give Ender concerning battles?
5. Why are adults
the real enemies?
6. Why does Ender
become suddenly
homesick?
Directions: Complete the
burger analysis to analyze a
character in Ender’s Game.
Write in complete sentences.
Bread: Topic/Concluding
sentences
Toppings: Details/specifics that
add to the overall “flavor”
Meat: Give evidence of the
character traits chosen.
Chapter 8: Rat
1. How is Rat Army different from Salamander?
2. What surprising information does Dink Meeker relay to Ender?
3. Why is Ender’s feet-first attack position so effective in battle?
4. Describe where Ender is in the computer game. What does he see in the mirror after he defeats the snake?
How does he react?
Chapter 9: Locke and Demosthenes
1. Explain how the following people perceive Peter: his parents? his teachers? Valentine?
2. What is Peter’s plan to change the world? How does he manipulate Valentine into helping him? What is
her role in his scheme?
3. What is Peter’s "greatest gift"?
4. What do the names that Peter and Valentine establish for themselves on the net mean? Why do they use
false identities?
5. How has Ender gained the respect of everyone at Battle School? What has he lost?
6. Describe THE END OF THE WORLD on Ender’s computer game. What part of the game can he not defeat?
7. Why, according to Valentine, does Ender see Peter in the mirror?
Chapter 10: Dragon
1. What army is Ender given command of? Why was this name retired in the past?
2. Why did Graff give Ender all new soldiers he had not worked with before?
3. In what ways does Ender treat Bean exactly the way Graff treated Ender when he came to battle School?
4. How does Ender’s discussion with Bean show what he has learned from Graff?
Complete the chart below after reading chapter 10.
How is Dragon Army – under commander Ender Wiggin – different from the usual armies at Battle School?
Characteristic
Explanation
Composition
Transfers
Ages
Attitude
Chapter 11: Veni Vidi Vici
1. What lessons does Ender learn from his battle with Rabbit Army?
2. How does Ender inspire confidence and loyalty in the soldiers in his army?
3. Why does Ender begin to watch the propaganda videos from the First and Second Invasions?
4. Describe Dragon’s battle with Salamander. How does Ender insult Bonzo Madrid’s Spanish honor?
5. What does Ender ask Bean to do? Why does he choose Bean for this task?
6. Choose two characters that you have met so far. Who would you cast in a movie version of Ender’s Game
for these characters? Why would you choose those actors?
Chapter 12: Bonzo
1. Why won’t the adults save Ender from Bonzo? Does Ender think the teachers will save him from danger?
2. How many boys come to beat Ender up in the shower? How does Ender control the situation so he only
has to fight one?
3. Who comes to save Ender? How does his intervention ensure Ender’s death?
4. How is the fight with Bonzo similar to the earlier fight with Stilson?
5. What happens to all of the soldiers in Dragon Army? What happens to Ender?
Chapter 13: Valentine
1. Why has Ender been on earth for two months instead of the originally planned three days?
2. Why does Ender hate himself? After you have this answer, think about it for a few moments and explain
how you feel about what has been done to Ender.
3. Summarize the information Graff shares with Ender about the Buggers.
4. What is the Third Invasion? What does everyone else think it is?
5. What does an ansible do?
Chapter 14: Ender’s Teacher
1. What is the simulator? Explain how it develops throughout this chapter.
2. Who is Ender’s teacher? Why was he chosen? How does he explain the fact that he is still alive?
3. Why does Mazer Rackham say that "there is no teacher but the enemy"?
4. Why does Mazer Rackham beat Ender physically? What lesson is he trying to teach?
5. How did Mazer Rackham defeat the buggers in the Second Invasion?
6. What, according to Mazer, are Ender’s advantages and disadvantages when he faces the bugger fleet?
7. "But as their trust in Ender as a commander grew their friendship...gradually disappeared....Ender was
their teacher and commander, as distant from them as Mazer was from him." Why must Ender be isolated
from friends? What dangers could arise from having "friendship" with those you must lead?
8. Describe Ender’s "final examination." How does Ender win? How is this victory like every other victory he
has ever had? What does Ender discover after it is done? Were you surprised?
Chapter 15: Speaker for the Dead
1. Why can’t Ender come back to earth?
2. What happens to Locke and Demosthenes?
3. Why does Ender want to go to the buggers’ home world?
4. How did the buggers control Ender’s computer game? What does he find when he looks behind the
mirror?
5. Why does Ender refer to himself as Speaker for the Dead? Whose deaths does he speak?
6. What mission does Ender go on at the end of the book?
After Reading: Literary Response
A. Choose one of the prompts below and write a 1-2 page response, using specific evidence from the book
to back your points.
B. What does the author say about relationships between people? What kinds of relationships are described
in the novel? How does the story deal with emotions of love or friendship between two people? Are there
difficult relationships being portrayed? How do the characters deal with it?
C. Explain how war or human conflict occur in the story. What are the circumstances? What are the author’s
attitudes concerning the justification of human violent conflict?
D. Does friendship and/or peer pressure play a role in this story? Is it a positive or negative role? How do the
characters deal with it?
E. Is courage displayed by any of the characters? Describe that courage and your response to it. What does
the author seem to be saying about courage? Explain.
F. Are there issues of justice or injustice discussed in the book? What does the author seem to be saying
about how to deal with these issues?
G. Is genocide, or in the case of Ender's Game where an entire alien race is annihilated, xenocide, ever
justified? Was the xenocide of the buggers inevitable?
H. What are the science fictional elements of this novel? Why is it categorized as science fiction?