Pre-Reading Activities

 

Words to go over:

honor, bluffs, popped a wheelie, municipal, in tow, sparse, jaunt, get dibs on , exuberance, momentum, taunt, sink holes, two-toed sloth, gawk, glowering immersing, flailing, eddied, barrage, pivoted, clarity, convulsed, stifled, reverberated, nonchalance, semi, supplication, advertising circular, skeptical, starved, scorcher, tingled, drooling, resettled, scale, dense, whine, hovering, vermilion, cinch, solemnly, jubilant, redeemed

 

 

Thoughts for discussion:

What are the most important things in life?
When is it really important to help others?
Do kids sometimes expect too much of their parents? Give examples.
If you owned a nice new bike, under what conditions would you loan it out?
What are three signs of true friendship?
Do you always need to follow the rules? Is it ever okay to break them?

 

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