Wish You Well
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Wish You Well Chapter 1-4 Reading Questions Answer all questions in complete sentences on your ibook or on loose leaf. 1. Describe Lou. Use specific lines from the text and page numbers. 2. Describe Oz. Use specific lines from the test and page numbers. 3. In chapter 1 Baldacci uses foreshadowing to hint at something bad that is going to happen. How does he do this? 4. Which parent does Lou feel closer to? Why do you think she feels this way? 5. Where is the family going when the book opens? 6. What is the source of conflict between Amanda and Jack? 7. What is the tragic event that is the initiating event in the plot of Wish You Well? 8. Where will Lou and Oz be sent and whose idea is it? 9. Describe the condition Amanda Cardinal is in? 10. How do the children travel to Southwest Virginia? Who accompanies them? 11. What do we learn about Oz’s feelings toward his mother’s condition? What does this tell us about his character? Support with evidence from the text. 12. What do we learn about Lou’s feelings toward her mother’s condition? What does this tell us about her character? Support with evidence from the text. 13. Baldacci’s use of figurative language and description bring to life the characters and the setting. Find three examples in ch. 1-4 of figurative language and how its use informs the reader i.e. what do the examples tell you or show you? Be sure to record page numbers.
Wish You Well Chapter 1-4 Reading Questions Answer all questions in complete sentences on your ibook or on loose leaf. 1. Describe Lou. Use specific lines from the text and page numbers. 2. Describe Oz. Use specific lines from the test and page numbers. 3. In chapter 1 Baldacci uses foreshadowing to hint at something bad that is going to happen. How does he do this? 4. Which parent does Lou feel closer to? Why do you think she feels this way? 5. Where is the family going when the book opens? 6. What is the source of conflict between Amanda and Jack? 7. What is the tragic event that is the initiating event in the plot of Wish You Well? 8. Where will Lou and Oz be sent and whose idea is it? 9. Describe the condition Amanda Cardinal is in? 10. How do the children travel to Southwest Virginia? Who accompanies them? 11. What do we learn about Oz’s feelings toward his mother’s condition? What does this tell us about his character? Support with evidence from the text. 12. What do we learn about Lou’s feelings toward her mother’s condition? What does this tell us about her character? Support with evidence from the text. 13. Baldacci’s use of figurative language and description bring to life the characters and the setting. Find three examples in ch. 1-4 of figurative language and how its use informs the reader i.e. what do the examples tell you or show you? Be sure to record page numbers.