Ender S Game Reading Questions

Ender S Game Reading Questions

<p>Name:______English 8IA Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card INSTRUCTIONS</p><p> As you read each chapter of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, annotate for science- related ideas.</p><p> While you read, you must also answer two questions per chapter. On a word document, answer each of the following questions in complete sentences.</p><p>Chapter 1</p><p>1. Why does Ender continue to beat up Stilson even after Stilson goes down? 2. If you were Ender, what would you have done? Why?</p><p>Chapter 2</p><p>3. Why do you think Peter hates Ender so much? 4. How are Peter and Valentine different from each other?</p><p>Chapter 3</p><p>5. Why is Ender’s status as a Third a problem for the Ender family? 6. What does it mean that Ender needs to be “…half Peter and half Valentine” (24)?</p><p>Chapter 4</p><p>7. How does Colonel Graff turn the other boys against Ender during the flight up to the Battle School? 8. Why does Colonel Graff do this to Ender?</p><p>Chapter 5</p><p>9. How does Ender beat Bernard at the “war of the desks”? 10.In your experience, do kids really treat each other the way that the students at the Battle School do? How so?</p><p>Chapter 6</p><p>11.How does Ender manage to make peace with Bernard? 12.Consider this: Orson Scott Card goes into great detail about the Giant’s Drink video game, a game where Ender can seemingly only advance by killing or being killed. How do you think this video game relates to the story as a whole?</p><p>Chapter 7</p><p>13.Why is Ender transferred to Salamander Army right after he starts making friends and fitting in with the launchies? 14.What are three nasty things that Bonzo Madrid does to Ender during Ender’s time serving in Salamander Army?</p><p>Chapter 8</p><p>15.Why has Dink Meeker refused to get promoted? 16.A pattern is forming: what happens every time Ender is moved to a new place, a new army, a new environment? </p><p>Chapter 9</p><p>17.How do Peter and Valentine start taking control of Earth’s politics together? 18.What happens when Ender plays the Giant’s Drink game after receiving Valentine’s letter?</p><p>Chapter 10</p><p>19.When Ender gets command of Dragon Army, how does he treat Bean? 20.Why do you think it is that Ender treats Bean this way? What that tells us about Ender, and about people in general?</p><p>Chapter 11</p><p>21.How do the teachers make life difficult for Ender’s new Army? 22.What special job does Ender give Bean at the end of the chapter? Why?</p><p>Chapter 12</p><p>23.How does Ender manage to beat Bonzo when they fight in the showers? 24.How does Ender manage to win an unwinnable battle against the Griffin and Tiger Armies?</p><p>Chapter 13</p><p>25.Why do you think Colonel Graff and The Powers That Be let Ender see Valentine on Earth before he goes to Command School? 26.What does Ender discover about the dreaded Third Invasion of the Buggers?</p><p>Chapter 14</p><p>27.How does Ender pass his Final Test? How is this similar to the way he beat the Griffin and Tiger Armies at Battle School? 28.What does Ender discover about his Final Test?</p><p>Chapter 15</p><p>29.What does Ender do with the Bugger Queen Egg he finds in the old Bugger planet? Why? 30.What do you think this story is saying about War? In other words, what is this story’s Theme?</p>

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