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Percy Jackson the Olympians

• The Lightning Thief
• By
• Rick Riordan

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Rick Riordan
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Chapter 1 I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra
Teacher pp1-15

• Vocabulary disgorge, scythe, dyslexia,
  materialized, frieze, pulverize
• Allusions Kronos, Titans, Tartarus, Kindly One
• Response
• Keep a character chart throughout the story. List
  both physical and personality traits.
• What type of a character is Percy? Is he like
  people you know? If so, how? Use evidence from
  the story to support your thinking.
• Is Percy imagining things, or did the episode
  with Mrs. Dodds actual occur?
• Keep a chart of allusions mentioned in the story.
  Make a connection between the story and the
  allusion.
• Also keep a list of similes and metaphors used
  throughout the story.

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Chapter 2 Three Old Ladies Knit the Socks of
Death pp16-28

• Vocabulary squall, confound, delinquent
• Allusions Chiron, Charon, Polydictes, Polydeuces
• Response
• What do you think Grover and Mr. Brunner were
  discussing about Percy?
• Who were the three old ladies knitting at the
  roadside fruit stand? And, why does Grover get so
  nervous about seeing them?
• What do you think the significance is of sixth
  grade?

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Chapter 3 Grover Unexpectedly Loses His Pants
pp29-43

• Vocabulary bellow, cloven
• Allusions
• Response
• Why do you think Percys mom, Sally Jackson,
  tolerates the negative marriage with Gabe
  Ugliano? Do you think he is the reason that Percy
  is sent away to different boarding schools every
  year? Add Sally and Gabe to your character chart.
• What does the coming storm symbolize?
• Who or what is Grover? Use evidence from the
  story to support your thinking.

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Chapter 4 My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting
pp44-56

• Vocabulary lanolin, bleat, minions, faltered,
  lumbering, chassis, pummeling, satyr
• Allusions Fates, Pasiphae
• Response
• Percys mom told Percy not to say the creatures
  name, that names have power. Make connections to
  other books or movies that have a similar
  concept.
• What attacked Percy?
• At the end of the chapter, who is the familiar
  looking bearded man? And, why does Annabeth say,
  Hes the one. He must be,?

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Chapter 5 I Play Pinochle with a Horse pp57-74

• Vocabulary reverently, recoiled, wistful,
  gingerly, pseudonym, metaphysical, incinerates,
  feigned, elongating, convergence, obliterated,
  facades, sinew, centaur
• Allusions Minotaur, Styx, Olympus, Zeus, Hera,
  Apollo, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Prometheus
• Response
• How would you be feeling if you had just lost
  your mother, learned that Greek gods do exist,
  and discovered that your Latin teacher was a
  centaur?
• Add new characters to your character chart.

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Chapter 6 I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom
pp75-92

• Vocabulary gable, mausoleums, hewn, barbaric,
  caduceus, sullen, dispel, primal, archetypes,
  ambrosia, sauntering, dousing
• Allusions Hercules, Hermes, Theseus, Fury,
  Hades, Ares
• Response
• Describe how Percy is feeling about being the new
  kid at camp and discovering that he is a
  half-blood. Connect to your own experiences about
  being the new kid at some point in time in your
  life.
• Who do you think Percys dad might be? Use
  evidence from the story to explain your thinking.

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Chapter 7 My Dinner Goes Up in Smoke pp93-106

• Vocabulary forging, demigods, marred,
  prophecies, omen, brazier
• Allusions Oracle, Naiads, Athena, Aphrodite,
  Demeter, Poseidon, Garden of Heperides
• Response
• Add any new characters to your character chart.
• Thus far in the story, what is the main conflict?
• What do you think the last sentence of this
  chapter foreshadows?

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Chapter 8 We Capture a Flagpp107-126

• Vocabulary carnage, befriended, warily, burly,
  maiming, liability, brandished, elated, trident
• Allusions Homer, Hephaestus, Artemis, Orpheus,
  Houdini, Nemesis, Fields of Punishment
• Response
• Why do you think Percy is so interested in heroes
  who have gone on quests to the Underworld?
• Why do you think Annabeth says that it is not
  good that Percy is the son of Poseidon?

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Chapter 9 I Am Offered a Quest pp127-148

• Vocabulary kowtow, celestial, usurp, proverbial,
  prevail, domain
• Allusions Cyclopes, Mount Etna, Hestia, Ithaka,
  Circes Isle, Land of the Amazons, Delphi
• Response
• How has the story changed?
• Analyze what the Oracle said to Percy. What do
  you think is going to transpire?
• Would you have accepted the quest if you were
  Percy? Explain why or why not.

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Chapter 10 I Ruin a PerfectlyGood Bus pp149-167

• Vocabulary drachmas, misnomer, propaganda,
  melancholy, careened
• Allusions Jason, River Lethe, The Illiad, Argus
• Response
• Do you think Annabeth and Grover suspect Percys
  real reason for accepting the quest? Does it
  matter?
• What does Percy believe the Oracle is referring
  to when it said, You will fail to save what
  matters most in the end,?
• Why didnt Percy save himself when he had the
  chance? What would you have done if you were in
  his situation?

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Chapter 11 We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium
pp168-187

• Vocabulary emporium, curio, wistfully,
  chastised, writhing, modulated, menace,
  convexity, petrify, impertinent
• Allusions Medusa, Perseus, Red Baron, gorgon,
  Persephone
• Response
• What clues in this chapter foreshadow danger?
• In this chapter, you are reminded that Percy is
  still just a child, only twelve years old. Do you
  think you could leave your life behind and go on
  a quest at your age? Explain.

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Chapter 12 We Get Advice from a Poodle pp188-196

• Vocabulary indignantly, pillaging, compelled,
  chasm
• Allusions Pan, Ephesos
• Response
• What do you think Percys dream represents?

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Chapter 13 I Plunge to My Death pp197-211

• Vocabulary accosted, berths, rabid, maw,
  plummeted
• Allusions Zephyr, Parthenon, Helm of Darkness,
  Chimera, Echidna
• Response
• Why do you think Echidna challenged Percy to jump
  into the Mississippi River far below to prove his
  bloodline? Why did she say he had no faith? Do
  you think Percy has faith? Explain.
• What clues foreshadowed Echidnas and Chimeras
  appearance?

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Chapter 14 I Become a Known Fugitive pp212-218

• Vocabulary trundled
• Allusions
• Response
• What do you think the river spirit meant by Do
  not trust the gifts?
• Do you think the gods are playing games with
  Percy? Sometimes he seems to be helped by them
  and other times they threaten his very existence.
  Couldnt they kill him if they really wanted to?
  So why is he still alive?

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Chapter 15 A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers pp219-241

• Vocabulary temperamental, defunct, filament,
  dousing, capsizing, trajectory, hefted
• Allusions Iris, Sparta, Cupid, Romeo Juliet
• Response
• Do you think Luke intended to implicate Annabeth
  of being invisible and stealing the master bolt?
  What would be his reason for doing so? Does it
  fit with what the Oracle said?
• Do you think Ares will help Percy now that he has
  retrieved Ares shield? Explain.

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Chapter 16 We Take a Zebra to Vegas pp242-265

• Vocabulary metamorphosis, trireme, dais,
  vagrants
• Allusions Arachne
• Response
• What do you think the dream represents? Who is
  the servant in the dream?
• Who do you think created the Lotus Casino trap
  for the heroes? Explain.
• Will the heroes be able to make it to Los Angeles
  before the solstice?

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Chapter 17 We Shop for Water Beds pp266-282

• Vocabulary shoals. compendium
• Allusions Nereid, Procrustes
• Response
• What trait did Percy use to get himself and his
  friends out of trouble this time? Is this a
  common trait for a hero? Explain by making
  connections to other hero quest stories.

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Chapter 18 Annabeth Does Obedience School
pp283-299

• Vocabulary barge, gilt, warbled, portcullis,
  queued, baleful, dissipated
• Allusions Charon, Erebus, Cerberus, Asphodel
  Fields, King Minos, Thomas Jefferson,
  Shakespeare, Fields of Elysium
• Response
• Do Annabeth and Percy have the right idea that
  everyone, even monsters, need a little attention
  once in awhile? Explain.

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Chapter 19 We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of
pp300-319

• Vocabulary impaled, obsidian, parapets, chided,
  predicament, portico, entrez-vous, lithe
• Allusions Sisyphus, Isles of the Blest
• Response
• Who do you think tricked Percy and why? Explain.
• Which friend betrayed Percy?
• Would you have left your mom behind in the
  Underworld? Explain.
• How will Percy get the master bolt back to Zeus
  in time? And, who do you think took Hadess helm?

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Chapter 20 I Battle My Jerk Relative pp320-333

• Vocabulary impeding, reconciliation, recede
• Allusions Ichor
• Response
• Why did Ares trick Percy
• What do Percy and Annabeth think is in the pit at
  the entrance to Tartarus?
• Who or what caused Ares to concede the fight to
  Percy?
• Predict what will happen when Percy flies back to
  New York.

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Chapter 21 I Settle My Tabpp334-353

• Vocabulary odyssey, evade, decapitated,
  precariously, hippodrome, emanating, defers,
  impudence
• Allusions Golden Fleece, muses, Lemnos, Ouranos
• Response
• What range of emotions do you think Percy felt
  meeting his father for the first time?
• Why didnt Percy use Medusas head on Gabe? Would
  you have made the same decision? Explain.
• Why do you think Sally didnt leave Smelly Gabe
  right there and then?

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Chapter 22 The Prophecy Comes True pp 354-375

• Vocabulary clamoring, constitution
• Allusions Nemean lion, George Washington,
  harpies
• Response
• In the prophecy it says You shall be betrayed by
  one who calls you a friend. Has the prophecy
  been fulfilled like Percy thinks? Explain. How
  does Luke fit into the prophecy?
• Annabeth once said, The real world is where the
  monsters are. Thats where you learn whether
  youre any good or not. Does this message have a
  deeper meaning?
• Would you have stayed year round at camp, or
  would you have made the same decision as Percy?
  Explain.
• Look beyond the heros adventure quest. What
  themes were revealed throughout the story? Which
  theme do you think is the most important and why?