Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie Reading Guide Questions Ch. 8-9 and Ch. 10-13

Reading Guide Questions for Ch. 8-9 and Ch. 10-13 are due on Tuesday, November 18th for students in Homeroom 302.

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Chapters 8-9 (Pages 98-130)

Vocabulary:

coordinated

pathetic

edible

horrendous

catheter

Short Answer Questions:

1. Why was Annette worried about Steven?

2. Who had told Miss Palma about Jeffrey's condition?

3. Why did Jeffrey have to stay in the hospital for a simple ear infection?

4. What was so strange about the breakfast Steven and his father ate together?

5. What did Steven get his teachers to agree to before leaving the meeting?

6. How had Steven underestimated Mrs. Galley?

7. Why did Steven's mother pick him up from the dance in her sweatpants?

8. How did the E.R. staff react when Steven's mother mentioned leukemia?

9. How did Steven's plan not to tell his teachers about Jeffrey's leukemia backfire

on him?

Long Answer Questions:

10.Steven got his teachers to agree not to tell his parents as long as he agreed to

make up the work. Explain why Steven didn't want his parents to discover he

had stopped working in school since Jeffrey's diagnosis.Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Chapters 10-13 (Pages 131-175)

Vocabulary:

binomials

rhetorical

essentially

attributes

derange

Short Answer Questions:

1. How did Renee Albert volunteering to tutor Steven in math paint a target on his

forehead?

2. Who had been asking Annette about Steven's absence from school?

3. Describe the symptoms of Jeffrey's treatment.

4. What upset Steven the most about being shipped away to his grandparents'

house?

5. What did Steven do that made Renee so angry? Explain.

6. What happened when Steven yelled at his father?

7. Why didn't Steven respond to his mother's message to call her ASAP?

8. Why had Steven's father been crying at the kitchen table?

9. Why was it such a crisis for Steven to get the flu?

10.Why was Steven upset when he was finally allowed to return home?

Long Answer Questions:

11.Annette was proving over and over again she was truly Steven's best friend.

Explain why you think he still didn't treat her as one should treat a best friend.