Chapter 1
Take notes on Max, Freak, Setting, Significant Events (Plot), and theme (need three ideas)
Choose a quotable passage, record it in your notebook and write why you chose it.
Vocabulary
unvanquished
"The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it..."
Chapter 2
Take notes on Max, Freak, Setting, Significant Events (Plot), and theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
vacant
"My brain is vacant, okay?"
Chapter 3
Take notes on Max, Freak, Other Significant Characters, Setting, Significant Events (Plot), and theme (need three ideas)
Choose a quotable passage, record it in your notebook and write why you chose it.
Vocabulary
propulsion
"We'll schedule installation of a new propulsion unit..."
Question 1) Character Description:
In your own words, describe Maxwell's appearance and personality
Question 2) Character Analysis of Max:
Why do you think Max acts the way he does?
Chapter 4
Take notes on Max, Freak, Other Significant Characters, Setting, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
Choose a quotable passage, record it in your notebook and write why you chose it.
Vocabulary
sobriquet
"Grim would be, I suppose, a sobriquet for your grandfather, based on his demeaner."
Question 3) Character Description:
In your own words, describe Freak's appearance and personality
Question 4) Character Analysis of Freak:
Why do you think Freak acts the way he does?
Chapter 5
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
Choose a quotable passage, record it in your notebook and write why you chose it.
Vocabulary
expel
"'Expel the object,' Freak shouts."
Question 5) At the end of chapter 5, Max states "...and I'm crying like a baby. And the really weird thing is, I'm happy."What do you think about this statement? Why would he cry if he was happy? Why is it weird for him to be happy?
Chapter 6
Take notes on New Character, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
deficiency
"Freak says, 'Cretin. C-R-E-T-I-N. Defined as one who suffers from mental deficiency."
Question 6) Why do you think Blade chooses Max and Freak to pick on in chapter 6?
What kind of guy is Blade?
Chapter 7
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
Choose a quotable passage, record it in your notebook and write why you chose it.
Vocabulary
converge
"They've locked on to us. Their trajectory is converging."
Question 7) Write a paragraph comparing and contrasting Max and Freak.
Compare means to tell what is similar.
Contrast means to tell what is different.
Chapter 8
Take notes on Max, Freak, Setting, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
evasive
"'He's not running away.' Grim says, real impatient. 'He's taking evasive action.'"
Question 8) How do Gram and Grim treat Maxwell differently after Max
"saves" Freak from Tony D.? Why do you think they change how they treat
him because of this incident? What does the coffee Grim offers Max symbolize?
Chapter 9
Take notes on Max, Freak, Setting, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
divulged
"Now swear on your heart that the data you are about to receive will be divulged to no one."
Question 9) Why do you think Freak takes Max to the hospital? Why was it so important to him? Do you think he is really going to get robotic body parts? Why or why not?
Chapter 10
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
confirm--support
"This has been confirmed by visual observations."
Question 10) Why do you think Max does everything Freak tells him to do?
Chapter 11
Take notes on Max, Freak, Other Significant Characters, Significant Events,
and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
scuttle--to run hurriedly; scurry
"Freak is scuttling around behind me..."
Question 11) What did you learn from this chapter?
Chapter 12
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
Choose a quotable passage, record it in your notebook and write why you chose it.
Vocabulary
rubbish
"Good riddance to bad rubbish."
Question 12) How do you feel about Max? Would you want him as your friend? Why?
What do you think about his life at home and school?
Question 13) How do you feel about Kevin? Would you want him as your friend? Why? What do you think about his life at home and school?
Chapter 13
Take notes on Significant Events and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
gruel
"Please sir, more gruel."
Chapter 14
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
intervention
"Easily corrected by biogenic intervention."
Chapter 15
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
abscissa
"ABSCISSA, the horizontal truth."
Question 14) Who came back? Why do you think he came back? What's your prediction for how Max will handle this situation? If you've read ahead, instead of predicting, analyze Max's response to his dad coming back to get him.
Chapter 16
Take notes on Max, Freak, Setting, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
deprive
"You know how many Christmas Eves I've been deprived of my own blood kin?"
Question 15) Do you really think Killer Kane wants to get to know his son better? Why or why not?
Question 16) How do you think Max feels about being kidnapped by his father? Why doesn't he fight back or try to escape?
Chapter 17
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
ignorant
"...except they're so ignorant and hateful they believe that worst."
Question 17 ) Character Analysis: Killer Kane
What is his motivation? Why does he act the way he does? Do you believe he has "religion"? Do you believe he is innocent?
Chapter 18
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
tussle
"He reaches out and tussles at my hair."
Question 18 ) What happened in the chapter that helps Max to begin to realize his father may not be as good as he says he is?
Chapter 19
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
bloated
"...they're numb and bloated from the rope cutting into my wrists..."
Chapter 20
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
rage
"...He's howling in rage behind me..."
Chapter 21
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
aberration
"Dr. Spivak says my unique status as a marvel of genetic aberration makes me an object of intense curiosity."
Question 19) What is it that worries Max about growing up?
Chapter 22
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
prodigy
"Talk about a prodigy."
Chapter 23 & 24
Take notes on Max, Freak, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary Ch. 23
intensive
"The intensive care unit is this place where there are so many nurses..."
Vocabulary Ch. 24
telemetry
"This one woman runs right out from behind the telemetry station..."
Question 21) How do you feel about Freak dying? How do you think Max feels about Freak dying?
Chapter 25
Take notes on Max, Freak, Setting, Significant Events, and Theme (need three ideas)
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Vocabulary
sake
"...he just kept saying I should come out for Gram's sake..."
Question 21) Explain what Loretta Lee meant by "Nothing is a drag, kid. Think about it." What was she trying to get Max to understand?
Question 22)Write 1 page or more discussing your ideas of what you think is the overall message of the book (the theme).