Extended Text Study
Percy Jackson and the Olympians:
The Sea of Monsters
By Rick Riordan
“My nightmare started like this…”
Outline of Unit
Day 1: Before reading and pre-reading activities
Judging a Book by Its Cover
Vocab-O-Gram/Predict-O-Gram
Day 2 and 3: Section 1-(Chapters 1 & 2)-Read and Work On:
Section 1 Vocabulary Activities (Individual)
Character Sketcher-Tyson (Individual)
Wanted Poster (Individual/small group)
Day 4 and 5: Section 2-(Chapters 3 & 4)-Read and Work On:
Section 2 Vocabulary Activities (Individual)
Character Sketcher-Gray Sisters (Individual)
Discussion on Character Sketcher-Chiron (Group)
Day 6: Section 2 Readers Theater
Readers Theater-Assign parts and practice
Day 7: Section 2-Present Reader Theater
Day 8 and 9: Section 3-(Chapters 5 & 6)-Read and Work On:
Section 3 Vocabulary Activities (Individual)
Character Sketcher-Chiron (Individual)
Day 10: Section 3-Discussion on Character Sketcher
Discuss Character Sketcher-Chiron (Group)
Day 11 and 12: Section 4-(Chapters 7 & 8)-Read and Work On:
Section 4 Vocabulary Activities (Individual)
Character Sketcher- Tantalus (Individual)
Discussion on Character Sketcher-Tantalus (Group)
Day 13 and 14: Section 4-Internet Workshop
Internet Workshop and DRC (Individual)
Day 15 and 16: Section 5-(Chapters 9 & 10)-Read and Work On:
Section 5 Vocabulary Activities (Individual)
Character Sketcher-Hydra (Individual)
Discussion on Character Sketcher-Hydra (Group)
Day 17 and 18: Section 5 Double Entry Diary
Work on Double Entry Diary
Day 19 and 20: Section 6-(Chapters 11 & 12)-Read and Work On:
Section 6 Vocabulary Activities (Individual)
Reward Poster (Individual/small group)
Day 21: Reward Poster Discussion
Discussion on Reward Poster (Whole)
Day 22: Section 7-(Chapters 13 & 14)-Read and Work On:
Section 7 Vocabulary Activities (Individual)
Introduce ABC Book
Day 23 and 24: ABC Book
Complete ABC Book (Individual)
Discussion of ABC Books (Group)
Day 25 and 26: Section 8-(Chapters 15 & 16)-Read and Work On:
Section 8 Vocabulary Activities (Individual)
Character Sketcher-Polyphemus (Individual)
Discussion on Character Sketcher-Polyphemus (Group)
Day 27: Section 8-Author’s Craft
Complete Author’s Craft (Individual)
Discussion on Author’s Craft (Group)
Day 28 and 29: Section 9-(Chapters 17 & 18)-Read and Work On:
Section 9 Vocabulary Activities (Individual)
Character Sketcher-Luke (Individual)
Discussion on Character Sketcher (Group)
Day 30 and 31: Section 9 Double Entry Diary
Complete Double Entry Diary (Individual)
Discussion on Double Entry Diary
Day 32 and 33: Section 10-(Chapters 19 & 20)-Read and Work On:
Section 10 Vocabulary Activities (Individual)
Stretch to Sketch (Individual/small group)
Discussion of Stretch to Sketch
Day 34: Section 10 “I Poem”
Create I Poem
Day 35: Vocabulary Assessment
Complete Vocabulary Assessment
Judging a Book by Its Cover
Before opening your text to begin reading take a few minutes to study the front and back covers of the book and answer the following questions.
1. Read the title of the book. What do you predict this book is about?
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2. What does the illustration on the front cover reveal about the book?
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3. After reading the back cover of the book, what stunning new secret will Percy discover about his family?
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Vocab-O-Gram/Predict-O-Gram
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters
Vocabulary words: chariot, Cyclops, Golden Fleece, Centaur, Blackbeard, Bermuda Triangle, Poseidon,
Use the vocabulary words above along with the title of the book to make predictions about the following elements of the story:
Setting:What might the setting be like? / Characters:
Who are some possible characters in this book?
Problem:
What problems might some of the characters encounter? / Characters’ Goals:
What are some likely goals for some of the characters?
Solution:
What might be some solutions for the problems? / Prediction/Questions:
Any predictions or questions?
Section 1
Pgs. 1-24 (Chapters 1 & 2)
Vocabulary
Complete the chart below by filling in the definition for the words listed.
Word / Meaningboutique
p. 2
silhouette
p. 7
grimy
p. 9
pulverize
p. 13
billowed
p. 15
Laistrygonians
p. 17
Word Networks
- What people things, situations, or words come to mind when you think about the word boutique?
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- What people things, situations, or words come to mind when you think about the wordsilhouette?
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- What people things, situations, or words come to mind when you think about the word grimy?
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- What people things, situations, or words come to mind when you think about the wordpulverize?
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- What people things, situations, or words come to mind when you think about the word billowed?
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- What people things, situations, or words come to mind when you think about the word Laistrygonians?
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Character Sketcher – Tyson
Section 1
You are invited to learn more about Tyson. Please take notes on how Tysonacts and looks.
To begin, reread the following passages, determine “descriptive words” that capture Tyson’spersonality and explain why the words describe Tyson.
Reread page 9.
Which words describe Tyson?
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He acts ______because______
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Focus on page 10.
Reread page 15-16,
Which words describe Tyson?
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He acts ______because______.
Reread page 19-21,
Which words describe Tyson?
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He acts ______because______.
Focus on page 19 & 21
Then, use the passages that describe Tyson’s actions and appearance to help you complete an artistic impression ofTyson. Use the following passages to help you:
Page 9 paragraph 3.
Other passages you noticed.
Wanted Poster
www.google.com
Create a Wanted Poster for one of the following characters:
- Percy
- Annabeth
- Tyson
You will complete an artistic representation of the character and then complete the following information:
Wanted
Character nameWanted For…
Physical Description
Personality
Interests
Main Goal in Life
Dislikes
Hang Outs
Suspected Whereabouts
Time and Place Last Seen
Section 2
Pgs. 25-47 (Chapters 3 & 4)
Vocabulary
Directions: Complete the chart by filling in the definition for the words listed.
Word / MeaningGiant Cannibals
p. 26
Drachma
p. 29
screeched
p. 31
skimming
p.34
orb
p.35
plume
p.39
Olympian Nectar
p.44
Cyclops
p.46
Word Relationships
When you hear the words Giant Cannibals, what do you think about and what words come to mind?
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When you hear the word billowed, what do you think about and what words come to mind?
When you hear the word Drachma, what do you think about and what words come to mind?
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When you hear the word screeched, what do you think about and what words come to mind?
When you hear the word skimming, what do you think about and what words come to mind?
When you hear the word orb, what do you think about and what words come to mind?
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When you hear the word plume, what do you think about and what words come to mind?
When you hear the words Olympian Nectar, what do you think about and what words come to mind?
When you hear the word Cyclops, what do you think about and what words come to mind?
Readers Theater
Section 2
“The Gray Sisters”
Approximately 30 minutes.
Staging: The narrator will stand at the corner of the stage behind a podium with a microphone.
Actors needed: Percy Jackson and Tyson
Actresses needed: Annabeth, Wasp, Anger, and Tempest
Narrator: This scene is from Rick Riordan’s Sea of Monsters and taken from Chapter 3, “Wehail the taxi of eternal torment.”Percy Jackson has just finished fighting off bloodthirsty, cannibalistic giants with the help of his new friend Tyson and an old friend Annabeth. Percy has been accused of setting off a bomb in the gym at Meriwether College Prep School, located in downtown Manhattan. There were no bombs. All the damage in the gym was due to cannibal giants trying to kill Percy and fighting with Tyson.
Percy Jackson: “What are you looking for?”
Narrator: Sirens are wailing all around them. Percy is worried that before long, more cops will cruise by them, looking for the juvenile delinquent gym-bombers.
Annabeth: “Found one. Thank the gods.”
Narrator: Annabeth pulled out a gold coin called a drachma. It is the currency of Mount Olympus.
Percy Jackson: “Annabeth, New York taxi drivers won’t take that.”
Narrator: Annabeth spoke in the language of Olympus, an Ancient Greek language. Percy understood exactly what she was saying.
Annabeth: “Stop, Chariot of Damnation!”
Narrator: Annabeth threw her coin in to the street, but instead of clattering of asphalt, the drachma sank right through and disappeared. The asphalt darkened. A rectangular pool of red liquid that looked like blood, started to bubble and a car erupted from the ooze.
Narrator: When the taxi appeared out of the ooze, the window rolled down and an old woman stuck her head out. She had a mop of grizzled hair covering her eyes, and she spoke in a weird mumbling way, like she’d just had a shot of Novocain.
Wasp: “Passage? Passage?”
Annabeth: “Three to Camp Half-Blood.”
Wasp: “Ach!” “We don’t take his kind!”
Narrator: She pointed a bony finger at Tyson.
Annabeth: “Extra pay, three more drachma on arrival.”
Wasp: “Done!”
Narrator: Reluctantly Percy got in the cab with Tyson squeezing in the middle and Annabeth crawling in last.
Narrator: Percy was surprised to see not just one woman, but three women crammed in the front seat of the taxi cab. They each had stringy hair covering their eyes, bony hands and they each wore charcoal-colored sackcloth dresses.
Wasp: “Long Island! Out-of-metro fare bonus! Ha!”
Narrator: Wasp floored the accelerator and Percy looked down in the seat only to find a black chain instead of a seat belt. The cab sped around the corner of West Broadway and the lady sitting in the middle screeched.
Tempest: “Look out! Go left!”
Wasp: “Well, if you’d give me the eye, I could see that!”
Narrator: Percy was worried when he heard that conversation. He thought about what he had just heard. Give her the eye? Percy didn’t have time to ask questions because the driver swerved to avoid an oncoming delivery truck, ran over the curb with a jaw-rattling, thump, and flew into the next block.
Anger: “Wasp!” “Give me the girl’s coin! I want to bit it.”
Wasp: “You bit it the last time, Anger!” “It’s my turn!”
Anger: “Is not!”
Tempest: “Red light!”
Anger: “Brake!”
Narrator: Wasp floored the accelerator again and rode up on the curb, screeching around another corner, and knocked over a newspaper box. She had left Percy’s stomach somewhere on Broome street.
Percy: “Excuse me…but….can you see?”
Wasp: “NO!”
Tempest: “NO!”
Anger: “Of course!”
Narrator: Anger wasn’t the one driving. She was riding shotgun by the window.
Narrator: Percy looked at Annabeth.
Percy: “They’re blind?”
Annabeth: “Not completely. They have one eye.”
Percy: “One eye?”
Annabeth: “Yeah.”
Percy: “Each?”
Annabeth: “No. One eye total.”
Narrator: Tyson was feeling car sick.
Tyson: “Not feeling so good.”
Percy: “Hang in there, big guy. Anybody got a garbage bag or something?”
Narrator: The three gray ladies were too busy squabbling to pay Percy any attention. Percy looked over at Annabeth, who was hanging on for dear life. Percy gave Annabeth a why-did-you-do-this-to-me look.
Annabeth: “Hey, this is the fastest way to Camp Half-blood.”
Percy: “Then why didn’t you take it from Virginia?”
Annabeth: “That’s outside their service area. They only serve the greater New York and surrounding communities.”
Anger: “We’ve had famous people in this cab!” “Jason! You remember him?”
Wasp: “Don’t remind me!” “And we didn’t have a cab back then, you old bat. That was three thousand years ago!”
Narrator: Anger tried to grab at Wasp’s mouth, but Wasp swatted her hand away.
Anger: “Give me the tooth!”
Wasp: “Only if Tempest gives me the eye!”
Tempest: “NO!” “You had it yesterday!”
Wasp: “But I’m driving, you old hag!”
Anger: “Excuses! Turn! That was your turn!”
Narrator: Wasp swerved hard onto Delaney Street, squishing Percy between Tyson and the door. She punched the gas and they shot up the Williamsburg Bridge at seventy miles an hour. The three sisters were fighting for real now, slapping each other as Anger tried to grab at Wasp’s face and Wasp tried to grab at Tempest’s. Their hair was flying and they were screaming at each other with their mouths wide opened. Percy realized that none of the sisters had any teeth except for Wasp. Wasp had one mossy yellow incisor. Instead of eyes, they had closed sunken eyelids. Anger did have one bloodshot green eye that stared at everything hungrily, as if it couldn’t get enough of anything it saw. Anger yanked the tooth out of her sister Wasp’s mouth. Wasp was so mad; she swerved toward the edge of the Williamsburg Bridge yelling.
Wasp:“ ‘Ivit back! ‘Ivit back!”
Percy: “If anybody’s interested, we’re going to die!”
Annabeth: “Don’t worry. The Gray Sisters know what they are doing. They’re really very wise.”
Narrator: Anger grinned at Percy through the rearview mirror, showing off her newly acquired tooth.
Anger: “Yes, wise! “We know things!”
Wasp: “Every street in Manhattan! The capital of Nepal!”
Tempest: “The location you seek!”
Narrator: The sisters pummeled Tempest from either side screaming at her to be quite.
Wasp/Anger: “He didn’t even ask you yet!”
Narrator: Percy was confused at what he was hearing from the sisters.
Percy: “What?” “What location?” “I’m not seeking any………”
Tempest: “Nothing!” “You’re right, boy. It’s nothing!”
Percy: “Tell me!”
Sisters: “NO!”
Tempest:“The last time we told, it was horrible.”
Anger: “Eye tossed in a lake!”
Wasp: (Moaning) “Years to find it again!” “And speaking of that---give it back!”
Anger: “NO!”
Wasp: “Eye!” Gimme!”
Narrator: Wasp whacked her sister on the back. There was a sickening pop and something flew out of Anger’s face. Anger fumbled for it, trying to catch it, but she only managed to bat it with the back of her hand. The slimy green orb sailing over her should, into the backseat and straight into Percy’s lap. Percy jumped up so hard that his head hit the ceiling of the cab and the eyeball rolled out of his lap and away.
Sisters: “I can’t see!”
Wasp: “Give me the eye!”
Narrator: Percy yelled back to Wasp that he didn’t have the eye. Annabeth found the eyeball and told Percy it was on the floor of the cab by his feet.
Annabeth: “Don’t step on it!” “Get it!”
Percy: “I’m not picking that up!”
Narrator: The taxi was slamming against the guardrail and skidded along it with a horrible grinding noise. The whole car shuddered, billowing gray smoke as if it were about to dissolve from the strain.
Tyson: “Going to be sick.”
Percy: “Annabeth, let Tyson use your backpack!”
Annabeth: “Are you crazy? Get the eye!”
Narrator: Wasp yanked the wheel, and the taxi swerved away from the rail. The taxi hurtled down the bridge toward Brooklyn. The Gray Sisters screeched and pummeled each other and cried out for their eye. Percy finally steeled his nerves and ripped off a chunk of his tie-dyed T-shirt and picked up the eyeball from off the floor of the cab.
Anger: “Nice boy!” “Give it back!”
Percy: “Not until you explain about the location I seek!”
Tempest: “No time! Accelerating!”
Narrator: Percy could see the trees, cars and whole neighborhoods zipping by in a gray blur.
Annabeth: “Percy, they can’t find our destination without the eye! We’ll just keep accelerating until we break into a million pieces!”
Percy: “First they have to tell me. Or I’ll open the window and throw the eye into oncoming traffic!”
Sisters: “NO! Too dangerous!”
Percy: “I’m rolling down the window!”
Sisters: “Wait! 30,31,75,12! That’s all we can tell you! Now give us the eye! Almost to camp!”
Narrator: Percy could see the Half-Blood Hill ahead and it’s giant pine tree at the crest—Thalia’s tree, which contained the life force of a fallen hero.
Annabeth: “Percy! Give them the eye now!”
Narrator: Percy decided not to argue and threw the eye into Wasp’s lap. The old lady snatched it up and pushed it into her eye socket like somebody putting in a contact lens and blinked.