Study Guide for “Lunch Money”
1. Why did the author write “Lunch Money”? (What is the author’s purpose?)
2. What word best describes this sentence from the story? Sweet! That means I sold seventeen units.
3. Read the sentence: Greg had set a sales goal for the first week. What was the author trying to show about Greg?
4. Quote evidence from the text that Greg is completely focused on selling books.
5. How does the author indicate that some of the sentences from the passage are told in Greg’s voice? (using italics, including captions, capitalizing all the words, enclosing some text in parentheses….)
6. Read this sentence from the passage: The idea of making and selling comic books had hit Greg like a KRAK! over the head from Superman himself. Why did the author most likely write the sentence?
7. How does the illustration on page 491 present Greg? What is he doing?
8. What does the author’s choice of the name Chunky Comics suggest about Greg’s personality?
9. Why did the author show the ten steps Greg uses to make his comic books?
10. What impression do the full-size illustrations of Creon, Eeon, and Leon most likely make on the reader?
Vocabulary
Write the definition of each word, use the word correctly in a sentence, and write a synonym for each word, or a word that reminds you of this word.
1. Mental
2. Record
3. Episode
4. Developed
5. Feature
Answer the questions below using the internet or another reference source.
6. What does aud in the word audience?
7. What does the root word fract mean in the word fraction?
8. What does the root word junct mean in the word junction?
9. How does the root word port help the reader understand what transported means?
10. How does the root word mem help the reader understand what memory?