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Literature-based Skill Building:
Freak the Mighty, Chapter Three

Chapter Three: American Flyer

1. Learning Log

A. Give this chapter a new title. Consider what happened and the feelings of the chapter.

B. Setting: Identify the setting of the chapter.
time ________________________________________
place (where important things happened, or the two locations for this chapter) ______________________________________

C. In one or two sentences, summarize what happens in this chapter, or draw an important scene from it. D. Questions: Max meets several people in this chapter. Ask two questions about these characters or what they will have to do with Max.

2. Conflicts

A. What are four kinds of conflicts?

B. When Max goes outside again, Freak is having another conflict. What is the conflict? What kind of conflict is it?

3. Vocabulary Review:

Continue to review and use the "un" words you've been learning.

Complete the sentences that follow with words from the word list above it.

unvanquished	unplug	unconscious	unruly
unbreakable	unselfish	unthinkable	unconditional

1. Max's grandparents are always afraid he will become __________________________ and cause trouble.
2. At first, Freak was ___________________________________ of Max, who was watching him from behind the fence.
3. To Freak, leaving the paper thing in the tree was just _________________________. He was going to find a way to get it down.
4. Freak was determined to find a way to get the paper thing down from the tree. Thanks to Max, he was ___________________.
5. Max had to be careful with the paper thing because it was not ________________________.
6. Max was _______________________ when he gave the paper thing back to Freak carefully.

CHARACTER ANALYSIS: MATCH THE CHARACTER AND THE CHARACTERISTIC?

A characteristic is used to describe a character.
For each characteristic, write the name of the characters (Max or Freak) that have that characteristic.
Examples:

1. Doesn't live with brothers or sisters: Max and Freak
2. LIves with his grandparents: Max
3. Can't walk or run well Freak

Your turn!

1. Likes to use big words _____________________________________
2. Thinks he is stupid_____________________________________
3. Doesn't have many friends_____________________________________
4. Likes computers and books_____________________________________
5. Ran away when he got confused._____________________________________
6. Went to day care_____________________________________