| Guide to One Fat Summer, by Robert Lipsyte | ||||||||||||||||
| Chapter 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Why did Bobby and Joanie pretend that they did not hear the taunts from the other kids? | |||||||||||||||||
| Bobby says that Joanie is terrific at pretending. What did he mean? | |||||||||||||||||
| How old is Bobby? | |||||||||||||||||
| How old is Joanie? | |||||||||||||||||
| Why does Bobby call Dr. Kahn? | |||||||||||||||||
| Why do you think Bobby feels thin when he is with Joanie? | |||||||||||||||||
| Do you act and feel differently depending on whom you are with? | |||||||||||||||||
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| Chapter 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| What jobs did Dr. Kahn want Bobby to do? | |||||||||||||||||
| How old did Bobby tell Dr. Kahn that he is? | |||||||||||||||||
| Why did Bobby lie about his age? | |||||||||||||||||
| Why did Bobby get seasick? | |||||||||||||||||
| What did Bobby mean when he compared Dr. Kahn’s house to a ship? | |||||||||||||||||
| vocabulary: insignia (25), quivering (21), columns (21), enterprise (22), rhythm (24) | |||||||||||||||||