Book Study Guide I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
· Create a timeline, glossary, and eyewitness accounts of the Pearl Harbor bombing. Use the website: http://tinyurl.com/3wtfqz8 as a guide
• Write an in-depth character analysis of Danny. Provide specific details and quotations from the book as examples of things he says and does that demonstrate character traits. Make inferences about his thoughts and feelings, using details from the text to support your analysis.
• Describe how Danny changes over the course of the novel. What is his biggest problem at the beginning of the book? What are his views on Hawaii and Mack? At what point in the novel do you notice a change in Danny? How has he matured by the novel’s end?
• How does Danny’s point of view influence the way the events in the novel are described? How would the story be different if it were narrated from the point of view of a boy whose father was one of the Japanese pilots who participated in the attack?
• Which chapter would you consider the novel’s climax? Label the pyramid-shaped diagram with the elements of plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. Then, identify which chapter or chapters from I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor corresponds with each element.
• Danny tells Mack, “I’ll make my mom have dinner with you… When you get better.” What does this line of dialogue show? How does it mark a turning point in the novel?
Build Vocabulary: use a chart to record word meanings and synonyms.
Word: meaning: synonyms:
angelic
chauffeured
flinching
lurking
snooty
barracks
commotion
Hoist
mainland
stowed
bellyaching
empire
infamy
pummeling
vicious
blindsided
ferocious
jagged
smithereens
winced
· Create a timeline, glossary, and eyewitness accounts of the Pearl Harbor bombing. Use the website: http://tinyurl.com/3wtfqz8 as a guide
• Write an in-depth character analysis of Danny. Provide specific details and quotations from the book as examples of things he says and does that demonstrate character traits. Make inferences about his thoughts and feelings, using details from the text to support your analysis.
• Describe how Danny changes over the course of the novel. What is his biggest problem at the beginning of the book? What are his views on Hawaii and Mack? At what point in the novel do you notice a change in Danny? How has he matured by the novel’s end?
• How does Danny’s point of view influence the way the events in the novel are described? How would the story be different if it were narrated from the point of view of a boy whose father was one of the Japanese pilots who participated in the attack?
• Which chapter would you consider the novel’s climax? Label the pyramid-shaped diagram with the elements of plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. Then, identify which chapter or chapters from I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor corresponds with each element.
• Danny tells Mack, “I’ll make my mom have dinner with you… When you get better.” What does this line of dialogue show? How does it mark a turning point in the novel?
Build Vocabulary: use a chart to record word meanings and synonyms.
Word: meaning: synonyms:
angelic
chauffeured
flinching
lurking
snooty
barracks
commotion
Hoist
mainland
stowed
bellyaching
empire
infamy
pummeling
vicious
blindsided
ferocious
jagged
smithereens
winced