7th Grade Watsons Review::

Jeopardy Game

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characters PlotLiterary

termsPotpourri quotes

characters $1

This character is the narrator.

Who is Kenny?

Characters $2

This character stole Kenny’s dinosaurs.

Who is LJ Jones?

Characters $5

This character lives with Grandma Sands.

Who is Mr. Robert?

Characters $10

This character proposed to Momma at the same time

that Daniel did.

Who is “Hambone” Henderson?

Characters $20

This character assured Dad that the brown bomber could drive

straight through to Birmingham.

Who is Mr. Davidson?

Plot $1

How does Byron get his lips stuck to the car mirror?

He kissed himself when he was supposed to be

scraping the windshield.

Plot $2

Who punished Byron for playing with matches?

Who is Dad?

Plot $5

What are the two things that are wrong with Rufus?

- He is poor and he talks Southern style

Plot $10

Why didn’t Joey like the angel from Mrs. Davidson?

The angel was white

plot $20

What did Kenny learn about himself while staying at the pet

hospital?

Kenny learned that he was ashamed of himself.

Literary Terms Question $1

Identify the setting of The Watsons Go to Birmingham-

1963

Flint, Michigan1963

Birmingham, Alabama

Literary Terms Question $2

Identify the literary term:Byron was mad at Kenny for reading poetry to his class.

What is external conflict?

Literary Terms Question $5

Identify the literary term:Kenny is smart, gullible and

sensitive

What is characterization?

Literary Terms Question $10

Example: dad hinted about the problems down in

Birmingham

What is foreshadowing?

Literary Terms Question $20

the church bombing-the turning point in the story

What is the climax?

Potpourri $1

Some of the problems that the Watsons have with the

brown bomber.

What is it doesn’t always start, it’s old and it’s ugly

“turd brown?”

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Who saved Byron from the car mirror?

Who is Momma?

Potpourri $5

This made Byron throw up in the alley.

What is guilt?

Potpourri $10

One good thing about Momma being from the

South.

What is the kids get two pairs of leather gloves?

Potpourri $20

How long did it take Christopher Paul Curtis to

write this novel?

What is more than twenty years?

Quotes $1

“He was the third-oldest kid at Clark. The only ones

older than him and stronger than him were Byron and Buphead…”

Who is Larry Dunn?

Quotes $2

“I remember when we used to go visit my grandmother in the country and there would

be a Sears catalog in the outhouse…”

Who is Dad?

Quotes $5

“Man, I just don’t get you, you supposed to be the one

who’s so smart. How can you believe in something as

stupid as magic powers…”

Byron talking to Kenny

Quotes $10

“I’m not scared, I’m just real, real ashamed of

myself...That was the main thing I’d finally found out…”

Who is Kenny?

Quotes $20

“If y’all are going to the water you stay away from

Collier’s Landing.”

Who is Grandma Sands?

Final Jeopardy Answer