Mrs. White * 6th Grade Language Arts * Summer Reading

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Who’s Who?major characters

Story Elements

Who Said That?

Fact or Fiction?

Who’s Who?minor characters

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Jeopardy

$100He is expected to baby-sit his sister after school even though he would rather play baseball.

Moose Flanagan

$200This character starts a laundry service for the children at her school.

Piper Williams

$300She throws temper tantrums and has screaming fits if she can’t have her way because she is autistic

Natalie Flanagan

$400This character is determined to find a cure for Natalie’s disease

Mrs. Flanagan

Moose Flanagan

$500This character feels that he was born to be a responsible person.

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This big rock sits in San Francisco Bay where most of the story takes place

Alcatraz Island

$200The genre of a story based on history, is set in a real place, and includes some real people among its characters

Historical fiction

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many people, including Mr. Flanagan, struggled to find a job in 1935.

Great Depression

DAILY DOUBLE

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It happened on Friday,

January 4, 1935.

Moose moved to Alcatraz Island

$500One of the two reasons why the Flanagans moved to Alcatraz

Because of Mr. Flanagan’s job or so that Natalie could

go to a special school

$100“Why did the chicken cross the road? His buttons rolled to the other side.”

Natalie Flanagan

$200“Done!”

Al Capone

$300“We have rules here. Laws you must obey or you could endanger yourself and everyone else on this island.”

Warden Williams

$400“Do you have any idea what you’re doing to us? To Mom and Dad? You’re making them old. They worry about you all the time. At least you can try. At least you can do that. Sometimes I think you don’t even try and I hate you for it…”

Moose Flanagan

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“Natalie lives in her own world. Sometimes it’s a good world and sometimes it’s a bad world. And sometimes she can get out and sometimes she can’t.”

Theresa Mattaman

$100Al Capone Does My Shirts

by Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction

$200Families of the Alcatraz prison staff lived on the same island as the convicts.

Fact

$300The Flanagan Family

Fiction

$400Children who lived on Alcatraz Island took a ferry boat to school each day

Fact

$500Autism is a disease that affects the way

your brain and sensory system work

Fact

$100They did the laundry for everyone on

Alcatraz Island

The convicts

$200He and Natalie hold hands in the yard while Moose is searching for a baseball

AZ 105 (Onion)

$300This character promises to keep working with Natalie to help her learn to cope with reality and stop retreating into her own world

Mrs. Kelly

$400He changed the day of the baseball games to Tuesday so that Moose could play.

Scout

$500She gets to know, understand, and become friends with Natalie

Theresa Mattaman

FINAL JEOPARDY

Story Elements - Setting

Al Capone Does My Shirts, set in 1935 at Alcatraz, begins in this month and

ends in this month.

January and June