Monday, December 23, 2013

The Astronaut and the Onion by Ann Cameron

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Book: The Astronaut and the Onion
Author: Ann Cameron
ISBN: 978-0-02-199970-5

1. What is the young girl’s name?
2. What did the young girl go buy? (A)
3. Where did Gloria go to purchase A?
4. What caught Gloria’s eyes?
5. Roughly how many jars did Gloria count on the display?
6. What was the woman wearing that got in line behind Gloria?
7. How many jars were on display?
8. What was the name of the baby food display?
9. The baby food jars were stacked up to look like a ____________________.
10. What was he lady that was wearing the sky-blue jogging suit holding?
11. What did Gloria do, in order, to show the lady with the nice jogging suit that she was a good catcher?
12. Describe the lady’s earrings?
13. Where on page 88, does it give you a clue that her friends are astronauts?
14. What is the lady’s name that Gloria is talking to?
15. What is Gloria’s last name?
16. To where did Dr. Grace Street travel in space?
17. When astronauts wear their spacesuits outside the space station, they stare out to __________________________________.
18. What did Dr. Grace describe as there being zillions of?
19. What did Dr. Grace describe as it being deep and black?
20. What was calling them to go on an endless journey?
21. How many miles above Earth was the space station?
22. How did water appear to the astronauts from the space station?
23. Dr. Street mentioned three words that are paralyzing.  What are those words?
24. Dr. Street said, “be careful what you tell yourself-because whatever you tell yourself you’re very likely to believe.”  What do you think she meant by that?
25. Dr. Street said, “You need to tame your fears.  Not get rid of them-just tame them.”  What did Dr. Street mean by this statement?
26. How does someone tame their fears?
27. What do you need to do in order to know you can count on yourself?
28. How do you get confidence?
29. Why should you keep a little fear inside?
30. What is the great secret of life?
31. How did Gloria relate (make a connection) the onion to “how little things are really big”

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