Freak the Mighty by Rodham Philbrick Table of

Freak the Mighty by Rodham Philbrick

Table of Contents T-Chart Max vs. Kevin…………… 1 Other Significant Characters……………. . 2 Setting………………………. 3 Quotable Passages………………. 4 Freak Speak…………………. . 5 Significant Events (by chapter)………… 6 -7 Vocabulary (by chapter)…………………. . 8 -10 Novel Questions……………… 11+ Text Codes……………………?

Max Freak

Other Significant Characters

Setting “The Down Under” ___________________ “The Land of Avarice” ___________________ “The New Testaments”

Vocabulary 1. word a. sentence from book b. guess c. dictionary definition Chapters 1 -3 1. unvanquished (p. 1) a. “The unvanquished truth is how Freak would say it…” b. without question c. cannot be defeated (disputed)

2. propulsion (p. ) a. “We’ll schedule installation of a new propulsion unit… b. engine c. a driving force Chapters 4 -8 3. sobriquet 4. deficiency 5. converge 6. evasive

Vocab continued Chapters 9 -12 7. Divulged Chapters 13 -15 8. dyslexic 9. parole 10. biogenic 11. abacus 12. abscissaa Chapters 17 -20 13. ignorant 14. intervention 15. deprive 16. accomodations 17. corrosive

Freak Speak

Significant Events One per chapter!

Quotable Passages Max: Freak: Grim: Gwen: Lorreta: Killer Kane:

Novel Questions 1. Why might some people be afraid of Max’s appearance? 2. Why do you think Max acts the way he does? 3. Why do you think Kevin treats people the way he does? 4. At the end of Ch. 5, Max states, “…and I’m crying like a baby. And the really weird thing is, I’m happy. ” Why would he cry if he is happy? Why is it weird for him to be happy? 5. Why do you think Blade chooses Max and Kevin to pick on? What kind of guy is Blade?

6. A. How do Gram and Grim treat Max differently after he “saves” Kevin from Tony D. aka Blade? B. Why did I put “save” in quotation marks? C. What does the coffee that Grim gives to Max symbolize? 7. Why does Max do everything Freak tells him to do? 8. Would you want Max as a friend? Why not? 9. Would you want Kevin as a friend? Explain.

Group Activity Ch. 1 -12 Put the following events in the correct sequence: 1. Freak wakes up Max to go find the “treasure” in the sewer…… 7 2. Freak takes Max through the “land of avarice” to show him the medical research building……………………………… 6 3. The class cheers, “FREAK THE MIGHTY. ”……………. . 10 4. Max first puts Kevin on his shoulders…………………. 4 5. Loretta tells Freak his daddy was a magician……………. . 8 6. Freak calls Blade a “C-R-E-T-I-N. ”……………………. 3 7. Max thinks Freak wants him to die……………………. 1 8. Max and Kevin begin the 8 th grade…………………… 9 9. Grim offers Max coffee…………………………… 5 10. Max rescues the ornithopter from the tree……………… 2