Shades of Simon Gray Master Packet
All answers are to be in complete sentences and are at least a paragraph in length.  If you haven't quoted a couple things, with a page number, you should've.  Don't for get I.S.Q.A. method for the questions with a number in Boldface.

Week One:

Prologue and Ch.1 Due week one, class one.

1.  Discuss two different sides of Simon's personality.  Use character traits with quoted supporting detail from the text.

2.  Create a character chart for each character introduced.  Use a whole page of paper, and leave extra room at the bottom for characters that emerge throughout the novel. Column headings should include:

Name            Character Traits            Relationship to Simon                    College Prospects

3. After completing this chapter explain what "The Project" is for these students.

Ch. 2 Due week one, class two

1.  Add Liz and Courtney to the character list started in the Ch. 1 answers.

2.  Explain Mr. Rosen's History project.

3.  Describe the relationship between Courtney and her father and Courtney and Simon.

Ch. 3+4 Due week one, class three

1.  Describe the plan the group concocts after school at their meeting after school.

2.  Explain the guilt Devin feels in this chapter.

3.  What unusual ability does Simon discover he has in this chapter?

4.  Why is Kyle not worried about the police?

Ch. 5+6 Due week one, class four

1.  Look up the word "Rationale" in the dictionary and define it.  How does Kyle rationalize the actions of "The Project"?

2.  Why is it strange that Devin and Liz become friends?

3.  Complete the section of the character chart, where applicable, that show which colleges each teen is hoping to attend.

4.  Whom does Simon meet while in a coma?  What doe he and Simon both see and not see.

 Week Two:

Ch 7 Due week two, class one

1. What new problem does Devin encounter?

2.  What crime does Liz commit?  How does she rationalize it?  How could it be significant?

Ch. 8 Due week two, class two.

1.  What causes Devin to give up on things?  What things does she give up in Ch. 8?

2.  What effect does Liz have on Simon while he was in a coma?

Ch. 9+10 Due week two, class three

1.  How do animals respond to Simon?

2.  What happens after Kyle gives advice to Devin's little brother. What does this reveal about Kyle?

3. What new plague erupts in Bellhaven in chapter 10 and how did the public respond?

4.  Explain "They know."

Ch. 11+12 Due week two, class four

1. What was Bellehaven like in 1798?

2.  What deal does Devin strike on pages 194-195?

3.  What do the detectives discover? (Shorter)

4.  How are Kyle and Danny relieved? (Shorter)

5.  How has Jessup changed?  What's his story?

Week Three

Ch 13+14 Due week three, class one.

1. What sickens Simon at the start of chapter 13?  Go into detail. (Longer)

2.  What truth emerges from Simon about the accident, and about the murder? (Longer)

3. Why is Simon no longer a suspect? (Shorter)

4.  Which decision does each character make? (Longer)

Week three, class two- I.S.Q.A. Cover Sheet Evaluation and Review

Week Three, class three- Shades of Simon Gray Exam