The Phantom Tollbooth
As you go Activities
1. Copy the definition of Figurative Language into your Reflection Log. Figurative Language:
a tool than an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story.
2. After reading Chapters 1 and 2, access the Figurative Language Chart placed in the "Phantom Tollbooth" folder in Edmodo. View Power Point Presentation: Welcome to the Doldrums. You may print it out or copy it into your reflection log. Complete it for all chapters.
3. After reading each chapter that includes a new character, draw, color and create a speech bubble expressing the character's feelings. Complete this in a book.
Ch. 1 - Milo
Ch. 2 - the Whether man, Lethargians, Tock
Ch. 3 - King Azaz's advisers; the Duke of Definition, the Minister of Meaning, the Earl of Essence, the Count of Connotation, and the Undersecretary of Understanding.
Ch. 4 - the letter man, the Spelling Bee, the Humbug
Ch. 5 - Officer Shrift, Faintly Macabre
Ch. 6 - King Azaz, Mathemagician, Princess of Sweet Rhyme, Princess of Pure Reason
Ch. 9 - Alec Bings
Ch. 10 - the Giant/Midget/Fat man/Thin man, and Chroma the Great
Ch. 11 - Kakofonous A. Dischord, Dynne
Ch. 12 - the Soundkeeper
Ch. 13 - Canby
Ch. 14 - the Dodecahedron
Ch. 16 - .58 child, the Everspresent Wordsnatcher
Ch. 17 - the Terrible Trivium, the demon of insincerity, the Gelatinous Giant
Ch. 18 - the Senses taker
Ch. 19 - the Triple Demons of Compromise, the Horrible Hopping Hindsight, the Gorgons of Hate and Malice, the Overbearing Know-it-all, the Gross Exaggeration, the Threadbare Excuse, and the Dilemma
a tool than an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story.
2. After reading Chapters 1 and 2, access the Figurative Language Chart placed in the "Phantom Tollbooth" folder in Edmodo. View Power Point Presentation: Welcome to the Doldrums. You may print it out or copy it into your reflection log. Complete it for all chapters.
3. After reading each chapter that includes a new character, draw, color and create a speech bubble expressing the character's feelings. Complete this in a book.
Ch. 1 - Milo
Ch. 2 - the Whether man, Lethargians, Tock
Ch. 3 - King Azaz's advisers; the Duke of Definition, the Minister of Meaning, the Earl of Essence, the Count of Connotation, and the Undersecretary of Understanding.
Ch. 4 - the letter man, the Spelling Bee, the Humbug
Ch. 5 - Officer Shrift, Faintly Macabre
Ch. 6 - King Azaz, Mathemagician, Princess of Sweet Rhyme, Princess of Pure Reason
Ch. 9 - Alec Bings
Ch. 10 - the Giant/Midget/Fat man/Thin man, and Chroma the Great
Ch. 11 - Kakofonous A. Dischord, Dynne
Ch. 12 - the Soundkeeper
Ch. 13 - Canby
Ch. 14 - the Dodecahedron
Ch. 16 - .58 child, the Everspresent Wordsnatcher
Ch. 17 - the Terrible Trivium, the demon of insincerity, the Gelatinous Giant
Ch. 18 - the Senses taker
Ch. 19 - the Triple Demons of Compromise, the Horrible Hopping Hindsight, the Gorgons of Hate and Malice, the Overbearing Know-it-all, the Gross Exaggeration, the Threadbare Excuse, and the Dilemma