Focus Question: Identify one human relationship or one animal relationship that Frightful has in this chapter. Do you think this relationship is helpful or harmful to Frightful’s survival? Explain your thoughts. Evidence from the Text: or Animal Relationship My Thoughts: Chapter 1: “Frightful Takes Off” Words I Found Difficult: jesses (9) culvert (11) tiercel (19) Glossary: talons—noun: the claw of the bird perch—noun: anything upon which a bird rests prey—noun: an animal hunted or killed for food by another animal predator—noun: an animal that hunts other animals for food Learning from Frightful’s perspective: Chapter 1
Learning from Frightful’s perspective: Chapter 2 Focus Question: What is something that Frightful learns from her relationship with Chup? Evidence from the Text: Things Frightful Learns from Chup My Thoughts: Chapter 2: “Frightful Goes to Falcon School” Words I Found Difficult: Glossary: aerie—noun: the nest of a bird on a cliff, mountaintop, or high place eyases—noun: undeveloped birds, not feathered or ready for flight, nestlings
Learning from Frightful’s perspective: Chapter 3 Focus Question: What are some of the physical and behavioral changes that occur as Drum, Lady, and Duchess become young peregrine falcons? Use evidence from the text to support your thoughts. Evidence from the Text: The Physical and Behavioral Changes My Thoughts: Chapter 3: “The Eyases Get on Wing” Words I Found Difficult: Glossary: nictitating membrane—noun: a thin membrane found in many animals at the inner angle or beneath the lower lid of the eye and capable of extending across the eyeball fledgling—noun: a young bird another
Learning from Frightful’s perspective: Chapter 4 Focus Question: Peregrine falcons use their instincts to know when they should migrate south. What “signs in nature” signal the falcon that it is time to migrate? Use evidence from the text to support your thoughts. Include the page number(s) where you found your evidence. Evidence from the Text: Signs that It Is Time to Migrate My Thoughts: Chapter 4: “The Wilderness Tests the Eyases” Words I Found Difficult: Glossary: instinct—noun: a natural ability or inclination juvenile—adjective: showing incomplete development; immature, childish pilgrimage—noun: a journey
Learning from Frightful’s perspective: Chapter 5 Theme: How leaders help their people Focus: Leaders help people to make change Focus Question: As the weather changes, many other changes occur in Frightful’s environment. These changes and the need to survive pull her in two different directions. What two directions is Frightful pulled in? Which direction does Frightful choose? Use evidence from the text to support your thoughts. Evidence from the Text: Name the two directions and Frightful’s choice. My Thoughts: Chapter 5: “Frightful Peregrinates” Words I Found Difficult: Glossary: current—noun: air or water moving continuously in a certain direction migration—noun: movement from one place, region, or climate to another
Learning from Frightful’s perspective: Chapter 7 Question: In this chapter, Frightful survives a near-death experience thanks to a person named Jon. However, many peregrine falcons have not survived and the birds have become an endangered species. What are two things that have caused the death of many peregrine falcons? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. Evidence from the Text: The causes of death for peregrine falcons. My Thoughts: Chapter 7: “Disaster Leads to Survival” Words I Found Difficult: Glossary: pesticides—noun: chemicals used for killing pests, especially insects and rodents mews—noun: enclosures for trained hawks destiny—noun: something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune
Learning from Frightful’s Perspective: Chapter 8 Focus Question: What does Jon teach Frightful? How does he teach her this lesson? Use evidence from this chapter to support your thoughts. Evidence from the Text: What and how does Jon teach Frightful? My Thoughts: Chapter 8: “Hunger Is Frightful’s Teacher” Words I Found Difficult: Glossary: cote—noun: a small shed or coop for small animals transformer—noun: a device that transfers electric energy from one alternating-circuit current to one or more other circuits, either increasing (stepping up) or reducing (stepping down) the voltage raptors—noun: any bird of prey; examples of raptors include owls, eagles, falcons, hawks, and vultures
Learning from Frightful’s perspective: Chapter 9 Focus Question: Where does Frightful build her nest? What two important events happen at Frightful’s nest? How do these events show the consequences of human interaction and the natural world? Use evidence from the text to support your thinking. Evidence from the Text: My Thoughts on Frightful’s nest and what it shows about the interaction between humans and the natural world: Chapter 9: “Frightful Finds Sam” Words I Found Difficult: Glossary: girder—noun: a strong beam used to build buildings, bridges, etc. imprint—verb: to cause (something) to stay in your mind or memory incubate—verb: to sit on eggs so that they will be kept warm and will hatch scrape—noun: the nest of a bird consisting of a usually shallow depression in the ground mottled—adj.: marked with colored spots or areas pores—noun: tiny openings especially in an animal or plant; one by which matter passes through a membrane
Learning from Frightful’s perspective: Chapter 10 Focus Question: Frightful lays three eggs in her nest on the Delhi bridge. Explain how she and 426 care for their eggs. Later, in Chapter 10, human impact threatens Frightful and her eggs. Describe what threatens Frightful’s eggs and how Sam helps Frightful through this challenge. Evidence from the Text: My Thoughts: Chapter 10: “There Are Eggs and Trouble” Words I Found Difficult: Glossary: chalazas—noun: either of two spiral bands in the white of a bird’s egg that extends from the yolk and attaches to opposite ends of the lining membrane albumen—noun: the white of an egg clutch—noun: the act of grasping, holding, or restraining trance—noun: the state of being lost in thought conservation—noun: a careful preservation and protection of something; especially planned management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, destruction, or neglect
Learning from Frightful’s perspective: Chapter 11 Question: Efforts are being made by the kids in Delhi to stop bridge construction while Frightful and 426’s eggs hatch. Use evidence from Chapter 11 to describe at least three things the kids are doing to get people’s attention to help Frightful and 426. Evidence from the Text: My Thoughts: Chapter 11: “The Kids Are Heard” Words I Found Difficult: Glossary: embryos—noun: humans or animals in the early stages of development before they are born or hatched protesters—noun: people who show or express strong disagreement with or disapproval of something detour—noun: the act of going or traveling to a place along a way that is different from the usual or planned way hatching—verb: coming out of an egg; being born by coming out of an egg
Learning from Frightful’s perspective: Chapter 12 Focus Question: When Flip Pearson and Dr. Werner take the eyases, Molly wants a chance to see them. What does Molly notice when Flip allows her to look in the bag? Evidence from the Text: What does Molly see? My Thoughts: Chapter 12: “There are Three” Words I Found Difficult: Glossary: horizontal—adj.: positioned from side to side rather than up and down; parallel to the ground vertical—adj.: positioned up and down rather than from side to side; going straight up torrents—n.: large amounts of water that move very quickly in one direction morsel—n.: a small piece of food