Catch Me If You Can Chapter 1: The Fledgling (Part 1: pgs 1-14)

1) Listen to the audiobook recording for the first part of chapter 1. 2) Work with your group members to make sure that you are getting as much detail from the text as possible! 3) Record what you discover in your Little Black Logbooks

Reading & Personal Response Questions

1) What literary devices are used in the first half of chapter one? HINT: look to the Important Quotations section. Discuss this as a group. Search for quotations that you could use for evidence. Write them in your logbook. We will discuss this as a class so leave some extra room to add any you missed! 2) What airline company does Frank pretend to work for? What type of plane does he fly and what level of pilots license does he pretend to have? What happens on pages 1-4 (bullet notes are fine) 3) What do we learn about the character Frank Abagnale in the first half of chapter one? Do a character sketch of Frank. * A character sketch a drawing of how you imagine the character (doesnt have to be too artistic, just add some details from the book (hair colour, facial features, body type, clothing that you think they would wear etc.) 5+ character traits written on the same page (see Miss Tarnowskis example). Use your group members to brainstorm / for help thinking of ideas! 2-3 short quotations to back up your decisions for the character drawing and the character traits. 5) What does Frank do that makes him a criminal? 6) How much money did Frank Abergnale steal by the time he was 21? (page 4) 7) What did Frank spend the money on? put it in your own words and find a quotation too! 8) Describe Franks family and his family life. (pages 6-12) What does Frank blame for his later problems in life? (hint: it is not a person but a thing top of pg 11) 9) Why is it significant that Frank dedicated the book To My Dad. 10) What is Franks biggest weakness that gets him into all this mess?

Important Quotations
Reflect on the following quotations (I would discuss them with my group members, then write down the quotations YOU think are most important before commenting on them in your logbook. Choose 2-3.) A Mans Alter Ego is nothing more than his favorite image of himself (1). Modesty was not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues. (1) I wasnt a Pan Am pilot or any other pilot. I was an impostor, one of the most wanted criminals on four continents and at the moment I was doing my thing, putting a super hype on some nice people. (4) I was a millionaire twice over and a half before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of it on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels and other sensual goodies. (4) I was slipperier than a buttered escargot (4) The shrink concluded I had a very low criminal threshold. In other words, I had no business being a crook in the first place. (5) My Father was the mark for the first score I ever made. Dad possessed the one trait necessary in the perfect pigeon, blind trust, and I plucked him for $3,400. I was only fifteen at the time (6) If I had to place any blame for my future nefarious actions, Id put it on the Ford. I learned that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there is a touch of class involved. (10) Women became my only vice. I reveled in them. I couldnt get enough of them. I went to bed thinking of girls. I woke up thinking of girls Don Juan had only a mild case of the hots compared to me. I was obsessed with foxy women. (11-12)

Vocabulary
Work with your group members to define the following words in your logbook. I would divide the definitions between group members (3-4 each) and then share them with each other. Use a dictionary from the back of the room. ego and alter ego (1) bull-shouldered (1) immaculately (1) ruefully (1) endorse (2) unabashed (2) heft (2) wizened (2) burnished (2) shenanigans (4) deluded (5) delinquent (9) leniently (10) erstwhile (10) nefarious (11) ruptured (11) frolicsome (12) Frulein (12)