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English 9
Shattering Glass
Reading Guide
Part 2, Chapters 8-14

Chapter 8:
1. What do you think Young’s story about “Mark” could imply about his own
life?

2. How does Simon help Coop learn?

3. Why doesn’t Coop want Young to tell Rob they are at Simon’s?

4. How does Young say that he feels about Simon? Does he like Simon?

Chapter 9:
1. What are Simon’s parents like?

2. How does Rob react when he sees Coop and Young with Simon?

3. Who is Ronna Perry? What is she like?

4. What does Ronna think of Bob?

 5. Who does Rob want to replace Simon as the class outcast? Why does he
want this?

6. What are some signs and words from the narrator that suggest that Rob
Haynes is not as nice and as perfect as he seems?

Chapter 10:
1. PREDICT: Who do you think the Prison Chaplain in the opening quote is
talking about? What do you think they did?

2. How does Lance behave in the volleyball game?

3. How does Simon behave in the volleyball game?

4. A plan is made in this chapter. How will Simon help Young in this plan?

5. How does Young feel that Rob had been discussing him with Simon?

6. What plan do they devise for Lance?

7. What does this plan reveal about Simon?

Chapter 11:
1. How does Simon get the computer code?
 2. How does Young feel about Simon helping him?

Chapter 12:
1. Simon changes Young’s schedule, what does he do for Bob?

2. What do they discover about Rob?

3. What is Rob’s real name?

Chapter 13:
1. What do the students call the principal?

2. What does Rob think is the reason Young has not asked Ronna to
homecoming?

3. What was Rob’s big plan for Simon at Homecoming?

4. What is the school mascot?

5. Describe how the wolverine unveils himself?

6. Why have Simon dance with Blair?

Chapter 14:
1. How did Young react when Simon danced with Ronna, his date?

2. Why did Coop just have to score and 18 on the ACT exam?

3. How does Coop think he did on the ACT?

 Vocabulary Chapters 8-14

1. Revulsion (p. 52): feeling of disgust

2. Accusatory (p. 57): claiming wrongdoing: containing or making an

accusation

3. Quicksilver (p. 60): changing unpredictably

4. Saunter (p.63): stroll at and easy pace; slow walk

5. Semantics (p. 88): study of logic; logical

6. Aura (p. 98): characteristic or distinctive impression created by somebody or

something

7. Dais (p. 102): raised platform at the end of a hall or large room

8. Smitten (p. 105): smite; to affect somebody strongly; fill somebody with
love or longing

9. Despondent (p. 107): extremely unhappy