Based on Curtain Call Caper by Christy Barritt and Kathy Applebee

http://www.amazon.com/Curtain-Caper-Gabby-Claire-Diaries-ebook/dp/B00J40WBKE
The following are based on all eight passages, CHAPTER 1-3 in Curtain Call Caper.

SEQUENCE (put the following events in order)

Gabby listens to her mom’s old cassette tapes

Gabby gets caught being tardy to math
Gabby got something gross smelling on her shoe
The spotlight falls in the auditorium
Gabby has detention
Gabby went to South Pacific with the Chapmans
Mr. Harold discovered the webbing had been cut
Gabby sings The Cowman and the Farmer
Gabby was partnered with the Caveman in English

COMPARE & CONTRAST

Readers, like detectives, spend time carefully observing and gathering information. Some things an author
tells us outright and other things must infer from the information given. By noticing and noting ways
characters act, we infer information not directly stated.

2. How does Gabby’s opinion of herself differ from the Diva’s opinion of her? How are they alike? Copy
six quotations from chapters 1-3 where Gabby describes herself into the GABBY column. In the DIVA
column, write how the Diva might describe that same aspect of Gabby’s looks or personality.

GABBY DIVA

PREDICT
3. What caused the spotlight to fall.
4. What genre of fiction Curtain Call Caper is
CONNOTATION/DENOTATION
Words can have more than one meaning. The literal meaning, the denotation, is a direct, realistic, dictionary
definition. The connotation is what the word suggests or implies.

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In the sentences below, change the words in italics to keep the denotation the same while changing the
connotation. You may change other words as necessary so the sentences are grammatically correct.

5. A Math for Middle School, volume eight crashed onto the floor surprising everyone except Donabell the
Diva, from whose desk it had tumbled noisily to the scuffed dingy yellow and black squared linoleum floor.
6. I remembered her slinging nothing but poisonous barbs my way.
7. I glanced down at my feet and was horrified to discover that whatever I’d nearly slipped on in my haste to
avoid another tardy had managed to stick to my scuffed tennis shoe.
8. The man seemed to sweat when he was stressed
9. The janitor I’d nearly tackled in the hall was sweeping up the shards of glass while another examined the
smashed spotlight that had nearly clobbered me.
10. I had raced home

IMAGINE
11. How might the story be different if it were set in a brand new YMCA?
12. How might the story be different if Gabby was from a rich, popular family in Los Angeles?

CONFLICT (What type of conflict is this an example of?)

Gabby vs. the Diva
Gabby trying to get to class on time
The spotlight falling on Gabby?
Gabby trying to be on time

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