Coraline Study Guide 1

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Coraline by Neil Gaiman

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HIGHER-LEVEL QUESTIONING - PAGE 2
With our first book, Coraline, you are going to practice your higher-level thinking skills by not only answering questions but creating
them as well. There are several different techniques to use when asking questions. Here are the styles we will be using:
A. “Find a detail”: The answers to this type of question can be found by recalling what you read or by looking in the book.
Example: What color are Coraline’s Wellington boots?
B. “Explain how or why”: This type of question explains how or why a character did something, or how or why a certain event
took place. It can also be a statement or a description. Example: Explain how Coraline finds the third soul.
C. “Question the author’s purpose”: We ask this type of question to predict why the author would include a certain event,
character, or description in the novel. Example: Why does the author give the “other” characters button eyes instead of real
eyes?
D. “Make a prediction or state an opinion”: This question often begins with “Why do you think,” or “What do you predict” and asks
for something specific from the reader. Example: What do you predict will happen to the Other Father when the Other Mother
learns he was nice to Coraline?
E. “Personal connection”: Literature is often more meaningful when we can connect what we read to something that’s going on in
our own lives. A personal connection question asks the reader if he or she can relate in some way to an event or character in the
book. Example: Has your curiosity ever gotten you into trouble?
Using these styles of questions, you will create some of your own questions for the chapters when indicated. (Don’t forget
to answer them!) Look at the descriptions above (A,B,C,D, or E) to determine which type of question you’re supposed to ask.
LOCATE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - PAGE 7
Locate examples of figurative language used in EACH chapter of the novel. There are at least ten per chapter.
Example:
IMAGERY - “She explored the garden. It was a big garden: at the very back was an old tennis court, but no one in the house played
tennis and the fence around the corner had holes in it, and the net had mostly rotted away; there was an old rose garden, filled
with stunted, flyblown rosebushes; there was a rockery that was all rocks; there was a fairy ring, made of squidgy brown
toadstools, which smelled dreadful if you accidentally trod on them.” Pages 2-3.
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HIGHER-LEVEL QUESTIONING
YOU MUST WRITE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES, OR IT WILL NOT COUNT.
Chapter One:
1. (A: Find a detail) How many windows did Coraline count?
2. (B: Explain/Describe) Describe what the garden looked like.
3. (C: Author’s Purpose) Why did the author set this story in England?
4. (D: Prediction/Opinion) Why do you think Coraline wants her mother to lock the door?
5. (E: Personal Connection) What do you do on rainy days when you can’t go outside?
Chapter Two:
1. (A): Why do the mice not like the mist?
2. (B):
3. (C): Why does the author create such poor weather? Why not a nice, sunny day?
4. (D): Make a prediction about the connection between the mice’s message and the reading from the tea leaves.
5. (E): What would you say if someone wanted to read your future? Would you let them? Why or why not?
Chapter Three:
1. (A): What color of gloves does Coraline want?
2. (B): Describe what the “other world” looks like.
3. (C): Why does the author give Coraline such a curious personality?
4. (D):
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5. (E): When has your curiosity gotten you into trouble?
Chapter Four:
1. (A): Why don’t cats need names?
2. (B): Explain what Coraline has to do in order to stay there “forever and always.”
3. (C):
4. (D): Predict why the cat tells Coraline to “hang on” to her protection.
5. (E): If one of your pets could talk, what would he or she sound like? Explain.
Chapter Five:
1. (A):
2. (B): Explain why the policeman doesn’t help Coraline find her parents.
3. (C): Why did the author show Coraline crying?
4. (D): What do you think the cat meant by “a challenge”?
5. (E): What would you do if you found yourself home alone for two days?
Chapter Six:
1. (A):
2. (B):
3. (C): Why didn’t the author create another Coraline in the other world?
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4. (D): Why do you think the other mother does not like the cat?
5. (E): Describe the craziest dream you’ve ever had.
Chapter Seven:
1. (A):
2. (B): Describe the place where Coraline is imprisoned.
3. (C):
4. (D): Predict where the other mother hid the children’s souls.
5. (E): Describe a time when you were really afraid of the dark.
Chapter Eight:
1. (A): Why did the other mother lock Coraline in the cupboard?
2. (B): Explain the deal Coraline makes with the other mother.
3. (C): Why didn’t the author make the outside of the house real?
4. (D):
5. (E):
Chapter Nine:
1. (A): What color are the walls inside the flat?
2. (B):
3. (C):
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4. (D): What do you think the other father looks like in his grub-like state? Draw a picture of him.
5. (E): Describe a time when you were playing a game and the other person cheated.
Chapter Ten:
1. (A):
2. (B):
3. (C): Why does the author enable the rats to speak?
4. (D): Predict what else the other mother has up her sleeve for Coraline.
5. (E):
Chapter Eleven:
1. (A): What color are the marbles?
2. (B): Describe what the other mother looks like at the beginning of the chapter.
3. (C):
4. (D):
5. (E):
Chapter Twelve:
1. (A): Where does Coraline put the key?
2. (B):
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3. (C):
4. (D):
5. (E):
Chapter Thirteen:
1. (A):
2. (B):
3. (C):
4. (D):
5. (E):
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN CORALINE

INCLUDE QUOTATION MARKS AND THE PAGE NUMBER.
Directions: Record examples from each chapter. This will be due the day we finish the book.
Grading Scale: MASTERY (A) = Seven examples from each chapter, quoted, with an MLA citation at the end.
PROFICIENT (B) = Five examples from each chapter, quoted, with page numbers.
APPROACHING (C) = Three examples from each chapter, quoted.
Essential Question: How does a writer use literary devices to create imagery?
CHAPTER ONE:
Personification “It wasn’t the kind of rain you could go out in—it was the other kind, the kind that threw itself down from the
sky” (Gaiman 4).
Imagery “The rain was still coming down, pattering against the windows and blurring the lights of the cars in the street
outside” (Gaiman 7).
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman

LOCATE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - PAGE 7

1. (A: Find a detail) How many windows did Coraline count?

2. (B: Explain/Describe) Describe what the garden looked like.

1. (A): Why do the mice not like the mist?

1. (A): What color of gloves does Coraline want?

2. (B): Describe what the “other world” looks like.

1. (A): Why don’t cats need names?

3. (C): Why did the author show Coraline crying?

4. (D): What do you think the cat meant by “a challenge”?

5. (E): Describe the craziest dream you’ve ever had.

2. (B): Describe the place where Coraline is imprisoned.

1. (A): What color are the walls inside the flat?

3. (C): Why does the author enable the rats to speak?

1. (A): What color are the marbles?

1. (A): Where does Coraline put the key?

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN CORALINE

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