The Tiger Rising - Nebo School District

1 The Tiger Rising Level W. Page Summary Questions Comprehension Vocabulary Strategies 1-10 Chapter 1 See the back Theme abiding (1). Rob didn't want to ever go to School so he of the book for notion (1). went into the woods on a foggy, rainy, questions Florida day where he found a Tiger . It had Inference been 6 months since he and his father had What do the moved to Lister from Jacksonville. characters Chapter 2 words tell sullen(4). After getting out he waited for the bus. about them? Norton and Billy Threemonger always gave him trouble. On the bus they harassed him about is rash and everything else until the bus driver stopped early and picked up a The author little, blonde girl. talks about Chapter 3 Sistine's She was dressed in a pink, lacy dress. She words being held her own when talking to Norton and cookie cutter. Billy. She was very careful and proper What does that when she talked.

2 Mean? Rob's mother had died 6 months ago and since then he had been packing his emotions in like a suitcase that was ready to burst. He and his father had moved from Kentucky. 11-21 Chapter 4 ignorant (11). Sistine introduced herself in homeroom (6th grade). She talked of living in Philadelphia and wanting to leave the South because people here are ignorant. Rob sat and drew a Tiger as she talked. He wanted to whittle it. His mom had taught him when she was sick. Rob got called to the office. On the way out he got tripped, made fun of and Sistine threw him a mean hateful look. Chapter 5. In the principal's office, Mr. Phelmer said he was worried about Rob. Parents had called and were worried the rash on his legs was contagious. Mr. Phelmer asked him if Rob had been putting the medicine they had contagious gotten him on it. He said yes. Mr. Phelmer (15). said Rob needed to stay home until his rash What can you buoyed (18).

3 Cleared up. The principal wrote Rob a letter infer about the to his father. Rob left happy, knowing his characters and legs would never clear up. He was free. the setting Chapter 6 from clues At lunch he did not go into the cafeteria like orange because Norton and Billy were in there. plastic chair in Food didn't taste as good since his mom the office, died anyway. Sitting there looking at his The Tiger drawing, Sistine came marching out of author doesn't the lunchroom, head held high. As she tell, she shows noticed him she was hit with an apple. She turned back around and started swinging. Rob stood up to see what was happening and then started yelling for everyone to stop. They stopped and asked what he was going to do to make them stop. He then started running and everyone chased him. They never caught him, but he did save her. He was now late for English and his Tiger picture had dropped out of his pocket.

4 22-34 Chapter 7. On the bus ride home Sistine sits next to Rob. She tells him it's the only available seat. She complains about the town being full of hicks and no one knowing where the Sistine Chapel is. Rob responds by telling her of the Frescoes and it's location in Italy. He then tells her he doesn't have to go back to School because of his legs. She puts her hand on his leg, praying out loud that she might catch it. He told her it wasn't contagious, but she doesn't listen. He tells on living in the motel, Kentucky Star as a temporary spot until their feet are back on the ground. He can't believe how much he is speaking to her, since normally he makes it a point to never talk. Norton came up behind him to start beating on him again and Rob was glad that he wouldn't have to speak to Sistine anymore. Chapter 8. When Rob got home his father read the letter from the principal and said he would get a note from the doctor saying it wasn't contagious.

5 He also told Rob he could have a few days off. Rob would eventually have to fight those boys or they would never leave him alone. He also told Rob he would need to help his dad around the hotel because Mr. Beauchamp gave him too much to do. His dad made burned, soggy mac and cheese. He said Rob could eat as much as he wanted because he wasn't hungry, but after he fell asleep Rob could hear his father's stomach grumbling. Personification: rain Rob pulled out a piece of maple to start gently drumming its whittling the Tiger . Half way through, he fingers on the roof realized he had carved Sistine instead. That (32). night he had a dream that Sistine was riding the Tiger through the woods. Chapter 9. Rob's dad woke him up at 5:30 the next day to go work. Outside he saw the motel Kentucky star neon. It was his wishing star. He didn't wish on it because he didn't think he would be able to stop.

6 He put his not- wishes in the suitcase too. He got some coffee and went out to sit with his dad on the front porch. He was glad it was muggy and rainy. He hated the sunshine. It reminded him of his mother's funeral. They then left for the maintenance shed. His dad was singing a song he used to sing with his wife. He quickly stopped. Rob slowed down to give his father space and to stare into the forest in hopes of seeing glowing eyes or a flicking tail. 35-44 Chapter 10. Rob saw Willie May in the laundry room. He stopped to talk and she asked why he wasn't in School . He told her and she said his leg rash was caused by sadness. He needed to let the sadness rise to his heart leprosy (39). where it belonged. She let a cigarette and chewed a piece of licorice gum. She gave a piece to him, then left. Chapter 11. The bus drove by the next morning with Norton and Billy yelling out the window that Rob was a leper.

7 Sistine then walked up to him to give him his homework. She was wearing a torn green dress and her knuckles were bloody. He didn't want to talk, but finally told her that he had seen a Tiger . She merely asked him, Where? . Chapter 12. Rob tells Sistine they have to go through the woods so she asks to borrow some clothes. He takes her inside. She looks around and then notices the little village of things he had whittled: a blue jay, pine tree, his dad's foot and Sistine herself. She examined them one by one, gently laying them back down. Then she noticed her and told him she felt she was looking in a little wooden mirror. He gave her some clothes and went out to wait for her on the porch. 45-55 Chapter 13. Sistine tells of her mom living in Lister palmettos when she was young. She said if she ever (45). left, she would not come back, but Sistine's father had an affair with his secretary.

8 Her mom left her dad and moved back to Lister. He dad will be here soon to take Sistine back to Pennsylvania. Sistine then asks about Rob's mom. He won't tell her so she stomps off telling him she didn't want to see his Tiger anyway. Rob chases her back down and tells her about his mom dying. The turn back to look for the Tiger . Chapter 14. They find the Tiger in a rusty, chain-link cage, triple padlocked. He's pacing back and forth. Sistine wants to set him free, sawing off the padlocks, but Rob said the Tiger wasn't his to save. They hear a car so Rob grabs Sistine's hand and they begin to run. Sistine asks if someone was behind them and Rob shrugs his shoulders. Sistine gets upset because she hates it when he shrugs his shoulders. He remembers Willie May telling him he looks like a baby bird trying to fly and he begins to laugh. Sistine laughs too. He feels a familiar, but elusive feeling Rising in him.

9 He realizes its happiness. Chapter 15. Rob bursts out of the forest laughing. His dad sees him and calls to him asking if he has done all of his chores. Rob says yes and that they just went into the forest. His dad asks why the girl is in his clothes and he explains. He then tells Sistine that there is a pay phone in the laundry room. Sistine asks for change to call her mom. She leaves and Rob goes inside noticing how dark it is now and how bright it used to be when his mom was alive especially at Christmas when she would hand lights outside of their home. 56-68 Chapter 16 What do the billowed (63). Mrs. Bailey comes to pick up Sistine. She high heels tell tries to usher Sistine into the car, but she you about Mrs. doesn't move, until her mom acknowledges Bailey? Rob. She's wearing high heels and is acting a bit snooty. She obviously doesn't belong in Lister. Sistine asks Rob for his mom's name, and how she died.

10 He tells her that his mom died of cancer, but nothing more. He stood quiet. As she walks away, he What did whispers, Caroline. He loves the way his Willie May mom's name sounds. mean when Chapter 17 she said, Who The next day Robert was talking to Willie don't know May and asking her if she had ever been to something in a a zoo. She said she had been once. He cage? (64). asked if it was right to keep animals locked up and she tells a story of a little green Do you think parakeet she had when she was a girl. She Willie feels talks of letting it go and her dad getting like she is in a upset that she had just given a snake his cage? How? supper. Rob then tells her that he knows of something in a cage. She replies, with, Who don't know something in a cage? . Chapter 18. As Rob was sweeping the front, red-headed Mr. Beauchamp drove up in his jeep. He asked Rob if they were paying him to work.