Plot Elements The Bicycle and the Sweet-Shop

What is the setting of the bicycle and the sweet-shop?

• Llandaff Cathedral School

• Mrs. Pratchett's house

• The sweet shop in Llandaff

• Llandaff Cathedral

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Who is the antagonist?

• Roald Dahl

• Mrs. Pratchett

• Four friends

• Mouse

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Who is the protagonist?

• Roald Dahl

• Mrs. Pratchett

• Four friends

• Mouse

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Which sentences state the conflict/problem?

• Each of us received sixpence a week for pocket-money, and whenever there was any money in our pockets, we would all troop in together to buy a pennyworth of this or that.

• She was a small skinny old hang with a moustache on her upper lip a mouth as sour as a green-gooseberry.

• The sweet shop in Llandaff in the year 1923 was the very center of our lives. But it had one terrible drawback, this sweet-shop. The woman who owned it was a horror.

• Sweets were our life blood. We would have put up with far worse than that to get them.

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CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What elements of the exposition are correct?

• Characters: Roald, Mrs. Pratchett

  Setting: Landaff Cathedral

  Problem: He doesn't have enough money for candy.

• Characters: Roald, Mrs. Pratchett

  Setting: Landaff sweet-shop in 1923

  Problem: He doesn't have enough money for candy.

• Characters: Roald, Mrs. Pratchett

  Setting: Landaff sweet-shop in 1923

  Problem: Mrs. Pratchett who owns the candy shop is a horror and the boys hated her.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Which passages of text supports that Mrs. Pratchett is the antagonist? Select all that apply.

• She never welcomed us when we when we went in, and the only times she spoke were when she said things like, 'I'm watchin' you so keep yer thievin' fingers off them chocolates!'

• The other thing we hated Mrs. Pratchett for was her meaness.

• But it had one terrible drawback, this sweet-shop. The woman who owend it was horror.

• So you can well understand that we had it in for Mrs. Pratchett in a big way, but we didn't quite know what to do about it.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which sentences make this story a memoir?

• When I was seven, my mother decided I should leave kindergarten and go to a boy's school.

• My second and only other memory of Llandaff Cathedral School is exremely bizarre.

• By then I had made some friends and boys of my own age along the way.

• On the way to school and on the way back we always passed the sweet-shop.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10