Aha

Rafiki helps Simba reach an AHA moment about what he should do next.  What is his AHA moment?

• Simba is not responsible for his father's death.  

• He will change for his father

• Rafiki helps him change his behavior

• He decides Rafiki has contradicted his previous behavior

Luke is a third child in the book, Among the Hidden.  He describes being bored and lonely, but then has an AHA moment.  What is it? 

• He can help other thirds come out of hiding.

• He decides to fight back and come out of hiding

• His behavior changes drastically as he decides to help.

• His behavior contrasts with his previous behavior

In The Maze Runner, Thomas has an AHA moment when he goes into the maze after Minho and Alby.  What is it? 

• He realizes Alby is badly hurt

• He realizes the maze is haunted

• He realizes what a dangerous situation he's gotten himself into, and that he will likely not survive

• He realizes that Minho was wrong about the maze, and that grievers aren't real

In the short film, "Snack Attack," the old lady has an AHA moment when...

• She realizes that she'd been eating the boy's snack the whole time

• She realizes the boy was being selfish

• She realizes that she should have shared her snack

• She realizes that you should treat others the way you want to be treated

When you come across an AHA moment in your book, you should ask yourself...

• Why is the character doing that?

• How might this change things?

• What is the theme?

• Why didn't he think of that earlier?

If a character has an AHA moment and understands a life lesson, you probably just learned about the...

• theme

• conflict

• genre

• setting

Why is an AHA moment a way to tell the theme?

• The character fails to learn a valuable lesson

• The reader can understand the plot better

• The character suddenly realizes the life-lesson, and that helps the reader learn the lesson

• The theme has nothing to do with AHA moments, but with contrasts and contradictions

The AHA moment is always a positive realization...

• true

• false

Which word or phrase does NOT signal an AHA moment?

• Suddenly

• eureka!

• finally understood

• probably 

Which word or phrase IS associated with an AHA moment?

• in an instant

• over the course

• next time

• Furthermore