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About This Passage
These two short sentences show the joyful moment when Jack stops being scared and starts being amazed. The first sentence uses 'felt like' to compare Jack's feeling to a bird. The second sentence uses one strong verb — RUSHING — to make us feel the wind ourselves. Young writers will practice using 'felt like' to compare a feeling to a familiar thing, and using strong verbs to put the reader inside the moment.
Jack felt like a bird. The wind was rushing through his hair.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell someone what happened in this chapter in order. When you get to the most important part, slow down and tell it carefully — what happened, why it mattered, and what you think about it.
Discussion Questions
- Jack thinks 'I'm too heavy' before he climbs onto the pteranodon's back. Then he says to himself, 'Don't think, just do it.' Where have we heard those words before? Why does Jack repeat them now?
- When Jack is on the back of the pteranodon flying through the prehistoric sky, the author writes that he 'whooped and laughed.' Why does the author have him laugh? How is this feeling different from the feelings he had earlier in the book?
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