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You will work with me during the week on these questions as well as discussion questions. The discussion question will change weekly and you will need to come prepared to discuss this during our meetings. You will be given time in class to read the assigned chapters but it is expected that you will spend some of your 20 minutes a night homework reading time as well. Please use your time appropriately.

Chapter 7

1. Who are Annabeth's parents?

2. What does it mean to be "undetermined"?

4. Why are some kids summer campers and others year-'rounders? Which would you rather be?

5. What do the beads mean on Annabeth's necklace?

6. Why is Annabeth frustrated when she and Percy talk about quests?

7. Why does Luke feel bitter?

8. Why does Percy ask for a blue Coke at dinner?

9. What does Percy wish for as he puts his dinner into the fire?

10. In what way does Percy feel different once he gets to the bonfire?

Chapter 8

Chapter 9
 * 1) Why are the counselors having a hard time deciding who Percy’s Olympian parent is?
 * 2) How does Percy surprise everyone during his first sword class? How do you think he was able to do this?
 * 3) According to Grover, why did the “Big Three” gods swear never to have any more children?
 * 4) Why does the story about Thalia make Percy feel “hollow and guilty”?
 * 5) In capture-the-flag, why does Percy feel like he’s being left out of the action?
 * 6) How does Percy manage to overcome the kids from Ares’s cabin?
 * 7) What was Annabeth’s plan to win the flag?
 * 8) Why does Annabeth make Percy stand in the water?
 * 9) What does Chiron say about how the hellhound got into camp?
 * 10) When you find out Percy’s true identity, are you surprised or did you see it coming? What clues were given earlier in the book?


 * 1) Why does Percy feel miserable once he gets his own cabin?
 * 2) Based on the newspaper article Percy finds under his door, what is happening in the real world while Percy is in camp?
 * 3) What is the master bolt?
 * 4) Why does Zeus think Percy stole the bolt?
 * 5) Why can’t the gods retrieve the bolt themselves?
 * 6) What bothers Percy about the Oracle’s prophecy?
 * 7) According to Chiron, what evidence suggests that Hades stole the lightning bolt?
 * 8) Why does Percy have to travel overland?
 * 9) What will happen on the summer solstice if the lightning bolt is not returned?
 * 10) What is unusual about the storm that moves in over camp?