Briar Rose worksheet 1 pages 1-100

Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Use complete sentences.

1. Summarize the story so far in just two sentences.

2. What does Becca really know about her grandmother, Gemma?

3. How is this story similar to Of Mice and Men. List two similarities.

4. Comment on the way Yolen utilizes the fairy tale in Briar Rose. Does this spoil the basic story about Gemma, or spoil the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, in any way?

5. What did Gemma mean when she said, “the future is when people talk about the past.”

6. What did Stan mean from his quotation from Shakespeare, “the past is prologue.”

7. Did using the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, in a tale about the Holocaust ruin that fairy tale for you in any way?

8. Gemma had said, “I am Briar Rose.” How is she like Briar Rose? List three similarities between Briar Rose in the fairy tale and Gemma.

9. What is the author’s purpose in writing this story? (to entertain, to describe, to inform, to persuade). Provide two details from the story to support your answer.

10. Based on information from this story so far, predict what Becca will most likely find out about her grandmother, Gemma.