Mister+Monday

20 to 25 Pre-reading Questions

1.Whats the kid's name? 2.What do the evil people look like? 3.Is that a key? 4.Whats the location? 5.What does Mister Monday look like? 6.Where did he find the wand? 7.How is he supposed to die? 8.Whats so important about the clock hands? 9. How old is he? 10.What happens? 11.What are the advantages in the story? 12.What are the disadvantages in the story? 13.Are there clocks involved? 14.Is Mister Monday human? 15.is it going to be a mystery or something else? 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

=__**Characters:**__= Arthur Penhaligon: The main character who is supposed to die an early death. He has bad asthma and is new to his school and town. Ed: One of the only people who has helped, or befriended Arthur, is Leaf's brother. Leaf: One of the only people who has helped, or befriended Arthur, is Ed's sister. Sentinel: Specially created as guardians of the fragment of the will, vaguely human in appearance their skins are luminous steel. Quick and flexible as cats, they have no hands, but two blades where each hand should be. Inspector: A specially chosen being to come check once every hundred years on the fragment of the will. Two mysterious men: Two greater beings who serve a higher master than Mister Monday, and are the first to know about the will "accident". Coach Weightman: Arthur's gym instructor. Dog faced men- With Jowled faces and bowler hats, they keep stalking Arthur but he doesn't know what they want. Eric- Arthur's favorite brother, he is a track and basketball star.

=__**Setting**__ -= the high school the dead star

=__**Themes:**__= mystery suspense horror fantasy

=__**Conflicts:**__= the two men taking the inspector away the will fragment escaping Arthur's asthma Arthur's world gets infected by the the "Sleepy Plague" the old one turns on Arthur Prauivul runs away from Arthur Arthur gets thrown into the Coal Cellar Mister Monday catches Arthur

=__**Plot:**__= the will escapes Arthur is going to die the house appearing no-one except Arthur, Leaf, and Ed can see the house, Mister Monday, and all the other magical things

Prologue:The Sentinels guard the seven pieces of the will, and once every hundred years an inspector comes to check upon the will. But the inspector that comes this year is much more smart. As he checks the wills condition he thinks he sees a small black object, but he forgets about it. As he is about to leave, the will escapes and the Sentinels sound the alarm. Then two men appear and cut an elevator out of the air. They throw him in, and say that he is going to see there master, a more powerfull being than Mister Monday. As the chapter ends he points North-West and says, "not there"!

Chapter 1: Arthur arrives for the first day of school after recovering from an asthma attack. He has to run the track in gym and has another asthma attack. He meets Leaf and Ed who save him. As he is lying on the ground he notices a man in a wheelchair being pushed by another man and the man in the wheelchair tells him he is going to die soon.

Chapter 2: It was Arthur's first day of school and it had to be Monday. On Mondays there was always a run, Arthur is asthmatic so he can't run that well. He was having trouble breathing then he blacked out which means that he fell to the ground unconscious. A girl and her brother found him and were trying to get help. They were successful and Arthur made it to a hospital in time before he died.

Chapter 3: When Arthur went home on Friday with his dad and saw a house that was not like the others he asked his dad about it but he for some reason he could not see it. He got home and took out the atlas, he held the key right next to it and it tripled in size. It open to a page that was suppose ably blank, then words started to appear without anything writing them. So he,Ed,and Leaf were the only ones that could see the House,weird.

Chapter 4:Arthur couldn't sleep because of the key and the atlas. He herd a scratch at his window he sat up and looked at it, there was a dog-faced man at the window saying "let me in, let me in". Then a group of dog like creatures try to come into his room and his glass iguana came to life and scared the dog faced man went away.

Chapter 5:Arthur opens the atlas for a second time. He is so curious about the house, and when he opens the atlas, it tells him all he wants to know about it. He continues to think about the ugly face in his window. He knows someone must have disobeyed the rules and given the fetcher wings. He wonders why he was given the atlas and decides to try to get into the house to figure it out. As he goes to the library, Monday's Noon comes. Arthur hides and the librarian tries to get Noon to go away. As the chapter ends Noon allows the fetchers in.

Chapter 6:The fetchers begin running into the library sniffing for any trace of Arthur. Arthur decides he is going to make a run for the back door. He does but to his horror, the door is locked. Now he is out in the open and the fetchers can see him. He decides to try to use the key, he whispers "unlock" and the door unlocks. He runs outside and whispers "lock" and the door locks. Noon busts the door down and tells him to give him the key, he refuses and throws the key towords the door, runs and grabs the key. He looks at his watch and it reads 12:55, he thinks that at 1:00 Noon will disappear. He stalls Noon and at one, Noon disappears.

Chapter 7:Arthur has gotten rid of Noon, but there are still many fetchers. He thinks for a second, and remembers that the fetchers weakness is salt. Luckily he is close to the teacher's lunchroom where there is plenty of salt. He picks up the tub of salt, throws the lid off and begins throwing hand-fulls at the ranks of fetchers. He wonders what the effect will be. The effect is, thar even if one speck of salt hits them, it begins burning a hole in the fetcher's body. Afterwards, Arthur gets out of the school only to find out that the school has a quaritine infection. The doctors check him out, and as he begins to board a bus, he receives a message from the will telling him to come to the house. He wonders how he is going to get the key on the bus and...

Chapter 8:He pushes the key through his torn pocket and immediately has an asthma attack. He is taken to an ambulance that is taking him to a hospital that is near the house which is just what he wants. As the lady watching over him he goes to the front and realizes that there is a flood. He walks to the house, looks for Monday's Postern, steps into the doorway and walks in...

Chapter 9: Falls into a never-ending shaft. He fell for so long, that he considered dying an option. But then suddenly the key began to drag him toward a doorway. Then finally he entered in through the door-way and noticed he was on a hill, overlooking a village. In the distance he could hardly make out people scurrying around in the village. He thought that he should go down to talk to someone. But just then he heard a voice call out, "come here", it sounded like a man and the voice was coming from right behind him. Someone else can type the rest because I've done all the work on this wiki.

Chapter 10: Arthur get attacked by a creature he was backing up he hit the door he twisted the doorknob it would no twist the creature stretched out over all the neighbors houses.the key got tangled in his shirt he held the key as it was a dagger. the creature has a hungry scary look on its face a frog jumped over Suzy's shoulder. The book ends with Suzy pointing up at a 139 stories of a building.

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19:Now that Arthur has been reunited with Suzy, and has learned how to use the Improbable Stair, he can find his way to Monday's Turse. They land on many landings including one with a huge lizard dinosaur. They continue to go up the stairs as they land on another landing, this one revealing some of Suzy's sad past.

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

__**Vocab Strengthener:**__
Vocab Strengthener Biannual-Something that happens once a year. Tiddlywinks's-A game played on a flat surface in which players attempt to snap small plastic disks in a cup by pressing the edges of the disks with larger ones. Biohazard-1. A pathogen esp. one used in or produced in by biological reaserch. 2.The health risked posed by the possible release of a pathogen into the environment. Palmtops-A computer that is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.

__**Prologue**__

 * Sentinel- To watch over as a guard
 * treacherous-characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous
 * luminous-brilliant intellectually; enlightened or enlightening, as a writer or a writer's works
 * immortal-remembered or celebrated through all time: the immortal words of Lincoln

CHAPTER 1
 * hallucinations-Perception of visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory experiences without an external stimulus and with a compelling sense of their reality, usually resulting from a mental disorder or as a response to a drug.
 * concussion-Pathology. injury to the brain or spinal cord due to jarring from a blow, fall, or the like
 * possession-Law. actual holding or occupancy, either with or without rights of ownership
 * morrow-The following day: //resolved to set out on the morrow//

//maddogzr wrote this//

=//**Day 1 Reading Response Questions**//= The novel starts out with a very confusing explanation of a clock face, trustees, robot guardians, and inspectors. What strategies did you use to make sense of the confusing terminology? How should readers attack reading selections that are similar to this? Arthur starts out the school year in gym class. He has to run and has a health problem. What types of problems have you had to overcome this school year? Why does the author make the "hero" of the story have problems? Describe from the chapter items / instances that you were not expecting to happen or found interesting.

Poke-A-Doke says I just really didn't understand it anyway even when we were reading with the tape so I can't answer the first question. People shouldn't try to understand it if you can't understand it, you don't want to like to hurt your brain. He has to try to control his athsma and make new friends of course, when your the new kid the first thing you want to do is make friends. Oh because that if he has problems hes not perfect like in the movie herculies he was perfect until he drinks that evil bottle. The point is that if people are like indestructible everyone knows that that person will win. I think that he was not expecting that the key was not expecting that it was going to control his life and death that was just shocking.\

piston123 says: Well it started out really odd. It goes from old Seminoles, to inspector, to kid in middle school.It didn't really make much sense. That was really confusing, so i will just ask for help. If you want to know what your talking about than you shouldn't say anything.This book looks really really good but dang, its very confusing. The boy falls over while he is running the track and his class comes, and Mr.Monday comes.

mi7jhoop says The novel starts out with a very confusing explanation of a clock face, trustees, robot guardians, and inspectors. What strategies did you use to make sense of the confusing terminology? How should readers attack reading selections that are similar to this? Arthur starts out the school year in gym class. He has to run and has a health problem. What types of problems have you had to overcome this school year? Why does the author make the "hero" of the story have problems? Describe from the chapter items / instances that you were not expecting to happen or found interesting. Yeah, the beginning was pretty hard to understand, because it only hardly described anything. It just started saying things that didn't make any sense. I reread it to make more sense. They should read slowly and talk to someone about the story. Mostly making new friends, I don't have asthma but I know people who do and it doesn't sound like fun. On the back it says he is supposed to die an early death and he gets the key to save him. I found all of the evil creatures very interesting and weird.

I used tons of strategies 1 is i tried to imagine what is happening to make sense to me. They should stop every chapter and recap on what happens in that chapter. i have overcome headaches,stomachache,and embarrassment.i think the Author made the hero have problems because it would be tacky if the hero did not have anything done to him.

maddogzr writes

__**Day 2 Reading Response Questions:**__
Arthur realizes the dog-faced men are after him and he is frightened. Describe if/why you think the dog-faced men make good villains. What would your perfect villain be like? Give a detailed description. Who is the best villain you've seen, read about, heard of, or met? What made them the best? well i love the big time villains.I like to do the little ones to i like all bad guys .But aver all i like the villains who act all big and have or use a big voice but they really are 3 ft tall and are

maddogzr writes:I think they would not be a good villain in less it was like in spider man or something. It would be a little like the Minotaur off the lightning thief mixed with dog faced human. he would have pink hair with wiry body hair with blood dripping out of its mouth it would be so scary. Venom of spider man would have to be my favorite villain. He is really powerful and is better than most villains witch makes him my favorite super hero.He also can spit venom.if you don't believe me watch spider man 3 it is good but it is getting into love scenes so in some parts it is boring but in other it is good in other.

Poke-A-Doke says I think the dog-faced men make good villains because you don't find dog-faced men that often. My perfect viilain would be worse than any other villain you've ever seen, he would have bright red eyes and have a a sort of leather cloak with a sort of staff that had the colors green, blue, and red. The green for wind power, the blue for water power, the red for fire power. If I made a book the plot would be some hero kid would be some sort of prophecy fulfiller and he would have to get the staff. The person with the staff would rule that country and obviously he isn't the hero. The best villain I've ever herd of is well I guess Dr. No from James Bond and I know I talk about this stuff so keep your thoughts to yourself, Basketball4life especially you.

I think dog-faced men make really good villains because they are basicly like werewolves, and werewolves are awesome. My perfect villain would be a swordsman, but with a flaming sword. He would be the sever of really evil people that were like zombies. His name would be Zaroon, and he can control all of the elements and can use magic. The best villain ever (in my opinion) would be the Green Goblin. He has so many weapons and is good at tricking people. I think what makes him the best is simply because he will stop at nothing to destroy Spider-Man. My favorite weapon he uses is the bomb things. from mi7jhoop    

__**Day 3 Wiki Repsonse Question:**__
In reading, strong readers often make connections to help make their book more interesting, exciting, and desirable to read. One type of connection is a text to text connection. This means that the reader is connecting some aspect of the current book they're reading to another book they've read. List three (3) text to text (t-t) connections you've made so far about your novel.

maddogzr writes:1 it is weird 2 it is weird the lightning thief

3 it is a novel 4 tuck everlasting is a novel

5 it is interesting 6 harry potter is interesting to

7 it has some action 8 007 has action also

Poke-A-Dork says

I've read the Harry Potter books and those seem to have a lot connections to mister Monday for one the key is like a wand in the book. Also there are three main characters for example Arthur, Leaf and, Ed, in Harry Potter there is Harry, Ron, and Hermione. There is also a main bad guy and in Harry Potter there is Voldemort and in Mister Monday there is Mister Monday himself.

Yes like in certain books, like Harry Potter, or Eragon or ,Eldest there are realatons. like our book Mr.Monday is Mr.Monday is like the Voldomort and the Eragon is king Galbatorix.They all have these kinds of connections.That is how books all connect it really brings it out! from pistons123

Well, one connection I made was between Arthur and Eragon, because they both start out as "nobodies" and end up as "somebodies". A second connection I made was that in Harry Potter the main characters are two boys and a girl, (Hermione, Ron, and Harry). Same with Mister Monday, two boys and a girl, with one main character, (Leaf, Ed, and Arthur). The third connection I made was the bad guys, there is one main and then his servants, Voldemort, King Galbatorix, and Mister Monday and they all had minions. from mi7jhoop

__Day 4 Wiki Response Questions:__

 * Connecting prior knowledge and experience to reading deepens comprehension. I would like you to explain one type of connection that you've made with the book you've been reading.** __List__ and __explain__ the __type of connection made__ & __answer how this helped you to understand the story better__.

The four types of connections are: Text-to-Text (T-T) These connections made between the text and you are reading and what you have read elsewhere.

Text-to-World (T-W) These are connections made between the text you are reading and the bigger issues and events going on in the world.

Text-to-Self (T-S) These are connections made between the text you are reading and your own experiences.

Text-Within-Text (T-W-T) These are connections made between the text you are reading and another section of the same text.

text-to-Text. Every time I hear Arthur's name it reminds me of Eragon. The reason for this is because they are both chosen to be given something important. Arthur was given the key, and Eragon was given the dragon egg. They also both had to figure out how to use them. The last thing is that they were both great books.
 * mi7jhoop says:

text to text.When i hear about Arthur in the book i think of Harry Potter Arthur is like Arthur Hermione is like leaf and the other guy is like ed they all have things in common. Harry Potter can use great magic but his scar puts him through pain. Arthur is strong but has a strong time breathing!** pistons123

text-to-text.every time action starts i think of lord of the rings it has blood and gore in it but not in mister Monday .action is not very bad in mister Monday .in lord of the rings it has bad actions it has people getting there head cut off witch is cool if you like that kind of stuff but if not don't read lord of the rings .but read mister Monday it is an awesome book! maddogzr wrote this

Poke-A-Dork says Text To World- Arthur is kinda like me with his issues with his athsma, I mean I don't like to run or anything so I don't run that often but everyone thinks that I just can't run because I can't run. The only thing is I have athsma and everyone gets proud when I run for like six minutes. They all think that they are building up some sort of fake self-esteem well I could do better just like Arthur if I don't have athsma I could run as fast as anyone else. Its not that I can't run its just that I don't want to.

__Day 5 Wiki Response Questions:__

 * Arthur needs to make a journey down into the Deep Coal Cellar. Along the way he gets assistance from a number of individuals. Why does Arthur always need to "prove himself" to these individuals? What does "prove yourself" mean to you? The Deep Coal Cellar lives up to it's name. Describe the scariest / darkest place(s) you've ever been.

Well sometimes people under-estimate you. They think nothing of you and think you have nothing but sometimes people need to get the idea that you are better than you think. People can and are better than others think: pistons123

mi7jhoop says Arthur needs to make a journey down into the Deep Coal Cellar. Along the way he gets assistance from a number of individuals. Why does Arthur always need to "prove himself" to these individuals? What does "prove yourself" mean to you? The Deep Coal Cellar lives up to it's name. Describe the scariest / darkest place(s) you've ever been. Because Dawn is definitely more powerful then him and e can't let him down. Also Prauival may turn his back to him if he doesn't get what he wants. Prove yourself means to me, showing yourself that you can do something that you didn't think/ know you can do. The scariest place I've ever been was the wood behind my grandparents house. Its a lot bigger than you think, it is 220 acres of woods, I played hide and seek in the dark at around 9:00 and it was really spooky. I don't think I would ever do it again.**

maddogzr writes I think Arthur thinks he has to prove himself to the people so he can think that he is the head cheese (in charge) so that they will listen to him when he tells them something.I think prove your self means to do anything to get charge of someone or something.The most scariest place I have been in is my friends spook house were as soon as I walked in I felt a cold rush down my leg and it was all foggy and I was quiet I knew something was going to pop soon so I am walking through this and it is pitch black so I am running into walls and all of a sudden there was a big scream ahead all of a sudden boom!heads were gouging out of the walls it was scary the lites all of a sudden the came on a little bit just so you can see there was a guy standing face to face with me I screamed so loud I punched the guy in the face and threw him into the wall I ran as fast as I could something grabbed me feet I fell and got banged up a little bit but I was okay I shook it off and started to run again all of a sudden I was out I fell down to catch my breath.I will never do that again I was in for a good scare.

Poke-A-Dork says I'm really not afraid of the dark and I'm not claustrophobic so I don't get scared when I'm all alone in the dark. If I had to say the the only thing that barely scares me is that I have a little human sized hole under my bed and thats probably the worst thing.

__Day 6 Wiki Response Questions:**__ Good readers make many predictions while they are reading. Some predictions turn out to be true, while others are "off."

List some of your predictions you made while reading this novel.

What would you predict would happen if there was a sequel to this novel? What direction might the author take with the characters?

Would you recommend the novel to others? Why or why not? Explain. mi7jhoop writes: Some predictions I made while reading the novel was that Arthur would die and then a god-like guy (Mister Monday) would come and give him a wand like thing and he would come alive again. Another prediction I made was there would be wizards and orc like guys (Lord of the Rings) that would attack him and there would be an evil king he had to destroy. Well, since there is a sequel, I'm guessing that Sir Tuesday is like Mister Monday and has another clock hand that Arthur needs to stop the Sleepy Plauge. I would recommend this novel to others because it is really cool, and it is the one of the best books I've ever read, Garth Nix is a great author!

Poke-A-Dork says The prediction that I made was is that I would totally HATE this book but it turned out sweet. I can't really tell you what my favorite part was because you have to read the book for yourself and you will find some awesome parts for you, not your mom, or your dad, or your sister/brother

maddogzr writes MY prediction was that the book was going to be all boring and that but it starts out boring then better and better this book will make you want to read more and more.You will get to the point were you will not want to put the book down it is awesome read this book you will love it if you have paytions read this book.I also made a prediction why i was reading that Arthur was going to die in the first chapter when he had his asthma attack there is so many things get you jumpy and exciting.i was also making a prediction that something weird in the box.