◼︎ Chapter 13
ALWAYS: Write your favorite sentence from this chapter.
Why did you choose this one?
Lina “always went fast.”
When might “going fast” be a good thing?
List at least three examples.
When might “going fast” not be such a good idea?
List at least three examples.
Clary says, “Everyone has some darkness inside. It’s like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.”
What is Clary talking about?
Give at least two examples from The City of Ember.
Give at least two examples from real life.
Clary says the letters Egres don’t suggest Egreston, but “egress.”
What does egress mean?
When archeologists find ancient manuscripts, they often find only fragments.
How do archeologists decipher (decode) what these manuscripts say?
Hint: Think about what Doon and Lina are doing to understand what “The Instructions” say.
Doon can’t sleep because he is worried.
What is Doon so worried about?
Why doesn’t Doon tell his father what he’s worried about?
BONUS: Write a question for this chapter.
Answer your own question.
Archaeology is the study of things that people made, used, and left behind.
The goal of archaeology is to understand what people of the past were like and how they lived.
Scientists who study archaeology are called archaeologists.
• The manuscript Lina found. Thanks to Poppy, this manuscript is in fragments.
A manuscript is a handwritten or typed document, especially a writer's first version of a book before it is published.
A manuscript is an old document that was written by hand before printing was invented.