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What grade does Mr Terupt teach?
What month does Because of Mr. Terupt start?
What kind of teacher is the best hope to get?
Which character first narrates BOMT?
What grade is Peter entering?
What is the name of the rookie teacher?
Where does Peter go to get out of doing work?
Where are the bathrooms located?
What did Peter's brother say you would have to clean the
toilets with if you got caught plugging them with toilet paper?
5th grade
September
Brand-new
Peter
Fifth
Mr. Terupt
The bathrooms
Right across the hall
A tooth brush
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Who is the pirncipal?
What are the two nicknames Mr. Terupt wanted to give Peter
for using the restroom?
What table did Peter sit at?
Who sat right next to Peter?
What is the name of the school where Mr Terupt teaches?
What was the name of the school?
What state does the book take place?
What color hair does Mr.s Williams have?
Who is Jessica's Mom?
Two part question: What is the name of Jessica's new school
and who is the principal?
Where is Jessica from?
Where is Jessica's dad?
What does Jessica's dad do?
Mrs. Williams
Mr. Peebody Pee-er
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Number Three
Marty
Snow Hill School
Snow Hill School
Connecticut
Brown
Julie Whiteman
Snow Hill School AND Mrs. Williams.
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California
California
Write plays
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How many fifth grade classrooms are there?
Four
What room is Mr. Terupts?
What table does Jessica sit at?
Two
What book did Jessica have with her on the first day of school? A Wrinkle in Time
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Who gets all A's?
Who likes to wear flashy clothes?
Who is always involved in some Girl War?
What Dollar Word did Peter call out?
What was the first Dollar Word?
How long did they do Dollar Words for?
How many Dollar Words did Luke eventually get?
What Dollar Word did Mr. Terupt use to describe Luke's list?
Luke
Alexia
Alexia
Buttocks
Buttheads
Three Weeks
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Excellent
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What do Alexa's friends call her?
What color lip gloss did Alexia put on?
Who starts the girl war?
Who is "no good at school?"
Who is "a little heavy?"
Who is Danielle's brother?
Where does Danielle live?
Who says to God, "Do what you can to teach Alexia a lesson. If
you made her fat, that would be all right by me."?
Lexie
Rock Star Purple
Alexia.
Jeffrey
Danielle
Charlie
On a farm
(Danielle's) Grandma.
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Who is Anna's best friend?
Her mom
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What does Mrs. Williams do if there is a big surprise coming?
Winks
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What could Anna tell right away about Mr. Terupt?
How could Anna tell that Mr. Terupt was a reader?
What is Anna's mom studying?
Who's mom is a library assistant at another school?
What unit excited Peter?
Who cried because they didn't want to put their plant in a box?
He is a reader
There were books all over the classroom
Art
Anna
Plan Unit
Anna
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Who was Peter's partner for the Plant Unit?
Peter used cat litter, soda, and what other ingredient for his
plant food?
How long did it take for Peter's plant to die?
Who says, "Man, things were just so much fun with Mr. T."?
Lexie
Maple Syrup
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Two days
Peter.
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Who has been the smartest kid since kindergarten?
What happened when Luke mixed his plant food ingredients
together?
What Dollar Word did Luke use to describe Jeffrey?
What did Luke receive for Christmas last year?
What dollar word did Mr. Terupt use to describe what could
happen when Luke mixed his ingredients together?
Who started laughing when Luke's plant food began to smoke?
Luke
It started smoking
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Grumpy
A Chemistry Set
Explodes
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Peter
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What did the janitors want Mr. Terupt to take off the walls?
Math Posters
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What was the one word that was on Jeffrey's math poster?
Who didn't want their plant to die?
Who stays away from Alexia?
Who's mom had her when she was 16?
Who was Anna's partner for the plant project?
Who was reading, "Where the Red Fern Growns?"
What did Danielle sketch into the dirt?
What did Alexia remind Jessica of when she talked?
What grade did Lexie start her "mean games?"
What math problem, involving a soccer field, did Mr. Terupt
want his class to solve?
Who did Peter throw his cardboard at?
How many blades of grass are in a soccer field (rounded
number okay0?
What book did Mr. Terupt have his class read in November?
stupid
Anna
Anna
Anna
Danielle
Jessica
Two dogs
A bobble head
Third
How many blades of grass are in a soccer field
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Lexie
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The Summer of the Swans
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Where did Mr. Terupt want his class to visit while readin The
Summer of the Swans?
Who is the teacher of the Collaborative Classroom?
What is the name of the classroom that James goes to?
Why did James say "712"
What kind of cards was Jeffrey sorting on the playground?
Which student did Jessica ask why they were in the
Collaborative Classroom because they seemed really smart?
The Collaborative Classroom
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Miss Kelsey
Collaborative Classroom
Number of utensils on the table
Football
James.
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Who knew that James was autistic?
Jeffrey
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What did Alexia constantly reminding Peter of in retaliation for
him hitting her with the Frisbee?
Who does Alexia thinks likes her?
Who changed Peter's mind about the students in the
Collaborative Classroom?
What remarkable skill did James have?
What did James give to Peter?
Who did Peter want to invite to the class holiday party?
What holiday did Jessica choose?
Who helped Danielle with the research on Ramadan?
What was Jeffrey's idea to teach people about Ramadan?
Who said, "I'm never talking to Alexia again."
What room is positioned directly across the hall from Mr.
Terupt's classroom?
What did Peter put on the bottom of Luke's shoes?
Who did Luke see Mr. Terupt talking to in the hallway?
Who slipped in the water on the classroom floor?
Who was always yelling in Alexia's life?
Two part question: What character from a book does Jessica
use to tell her friend that talking helps and who was that
friend?
What was Jeffrey's brother's name?
Who did Jeffrey know that had Down Syndrome?
Why did Jeffrey's parents have him?
That he killed their plant.
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Peter
James
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He could tell you many many things were there just
by looking at them
Low Fives
James and his friends (or Collaborative Classroom)
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Ramadan
Jeffrey
Trivia Game
Danielle
The bathroom.
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Glue
Alexia
Mrs. Williams
Her mom and dad
Ida B AND Jeffrey.
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Michael
His older brother
So he could save his brother
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Who did Anna invite to her house?
Who was the character in the Ramadan holiday group that
nobody had wanted in their group?
What did Danielle make for the holiday center
Where is Jessica's mom working part time?
Whose parents are getting divorced?
Who says that their mom doesn't have any friends?
What is Anna's mom's name?
Who works in a library?
Who asked if the reward for the free day could be to go
outside in the snow?
Two part question: What does Jessica need to borrow for the
class free day and where did she move from where she didn't
need it?
Who is going to loan Jessica snow pants?
How many links to it take for the class to earn their party?
Who won the estimate for chains to reach the floor?
What did Anna win for estimating the number of links to reach
the floor?
Who was the second winner of the estimation of chain links?
Jessica and Danielle
Alexia.
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Cookies
Book Store
Jessica
Jessica.
Terri
Terri (or Anna's mom)
Peter
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Snow pants AND California.
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Luke
Anna
A homework pass
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Peter
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Why does Luke like Jessica?
How many Christmas' has Jeffrey had since Michael's death?
Because she is serious about school
Two
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What game did Petere play with Mr. T, Luke, and Jeffrey?
Which character stuffs a snowball in their pocket?
Scattegories
Peter.
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What did Mr. T say when they were heading outside?
What did Peter stuff in his pocket when they went outside?
"No Snowballs"
A snowball
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Who did Peter knock down the snow hill?
Which character kicked snow in Peter's face?
Who held Peter's face in the snow?
Two part question: Jessica describes Alexia's scream using
which two words?
Who threw the snowball that injured Mr Terupt?
Who went into a coma?
Who called the parents to tell everyone what had happened to
Mr. Terupt?
What hospital room was Mr. Terupt in?
Who was the first student to visit Mr. Terupt?
What is the name of Danielle's brother who dropped her off?
Alexia
Alexia.
Luke
Piercing AND horrified.
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Peter
Mr. Terupt
Mrs. Williams
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Luke
Charlie.
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What is wrong with the red ford that Charlie drives?
How old is Danielle's brother, Charlie?
What is the name of Jessicas mom?
What is the best thing about Anna's place?
What did Jessica take to the hospital for Mr. T?
What did Anna take to the hospital for Mr. T?
What did Danielle take to the hospital for Mr. T?
What would trigger the memory of the accident for Danielle?
Dent in drivers side door
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Julie or Ms. Writeman
Artwork hanging on the walls
Book
Plant
Sketch
Snow
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What did the hospital smell of?
Rubbing alcohol and Iodine
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Al Capone does my Shirts
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he liked happy endings /calmed her nerves to hold
the book
Danielle.
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Alexia
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Thank You
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Rode her bike
Alexia.
Peter
She got Peter mad enough to throw the snowball
Jeffrey.
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She suggested going outside, and pushed Peter
down
Mr. Wilkins
Wrestling
He had a lot of concussions
temporal
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Brain
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What is the name of the book Jessica bought for Mr. T in
hospital?
Why did Jessica bring the book for Mr. T?
Who was glad that they couldn't see inside of Mr. Terupt's
room before entering because they may have run back to to
the car had they seen what Mr. Terupt looked like?
Who was in Mr. T's hospital room when Jessica, Danielle and
Anna arrived?
What did Jessica say to Mr. T as she walked out of his room at
the hospital?
How did Alexia get to the hospital to see Mr. T?
Who wiped their face on Mr. Terupt's covers?
How threw the snowball at Mr.T?
Why does Anna think its her fault Mr. T is in hospital?
Who wanted to know how many tubes they had hooked up to
Mr. Terupt?
Why does Danielle think its her fault Mr. T is in hospital?
What is the name of Mr. Ts doctor?
What sport did Mr. T do in college?
Why did Mr. T give up his sport in college?
What dollar word is used to describe where the snowball hit
Mr. T?
What type of surgery will Mr. T need?
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Which teacher told the doctors about Mr. Ts past concussions? Ms Newbery
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Who was the substitute teacher while Mr. T was in hospital
Mrs. Williams
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What is one of the dollar words describing class now Mr. T isnt
there
Who is leaving the collaborative classroom
Who was the first student to talk to Peter again after the
accident?
Who told Jeffrey that things happen for a reason?
How did Charlie's truck get dented?
Who put the dent in Charlies truck door?
In which month did Mr. T have his surgery?
Who blurted out the question to the doctor "how long will his
operation take"?
What did Jeffery take to the hospital on surgery day?
What color scrubs was the doctor who told the class about Mr.
Terupt's surgery wearing?
Who asks Danielle if they can pray with her while the class is in
the waiting room for Mr. Terupt?
Jessica asks her mom "Isn't that one of the reasons he (Mr.
Terupt) was so special, because he gave us those" what?
secreting, unbroken
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James
James
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Jessica.
Anna's mother kicked it when she was mad
Annas mom
May
Anna.
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The microphone
(Lime) green.
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Anna.
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Chances.
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Why does Danielle tell God that she's mad at Him even though He didn't listen to Danielle, if he had Mr. Terupt
she doesn't want to be?
would be there.
Who showed up on the last day of school?
Mr. Terupt
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Two part question: Who tells the class that they will move up Mrs. Williams (the principal) AND looping.
to the next grade with Mr. Terupt as their teacher and what is
the term she used for it?
What will be different about the experimental year next year ? Mr. Terupts class will be Looping
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Jeffrey decides that sometimes school can actually be great
and why does he think next year is going to be great?
Because Mr. Terupt is back.
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Which bus does Anna take
Who does Danielle say, "P.S. I'm sorry I got mad at you" to?
bus #9
God.
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What is the name of the school librarian that Jessica wants Mr.
Terupt to date?
Which grade are the kids in this year
What is the name of Anna's mom?
Who did Danielle give pictures of her farm to?
Ms. Newberry.
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5th
Terri Adams
James
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