CBTD Reading Map CH 1-5

Name: __________________________________________ Date: ______________________________________ Cheaper by the Dozen -‐ Reading Map Directions: Read each question first, before you read the chapter, and then read the chapter until you find the answers. Record your answers on a separate sheet of paper as you find them. Respond to each question in complete sentences and include the page number(s) where you got the answer. Example: Mary had a little lamb. #78 Chapter 1: Whistles and Shaving Bristles 1. Describe what Dad looks like. 2. What is at least one household rule, procedure, or chore that the children have to do? 3. Why are having rules and procedures necessary for this family? 4. Why does Dad button his vest “from the bottom up”? 5. What is Dad's signal for everyone to gather? 6. (2-‐part question) Make an inference: Why does Dad “choke up” at the end of the chapter? Make a second inference: What does this tell you about how he feels about his children? Chapter 2: Pierce Arrow 7. What trick does Dad play on the family on pages 8 and 9, and why does Dad play this trick on them? 8. What is one machine that Dad never really understands? 9. Describe Dad’s driving. 10. What does Dad “seldom” —or rarely—do? 11. What joke does Bill play on Dad? 12. How old is Bill, and what is he known for in the family? 13. Make an inference: What does Bill’s joke tell you about his personality? Chapter 3: Orphans in Uniforms 14. What are the authors trying to say about riding with Dad in Foolish Carriage through the use of these metaphors on page 13? “It was standing up in a roller coaster. It was going up on stage when the magician called for volunteers. It was a somersault off the high diving board.” 15. What is each older child responsible for? 16. What was Anne’s responsibility, and why was this her responsibility? 17. What is the purpose of Dad’s roll call? 18. What is the procedure for if a child gets lost? 19. On page 17, what is it that Dad likes “best of all”? 20. What do you think Dad means when he says, “[T]hey come cheaper by the dozen”? 21. What upsets Mother on pages 19 and 20? 22. At the end of the chapter, who do we find out is the real “boss” of the family? CHAPTER 4: Visiting Mrs. Murphy 23. What would Father do when he got lost? 24. Explain what “unavoidable delay” means based on the examples given to you on page 23. 25. What does Father do during an “Unavoidable Delay”? 26. On page 24, how do you know that Father loves Mother? 27. What are the phrases “visiting Mrs. Murphy” and “examining the rear tire” synonyms for? 28. How does Bill trick Dad at the end of this chapter? 29. At the end of the chapter, the authors say that, as they would “roll along” in Foolish Carriage with the family, they would think: “’What do only children do with themselves?’ What do the authors mean by this? 30. How is their attitude about being an only child different at the end of Chapter 4 than on page 17? 31. At the end of the chapter, why do you think Mother calls this time in the car the “’happiest time in the world’”? Chapter 5: Mister Chairman 32. Why does Father not enter MIT? (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 33. How does Father get started in the motion study business? 34. Why is the family council set up? 35. Who is “Mister Chairman”? 36. On pages 34-‐35, what do the children vote to purchase with the remaining five dollars that they save when Mother buys a cheaper rug?

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