Tall Tales

Lara Seagle, Louise Urban,
Kristy Familiar, and Jessica Coulter

TALL TALES – The Case of the
Growing Suspicions

DISCUSSION DIRECTOR

1.  Jo Madison calls the Super Crew because she has a problem. What is the problem that she has and why does she call the Super Crew?
 

Jo calls the Super Crew (pg. 3) because she had spent a year's allowance on Dr. Sweet’s Tall-riffic Growth Potion.  This potion was supposed to make her grow taller; however, Jo’s problem is that she had not grown at all after taking the potion.  She calls the Super Crew in hopes that they can solve the case because she is very upset that her allowance was spent on a tonic that “did not do a thing” (pg. 9).
 

2.  Ross Grrow is __________________.

      a. the inventor and spokesperson for Dr. Sweet’s Tall-riffic Growth Potion
      b. the leader of the Super Crew who drives the train that they travel in
      c. another child who has bought the growth potion and has filed a complaint because they did not grow
      d. Jo’s basketball coach who wants her to grow taller for the team
Ross Grrow is (a) the inventor and spokesperson for Dr. Sweet’s Tall-riffic Growth Potion (page 28-29).
3.  What do you think the main idea of this section is?
The main idea of this section is to be happy with who you are.  One should not think that they need to buy tonics that will change the person that they are.  The growth potion might help people grow.  However, it can also be extremely harmful (page 17).  The main idea seems to encourage people to be happy with who they are.

 

4.  Which of the following best describes Megan?

                    Willing to help those in need.
                    Creative
                    Intelligent
                    Leader of the Super Crew
While Megan is both creative and intelligent, perhaps the phrase that best describes her is (a) being willing to help those in need.  While she wanted to continue working with her tabloid project for biology, she put it away so that she and the crew could be working right away on their new case (page 4).

 

5.  Curtis seems to always be inventing something new (p. 5).  If you were to invent something what would it be?  What would you name it and what would the purpose of your invention be?

If I were to invent something new it would be a devise that would keep your shoelaces tied all of the time without having to put the laces into a double knot.  I would name my new invention the Quick Tie.
 

6.  At the end of this section, the Super Crew is heading to Hawaii. Why are they going to go to Hawaii?

The Super Crew is heading to Hawaii in order to find Ross Grrow.  They know that he is in Hawaii because Megan saw an episode of “Lifestyles of the Filthy Rich” in which she heard that he would be visiting a Hawaiian island (page 30). They are going to go to Hawaii in order to find him so that they can get to the bottom of the growth potion case.
 
 

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