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Alice was so surprised by Wonderland and its strange characters, that Lewis Carroll made up a phrase to show her surprise. This phrase became so popular that it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. It means something is getting more and more confounding. The Cheshire Cat is one of the curious characters Alice meets in Wonderland. He has a large grin. Parts of his body appear and disappear while Alice talks with him. Soon Alice can see just one part of the Cheshire Cat. Circle every other letter to find out what she saw. “Curiouser and Curiouser!”
In Alice in Wonderland , the Cheshire Cat tells Alice that everyone in Wonderland is mad. The Cat doesn’t mean that everyone is angry. In this Wonderland, mad means a little bit crazy. “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat. “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” Mad has more than one meaning. It can mean angry and it can mean a bit crazy. With a family member, look through the newspaper for five more words that have more than one meaning. These are called homonyms .
DISAPPEAR NONSENSE STRANGE CARROLL
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally.
Lewis Carroll is a pen name. A pen name is a name some people use instead of their real name when they write a book. What was Lewis Carroll’s real name? Unscramble each scrambled word below. The letters in the circles spell the answer to the question.
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L D E A L I C E I
L N V T W
O O I E I E R N A
R N L Y N H A E P
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A E T N E E U Q E
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RABBIT QUOTES LEWIS QUEEN ALICE WHITE
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NESNOSEN
GRIN TONE HOLE CAT
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NDELROWDAN
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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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