The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanChapter 7 and 8

“ My Dinner Goes Up in Smoke”“We capture a Flag”

Presentation by Kathrina piper and Andrew KaneBlock A3

Plot The Sequence of Events

• Percy gets to the haft-blood camp and meets Annabeth and Luke his counselor.

• Percy learns that Annabeth was related to Athena

• And tries to learn who his father is in part of the dinner sacrifice to the gods

Plot continued

• Percy was only good at canoeing and sword fighting• There was a fighting in the woods with teams of

Zeus and Poseidon • Percy was not good at any sports he tried them all

out and sucked at all of them except sword fighting and canoeing

• The trainer for sword fighting taught him a new trick know one could ever do and he did that trick to the trainer and he was amazed

Conflict a struggle between opposing forces

• internal in chapter 7 – Percy feels like he doesn’t belong at camp haft-blood

• Internal in chapter 8• -Percy does not fit in any sport and is left out• External in chapter 7 – Clarisse and Percy both hate each other

• External in chapter 8• -Percy is the best on the sword fighting team and

loves it

Settings when and were a story takes place

• Chapter 7 takes place at camp half-blood in a dining hall

• Chapter 8 takes place at the half-blood and in a field where they start trying to capture the flag

Charters the people in the story

• Protagonist(s) charters who work for the good of the story– Percy Jackson -Luke– Annabeth - Zeus– Poseidon -Grover– Chiron

– Antagonist charters who work against protagonists– Clarisse– Hades

Mythological Allusion

• Athena is a goddess of wisdom and war.• Athena is Annabeth mother, and annabeth has

only seen her once when her and a few of her friends went to Olympus

Mythological Allusions Continued

• Zeus was the god of thunderstorms Poseidon was the god of the sea and all sea creatures

• Zeus was one of the teams for capture the flag and Poseidon was the other

Mythological Allusions Continued

• Ares was the god of war • In chapter 8 Ares has kids that are strong and

in chapter 7 he is mentioned my Luke

Review Questions

• What camp does Percy go to ?• What game do the campers play?• Who Percy's counselor ?• What is Percy good at?• What type of camp does Percy go to?