Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment Part 1 Summary

Part 1: "Flock Fright" Summary 

 

Pages 1- 35

 

Summary:

 

Meet the Flock: Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. A group of genetically engineered human-avians living on their own. They were created in a lab called “the School,” but escaped when one of the scientists, Jab Batchelder, helped them run away. With Jeb gone (and presumed dead), Max leads the Flock. When the Flock goes out one day to pick strawberries, they are attacked by Erasers, half man-half wolf hybrids, who kidnap Angel. Despite the Flock’s best efforts, Angel is taken by the Erasers back to the school. Max and the Flock are determined to rescue her and so begin planning their rescue mission.

Characters:

Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, Angel, Jeb Batchelder, Ari

Important Passages:

Prologue (pg. 1-2): introduces the story to the reader
Chapter 3 (pg. 10-12): introduces the members of the Flock 
Chapter 4—Chapter 7 (pg. 13-23): introduces the Erasers and Ari into the story and sets up one of the major conflicts found in the book
Chapter 9—Chapter 11 (pg. 27-35): after losing Angel, Max decides to go to the School and rescue her with Nudge and Fang while instructing Izzy and Gazzy to stay home
 

Recommended Literacy Strategies:

Sequential Timeline - timeline of plot events to help readers keep track of what is happening (recommended for the whole book)
Question Log - chart with columns for the page number that brought up the question, the question, and the answer to the question (recommended for the whole book)
Prediction Log - chart with columns for the prediction, textual evidence to support the prediction (the "why"), and whether or not the prediction was correct (recommended for the whole book)
Anticipation Guide - worksheet with three sections: a brief summary of the three most important parts of in the plot (according to the reader), a character list with as much information about the character the reader can think of, and a list of three predictions for the upcoming reading that they can support with evidence to be revisited after reading the next section (recommended for the end of Part 1)
Story Wheel - circular chart split into multiple spokes/sections (recommended for listing the Flock members and their characteristics)
Visualization - drawing or doodle based off of a section of reading (recommended to use with descriptions of the Flock and the Erasers)

Discussion Topics:

-What would you do if you were Max?
-How would you feel not being completely human?
-Was Max right to make Iggy stay behind?

Questions:

-What was do to the Flock at the School?
-What happened to Jeb?
-How did Ari become an Eraser?
-What other special abilities does the Flock have?