1. The 5th Wave
By Rick Yancey

2. Overview 1. Plot Overview 2. Character Summary 3. Character Traits
4. Social Connections
5. Conclusion

3. Plot Overview Main characters Cassie Sullivan and Ben Parish.
World is being attacked by aliens in FIVE different waves.
Cassie’s MOM DIES, family goes to a CAMP.
Cassie’s DAD DIES gets separated from SAM.
Ben Parish almost DIES.
Ben Parish and Sam are in the SAME base camp.
Cassie meets EVAN WALKER. Evan HELPS Cassie get brother.
Ben and Ringer find information about army
Cassie, Sammy, and Ben escape, but where is Evan!?

4. Character Summary Name: Cassie Sullivan Role: Main Character
Family still alive: Sammy (brother)
Other: Sometimes called Cassiopeia
Name: Ben Parish
Role: Main character
Family still alive: None
Other: Called Zombie, went to high school with Cassie
Name: Sam Sullivan
Role: Secondary
Family still alive: Cassie (sister)
Other: Called Sammy, Sams, Nugget
Name: Evan Walker
Role: Secondary
Family still alive: None
Other: Lives on farm, hunter, love interest

5. Using Reading Comprehension
Cassiopeia
(“she who's words excel”)
Under a Blanket of Stars?
Cassie has a on/off relationship with stars.
Cassie - Cassiopeia
Are there other Earth like planets in our solar system?
That questions gets answered in the first chapter
“Not Cassie for Casandra. Or Cassie for Cassidy. Cassie for Cassiopeia, the constellation, the queen tied to her chair in the northern sky, who was beautiful but vain, placed in the heavens by the see God Poseidon as a punishment for her boasting.”
~Cassie (pg.3)

6. Character traits that represent Cassie!
PERSERVERENCE
When mom died staying STRONG for brother.
When dad died, doing EVERYTHING by herself.
Gave off ADITTUDE, to seem BIGGER and TOUGHER.
Made her a RESILIENT person.

7. Continuing character traits
Another Character Trait For Cassie
INDEPENDANT
Helped RAISE brother; dad was busy.
Traveled through woods BY HERSELF.
Wanted to travel on her OWN; after TRAINED HUNTER offered to come with her.
On her own, breaks into ARMY BASE to save brother.

8. Continuing Character traits
Diary
Backpack
Hand Gun
Teddy Bear
Sleeping Bag

9. Social connections How the book relates to the world. Technology.
How the book relates to current events
Humans developing, threating other species.

10. Continuing, Extending Understanding of texts
“Something takes over when you’re facing death. The front part of your brain lets go, gives up control, to the oldest part of you, the part that takes care of your heartbeat and breathing and the blinking of your eyes.”
~Cassie Sullivan

11. Continuing social connections
How the book relates to our history.
If aliens ever visited us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans”.
~Stephan Hawking
b. Land was taken, confided to reserves.

12. 9/10 Conclusion Very exciting, and action packed.
Different outlook on humans.
Young adults readers
9/10