Cinder is a sixteen year old cyborg living in New Beijing, the futuristic city in the Eastern Commonwealth, with her stepsisters and her horrible stepmother. A highly skilled mechanic, Cinder has a booth in the marketplace, and is visited by Prince Kai, who asks her to fix his android. An outbreak of the deadly disease letumosis spreads quickly through the marketplace and everything begins to unravel. Cinder’s world is about to change as she tries to save her stepsister’s life and, ultimately, the whole planet.
Define and illustrate new vocabulary from Cinder by Marissa Meyer with this activity!
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LUNAR
QUARANTINE
CYBORG
In this story, a Lunar is a genetically mutated human lives on the moon and can manipulate humans on Earth to do whatever they want. Evil Queen Levana rules the Lunars.
(n.) A state of isolation in which one is placed if they have been exposed to an infectious or contagious disease. In the story, those who contracted letumosis were placed in quarantine.
(n.) A fictional person whose physical abilities are beyond normal human functions due to the fact that they have mechanical elements built into the body. Cinder is a cyborg.