Booktalk
Tell something children will remember |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCING VOCABULARY
admonition | reverie | tranquil |
circumstances | friends | independence |
decipher | hysteria | preference |
traumatized | sustenance | curiosity |
energetic | indulgent | exhausted |
criticize | imagination | significant |
vampire | fascinating | aghast |
inexplicable | vegetables | immobile |
determination | pathetic | behavior |
exemplary | devious | distressed |
commotion | imminent | petrified |
bewildered | starvation | fraught |
ANTICIPATION GUIDES
AGREE | DISAGREE | |
______ | ______ | 1. Anyone forced to live with wicked relatives should run away. |
______ | ______ | 2. Doing all the work around the house can be rewarding. |
______ | ______ | 3. If there were magic crystals to make everyone happy there would be no more wars. |
______ | ______ | 4. A dormant tree can never produce fruit. |
______ | ______ | 5. Fear of the dark is an unnreasonable fear. |
______ | ______ | 6. Finding a light at the end of a tunnel means that a problem has been solved. |
______ | ______ | 7. Losing something valuable is not always a bad thing. |
______ | ______ | 8. Earthworms are very useful creatures. |
______ | ______ | 9. It is possible for a peach to grow the size of a house. |
______ | ______ | 10. The air can be filled with many flying objects other than birds. |
______ | ______ | 11. Discovering how an insect grows can be fascinating. |
______ | ______ | 12. A peach could roll down the street only in a fantasy tale. |
HIGHER ORDER QUESTIONS
Directions: Discuss these questions in a small group. As a
group come up with one answer for each of the ten questions.
CHAPTER PROJECTS
Chapters One - Four:
James Henry Trotter's
parents were killed in a freak accident in London while shopping. So, James was
sent to live with his Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge. They didn't seem to like
little children at all.One day James met an old man. He held in his hands a bag,
a bag full of glowing stones. The old man told James that the magic inside the
bag would free him from his life with his horrible aunts. He warned James not to
drop the bag for the magic would go to someone or something else.
ACTIVITY:
First Name: | James Henry Trotter |
Four Traits: | Sweet, sensitive, hard-working, lonely |
Related to: | Aunt Spiker and Sponge |
Cares deeply about: | his life and his mom and dad |
Who feels: | sad |
Who needs: | love and nurturing |
Who gives: | 100% of himself |
Who fears: | his aunts |
Who would like to see: | his mom and dad again |
Resident of: | England |
Give an example |
First Name: | ______________________________________________ |
Four Traits: | ______________________________________________ |
Related to: | ______________________________________________ |
Cares deeply about: | ______________________________________________ |
Who feels: | ______________________________________________ |
Who needs: | ______________________________________________ |
Who gives: | ______________________________________________ |
Who fears: | ______________________________________________ |
Who would like to see: | ______________________________________________ |
Resident of: | ______________________________________________ |
Provide an outline or pattern for the student to work with |
CHAPTER PROJECTS
Chapters Five - Nine:
James dropped the bag of
glowing stones while running back toward the house. They sank into the ground
surrounding the old peach tree. One peach at the top of the tree started to grow
and grow. It grew until it was as big as a house. Aunt Spiker and Sponge sold
tickets to see it. One night James went outside and was standing near the peach
when he noticed what looked like a door on the side of the peach.
ACTIVITY
Here are poems by two women who reveal their love of
nature in their writing. Try using one of the poems patternS for writing poems
about the peach.
Example
Who has seen the wind,
Neither you nor I
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
Christina Rosetti
Give examples |
Provide an outline for the student to work with. |
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ACTIVITY:
Example |
OUTLINE FOR STUDENT USE |
CHAPTER PROJECTS
ACTIVITY
:DESTINATION UNKNOWN
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CHAPTER PROJECTS
ACTIVITY: It's All in a Word
CHAPTER PROJECTS
A REWRITE CHALLENGE!
CHAPTER PROJECTS
A LITERARY BOOK REVIEW
Alliteration: | Repeating beginning sounds (Example:tangled with terrible trouble) |
Metaphor: | Comparing without the use of like or as (Example: The hailstones were bullets aimed at the travelers.) |
Personification: | Giving life to nonliving objects (Example:Fingers of wind plucked the clothes). |
Repetition: | Repeating phrases for emphasis. (Example: The rainbow dropped lower and lower and lower out of the sky.) |
Simile: | Comparing using like or as. (Example: The peach was as big as a mountain) |
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY