Across Five Aprils Complete Literature and Grammar Unit

Our novel units are aligned to many of the Common Core Standards, including inference, main idea, elements of a story, and more!

This is a combined literature and grammar unit that contains everything you need to teach the novel and more! Included in the unit are pre-reading, active-reading and post-reading activities with grammar lessons, literary activities, a literary terms and elements matching quiz, a final essay test with grading rubric, and other activities just for fun!

Table of Contents

Student Hand-out on Literary Terms and Elements of a Story 5
Pre-reading Activity: 7
Active Reading Chapter Notes for: Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt 10

Chapter 1
Setting 12
Activity for Thought: A Great Beginning 12
Title Analysis 13
Comprehension Question 13

Chapter 2
Grammar Activity: 14
Literary Elements: Antagonist and Protagonist 15
Synopsis or Summary? 15

Chapter 3
Thought Questions 16
Grammar Activity: Singular and Plural Nouns 16
Literary Element: Mood 17
Summary 17

Chapter 4
Thought Question 18

Chapter 5
Thought Questions: 18
Grammar Activity: Adjectives 19
Compare and Contrast 20

Chapter 6
Chapter Summary and Illustration 21
Context clues: 22

Chapter 7
Picture This 23
Create Your Own Vocabulary List 24

Chapter 8
Grammar Activity: 25
Character Interview 26
Plagiarism 27
Important Details: 28

Chapter 9
Comprehension Question 28
Thought Question: 28
Grammar Activity: Personal Pronouns 29
Grammar Activity - Adjectives 29

Chapter 10
Character Thoughts 30
Grammar Activity: Prepositional Phrases: 31
Now, You be the Teacher! 32
Foreshadowing and Prediction 32
Internal and External Conflict 33
Main Idea 34

Chapter 11
Narrative and Dialogue: 35

Chapter 12
Chapter Summary and Illustration 36
Newspaper Page 37
Letter to the Author: 38
Author Interview 38
Creative Activity: 39
Chronological order 40
Climax and Rising and Falling Action 41

Matching Quiz on Literary Terms and Elements of a Story 42
Answers to Matching Quiz on Literary Terms and Elements of a Story 43

Final Essay Test for 44
Rubric for Final Essay Test 46

Attention Teachers! 47
Quiz Creating Activity 48
Test Creating Activity 49
Answers: 51


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