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 7
Active Reading: Chapter Notes for: Freak the Mighty by Rodman 9
Philbrick 9
Pre-reading Activity: 11

Chapter 1
Setting 12
Thought Question: 12
Grammar Activity: Nouns 13

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

Chapter 3
Thought Question: 15
Author Purpose 16

Chapter 4
Inference 17
A Guest for Dinner 17
Picture a Character 18
Compare and Contrast 19

Chapter 5
Thought Question: 20
Grammar Activity: 20
Context clues: 21

Chapter 6
Thought Question 22
Paragraph Writing: Character Analysis 22
Create Your Own Vocabulary List 23

Chapter 7
Thought Question 24
Plagiarism 24

Chapter 8
Thought Question 25
Now, You be the Teacher! 25
Foreshadowing and Prediction 26

Chapter 9
Thought Question 26
Grammar Activity: 27
Chapter Summary and Illustration 27
Narrative and Dialogue: 28

Chapter 10
Character: Friend or Foe? 29

Chapter 11
Thought Question 30

Chapter 12
Thought Activity 30

Chapter 13
Thought Question 31

Chapter 14
Thought Question 31

Chapter 15
Thought Question 31
An Interview with a Character: 32

Chapter 16
Thought Question 33
Personal Pronouns 33

Chapter 17
Thought Question 34
Grammar Activity: Prepositional Phrases 35

Chapter 18
Thought Question 36

Chapter 19
Thought Question 36

Chapters 20 and 21
Thought Activity 37
Activity for Thought: Similarities and Differences 37
Party for a Character 38

Chapter 22
Grammar Activity: Parts of Speech 39
Internal and External Conflict 40
Main Idea 41
Creating a Driver�s License 42

Chapter 23
Thought Question 43

Chapter 24
Grammar Activity: Nouns 43
Creative Activity: Create your own seek-a-word puzzle 44
Chronological order 45
Climax and Rising and Falling Action 46
Book Events 47
Newspaper Page 48
A New Cover 49

Matching quiz on Literary Terms and Elements 50
Answers to Matching quiz on Literary Terms and Elements 51

Final Essay Test for Freak the Mighty 52
Rubric for Final Essay Test 54

Attention Teachers! 55
Quiz Creating Activity 56
Test Creating Activity: 57
Answers 59



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