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
Active Reading Chapter Notes 7
Pre-reading Activity 9

Chapter 1
Setting 10

Chapter 2
Mr. Ages Thought Question 10
Literary Elements: Antagonist and Protagonist 11
Chapter Summary and Illustration 11

Chapters 3 and 4
Grammar Activity: Nouns 12
Mood 13
Summary 13

Chapter 5 Five Days
Grammar Activity: Adjectives 14
Thought Question: 14
Context clues: 15

Chapter 6
Create Your Own Vocabulary List 16

Chapter 7 The Owl
Spelling and Vocabulary Activity 17
Important Details: 18
Plagiarism 18

Chapter 8 Go to the Rats
Thought Question: 19

Chapter 9 In the Rosebush
Grammar Activity: Verbs 19
Now, You be the Teacher! 20
Foreshadowing and Prediction 20

Chapter 10 Brutus
Grammar Activity: Personal Pronouns 21
Author Purpose 21
Narrative and Dialogue: 22

Chapter 11 In the Library
Activity for Thought: Similarities and Differences 23

Chapter 12 Isabella
Spelling and Vocabulary Activity 24
Thought Question: 25

Chapter 13 A Powder for Dragon
SYNOPSIS OR SUMMARY? 25

Chapter 14 The Marketplace
Picture a Character 26

Chapter 15 In the Cage
Spelling and Vocabulary Activity 27
Thought Question: 28

Chapter 16 In the Maze
New Character 28

Chapter 17 A Lesson in Reading
Spelling and Vocabulary Activity 29
Thought Question: 30

Chapter 19 The Boniface Estate
Cast of Characters 30

Chapter 20 The Main Hall
Grammar Activity: Prepositional Phrases 31

Chapters 21 - 21 The Toy Tinker and Thorn Valley
Thought Question: 32

Chapter 23 Captured
Thought Activity: 32
Internal and External Conflict 33
Recommendations 34

Chapter 24 Seven Dead Rats
GRAMMAR ACTIVITY: SUBJECTS AND PREDICATES 35

Chapters 25: Escape and 26: At the Meeting

Post Reading Activities 36
Creative Activity 36
Chronological order 37
Climax and Rising and Falling Action 38
Author Study : Robert C. O'Brien 39

MATCHING QUIZ ON LITERARY TERMS AND ELEMENTS OF A STORY 40
Answers to Matching Quiz on Literary Terms and Elements of a Story 41

Final Essay Test for 42
Rubric for Final Essay Test 44

Attention Teachers! 45
Quiz Creating Activity: 46
Test Creating Activity: 47
Answers to Grammar Activities 49


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