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Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson planning journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This novel study includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of lessons. Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns it to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.

TEXT: TUCK EVERLASTING by Natalie Babbitt
LEVEL: 4th-8th
TOTAL: 230+ slides/pages
Pacing Guide and Answer Keys included

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LITERATURE PLAN CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards
→ Easy to differentiate for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped

★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity
– answer thematic questions to get students thinking about the novel
– 12-page/slide engaging activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Plot Chart Organizer Diagram Arc
– Organize the 6 parts of the plot
– 2-page organizer
– Suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Conflict Graphic Organizer – 6 Types of Conflict
– Students analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 2-page organizer
– Suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Characters Organizer
– Analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 5-page organizer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3

★ Figurative Language Instructional PowerPoint
– We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 70+ slide PowerPoint will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of learners.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Figurative Language Activity
– analyze and complete 47 figures of speech specific to the novel
– 10-page bundle (3 parts)
– Similes vs. Metaphors
– Figurative Language Analysis
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Symbols
– Students analyze the 6 different symbols in the story
– 8-page organizer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Selfie Video Update Activity
– Students record a video selfie update of what’s been happening in the forest and at Treegap and how they’re feeling about it all.
– 1-page instructions
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1 & 3

★ Grammar Bundle Pronouns: Subjective Objective Possessive
– Using examples from the novel, students will study pronouns and the times when they are Subjective, Objective, and Possessive. They will learn to locate them in sentences and learn their functions.
– 1-page activity practicing pronouns
– 1-page activity practicing subjective pronouns
– 1-page activity practicing objective pronouns
– 1-page activity practicing possessive pronouns
– suggested answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1

★ Grammar Pronouns Intensive Reflexive
– Using examples from the novel, students will study pronouns and the times when they are Intensive and Reflexive. They will learn to locate them in sentences and learn their functions. Then they’ll create their own sentences using each type.
– 2-page activity practicing intensive and reflexive pronouns
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1

★ Grammar Pronouns & Antecedents
– Using examples from the novel, students will study pronouns and their antecedents. They will learn to locate both of them in sentences and be able to analyze whether or not the antecedents are clear or unclear.
– 2-page activity practicing pronouns and antecedents
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1

★ Journal – Quickwrite Writing Prompts – PowerPoint
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 30-slide engaging PowerPoint
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1

★ 12 Comprehension Pop Quizzes
– a 5-question pop quiz per chapter
* 27-slides of PowerPoint Quizzes
* 24-pages of Printable Quizzes
– The purpose of these is so students who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and students who didn’t read recently would not do well.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.10

★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment
– 80 vocabulary words from the novel
– four 20-question lists & quizzes
– 12-page bundle includes list of words, quiz, and answer keys
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4

★ Epilogue Message Activity
– Students will pretend they are one of the Tucks who has just visited Treegap in the year 2400 A.D. They will then write a letter or record a video message letting Winnie know what the place is like.
– 1-page instructions
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,3

★ Wanted Poster Activity
– Students will choose one of 4 artistic activities: Wanted Poster for Mae Tuck, Wanted Poster for the Man in the Yellow Suit, Missing Poster for Winnie Foster, or Wanted Poster for Info about the Fountain
– 6-page bundle
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,3

★ Poetry Analysis
– Students will read and study the poem Winnie quotes from: “To Althea, From Prison.”
– 2-pages of the public domain original poem and analysis questions about its deeper meaning for the poem and the novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Essay and Speech
– 3 response to literature essay options for students to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 6-page bundle
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,3

★ Movie vs. Novel Comparison
– 2-page organizer
– Students compare & contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Enjoy! And remember, “Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an un-lived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”

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