This 50-page Kids' Wings unit and Jeopardy-type game for The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, a terrific Newbery Honor book by Rodman Philbrick, will enrich and extend your reading of this exciting, surprisingly hysterical historical adventure set in the Civil War.  

The Activity Guide Contains: 

• Pre-Reading Discussion Cards
• Anticipation Guide
• 2 -Page Readers’ Theater Introduction
• Preparing Your Intellectual Tools: Dialectical Journals
• Becoming a Character
• Vocabulary by Chapters 
• Making Connections: Before Reading Quick Writes and Predict/Read/Confirm Chapter Questions
• Nonstandard and Standard English
• Quartet Reading and 15-Second Summaries
• Civil War Map
• The Lies of Homer P. Figg
• Character Studies
• The Ballad of Homer P. Figg to the tune of "The Battle Cry of Freedom"
• Crossword Puzzle: The Story Begins
• Activities for Visualizing the Chapters through Drawing
• Multiple Choice Comprehension Activities
• Activities for Visualizing the Chapters
• Research Prompts and Guides
• Where in the World? Map Study
• Recalling and Analyzing the Chapters, Discuss and Write
• Analyzing the Events, Discussion and Writing
• Summarizing the Story PUZZLE
• Topics for Extended Research
• Comparing Books
• A Tense Situation
• Writing Prompts
• Answer Keys 
• Plus, an interactive Jeopardy-type game!

Note:  It will motivate your students to beg for more historical fiction like Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen.