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.