Description
Teaching Guide designed to develop an appreciation for literature and to make stronger reading skills, exploring critique and literature elements.
The challenging level specializes in a number of reading strategies to lend a hand students construct a meaningful literature experience in addition to develop important thinking and academic skills.
Table of Contents
Notes to the Teacher
About the Organization of This Literature Guide
o Journal and Discussion Topics
o Chapter Vocabulary
o Chapter Summary
o The Groupings of Literature
Other Features of the Challenging Level
o Strategy Pages
o Testing
o Creator s Forum
Introducing the Literature
o Sample Lesson Plan
Tolkien and Species
Bibliography
Strategy 1: Beginning a Book
Chapter 1: An Unexpected Party
Strategy 2: Plot The Design of a StoryChapter 3-4
Chapter 2: Roast Mutton
Strategy 3: Setting and Mood
Strategy 4: Characterization
Chapter 3: A Short Rest
Creator s Forum: Compare and Contrast
Strategy 5: Rhetoric
Strategy 6: Maps
Strategy 7: Runes
Chapter 4: Over Hill and Under Hill
Strategy 8: Point of View
Strategy 9: Fantasy
Test: Chapters 1-4
Chapters 5: Riddles within the Dark
Strategy 10: Plot Conflict
Chapter 6: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire
Strategy 11: Foreshadowing and Flashback
Chapter 7: Queer Lodgings
Strategy 12: Setting and Mood
Creator s Forum: Diary Entry
Chapter 8: Flies and Spiders
Strategy 13: Character
Chapter 9: Barrels Out of Bond
Strategy 14: Irony
Creator s Forum: News Article
Test: Chapters 5-9
Chapter 10: A Warm Welcome
Chapter 11: At the Doorstep
Chapter 12: Inside Information
Strategy 15: Reference, Allusion, and Parody
Chapter 13: Not a Home
Creator s Forum: A Scene from a Play
Chapter 14: Fire and Water
Test: Chapters 1-14
Chapter 15: The Gathering of the Clouds
Chapter 16: A Thief within the Night
Strategy 16: Theme
Creator s Forum: A Imaginable Ending
Chapter 17: The Clouds Burst
Chapter 18: The Return Journey
Strategy 17: The Hero s Journey
Chapter 19: The Last Stage
Creator s Forum: Poetry
Creator s Forum: Compare and Contrast a Book and a Movie
Test: Chapters 15-19
Answer Pages
Chapter Pages
Strategy Pages
Creator s Forum Pages
Tests