Bridge To Terabithia Literature Circle

Bridge to Terabithia By: Katherine Paterson

Jesse Aarons is a loner and doesn’t have a good relationship with his own father. One thing Jesse is good at is running. He has been training all summer to be the fastest kid in fifth grade. Things are about to change when a new girl to the school, Leslie Burke, beats him and the other boys…

Daily Reading

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapters 12-13

Daily Assignments

1. Read the assigned pages above each day. 2. Do your literature circle job completely, accurately, and neatly on loose leaf or plain paper. 3. Work on your word study for the week. You must do 10 words per week. 4. Have DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) time if finish early. 5. Work on an extra credit project if you would like

© 2010 Wise Guys Literature Circle Jobs Directions: The following is a list of “jobs” that you will have for your literature circle stories. Please understand that you are expected to hand-in high quality work. Incomplete and sloppy work will be returned.

Artful Artist (AA) Your job is to draw anything about the assigned reading that you liked: a character, the setting, a problem, an exciting part, a surprise, a prediction of what will happen next, or anything else you might think about. Do any kind of drawing or picture you like.

AA Task Requirements: Include a colorful picture that takes up at least a half-page and contains at least 3-5 meaningful sentences that describe what your picture is all about. But Shhhh, it’s a secret! When your group meets, try your best not to tell what your drawing is (see if you can fool ‘em). Let them guess and talk about it first. Then you can tell about what part of the assigned pages you drew a picture about.

Character Captain (ChCa) Your job is to MEET and UNDERSTAND the characters in the story. Write about their feelings.  What are their thoughts?  How do you think they should be acting?  Are they like you or people that you know?  Why is the character important to the story?  How have they changed throughout the story?  If you could change one thing about this character, what would it be and why would you change this?

CC Task Requirements: Your character summary should be about a half-page. Please be descriptive in your writing.

Discussion Director (DD) Congratulations, you have just been asked to be the leader of your group! Your job will be to write down three discussion questions that you think your group would want to discuss. Your questions should not be found in the © 2010 Wise Guys book. For example: “What is the name of the main character?” With a question like this, there is no discussion. An excellent example of a discussion question might sound like this: “Why do you think the main character went to her friend’s house?”

DD Task Requirements: What you turn in must have three questions and contain at least two responses on how your group responded to each one.

Clever Connector (CC) Your job is to find connections between the book and something else. The three main types of connections are: 1. Text-to-Text Connections: Sometimes a story will make you think of another book that you have read or heard about. 2. Text-to-Self Connections: Sometimes a story will remind you about something that happened in your own life such as a birthday party, a vacation, a pet, a school event, etc. Sometimes, the text-to-self connection is about an event that happened in someone else’s life such as an aunt, a friend, your pet, etc. 3. Text-to-World Connections: Sometimes a story will make you think about something that is happening or has happened in the world. Maybe the book that you are reading is taking about a class election. That may remind you that your parents have talked about the upcoming Presidential election.

CC Task Requirements: Your connection should contain at least 5 meaningful sentences, and contain references from the book to the connection.

Passage Picker (PP) Your job is to pick two parts of the story that you want to read aloud to your group. You may want to find passages that show: . particular feelings . new insight to the story . answer questions you may have had about the story

PP Task Requirements: Be sure to mark the two parts you want to share with Post-it notes or bookmarks. You will also need to write down on a separate piece of paper at least three sentences explaining why you chose each passage.. Also include the pages that these were found on.

Word Wizard (WW) Your job is to find words that you: don’t know, are hard to pronounce, are funny, and/or interesting.

© 2010 Wise Guys WW Task Requirements: You will need to find at least 5 words in your assigned reading. For each word you will need to: write it on loose leaf, underline the word, write the correct definition of the word as it is used in the book, and write down the page number where you found the word. Then when you meet in groups, it is your job to share your words with the class.

Bridge to Terabithia Daily Jobs

Members Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 10 11 12 1. DD AA PP WW ChCa CC DD AA PP 2. AA PP WW ChCa CC DD AA PP WW 3. PP WW ChCa CC DD AA PP WW CC 4. WW ChCa CC DD AA PP WW CC ChCa 5. ChCa CC DD AA PP WW CC ChCa DD 6. CC DD AA PP WW CC ChCa DD AA DD= Discussion Director AA= Artful Artist PP = Passage Picker ChCa= Character Captain CC= Connector WW = Word Wizard

Reading Strategy Focus: Word Study In order to better comprehend what they are reading, good readers will try to find the meanings of the key vocabulary in the story. Sometimes they may ask someone what a word means or use context clues to figure out the meaning. Good readers will also look up the definition.

Your Job: Your job will be to either use the vocabulary words below in a sentence or find the meanings of the words. Some vocabulary words may have several meanings, so make sure that your definition fits the way you think it would be used in the story. Please skip lines between each definition. This work must be done neatly or you will do it over. If there are more than 2- 3 words per day, your teacher may have you work with a partner, discuss them in a group, or provide the meanings for you.

Day 1 Reading Day 5 Reading Day 9 Reading Chapter 1 Chapter 5 Chapter 9 Despised p. 2 Vigorously p. 50 Earnest p. 86 Grit p. 3 Solemnly p. 50 Vanquished p. 90 Heat p. 4 Retreating p. 54 Discern p. 91 Worshipped p. 5 Crimson p. 55 Horrid p. 93 Puny p. 5

Day 2 Reading Day 6 Reading Day 10 Reading Chapter 2 Chapter 6 Chapter 10 Scalding p. 6 Obsessed p. 57 Intently p. 95 Muddled p. 10 Speculation p. 57 Scrawny p. 95 Anticipation p. 13 Foundling p. 58 Anxiety p. 95 Pandemonium p. 15 Gully p. 60 Flank p. 96 Jester p. 62 Suppress p. 98

Day 3 Reading Day 7 Reading Day 11 Reading

Day 4 Reading Day 8 Reading Day 12 Reading Chapter 4 Chapter 8 Chapter 12 Consolation p. 29 Complacent p. 79 Cremated p. 114 Melodic p. 30 Spectacle p. 80 Retrieved p. 115 Reassess p. 32 Decent p. 82 Falter p. 34 Unison p. 83 Chapter 13 Ominously p. 35 Piteously p. 119 Regally p. 40 Procession p. 120 Foes p. 40 Assuring p. 121 Siege p. 40 Leaden p. 124 Traitorous p. 124

Bridge to Terabithia End of Novel Project Choices

The following choices will be due at the end of the novel. I will give you some time in class to complete this, but you may have to do some at home.

Building a Bridge What did the bridge symbolize at the end of the book? Create a bridge and write down the main components of the story that lead up to the building of the bridge. Then make sure you fully explain your thinking about what the bridge means to Jess. Friendships Friendship is a very important theme in this story. Write about the relationship of Jess and Leslie, Jess and his family, and Leslie and her family. What kind of relationship do you have with your family? Provide reasons why. Wanted Poster Design a wanted poster for Janice Avery. Make sure to include: the $ wanted for her capture, a picture of her with a description below, and other items that would be important to know in order to capture her. Also include 5 main events of the story on the back of the poster.

Diorama

© 2010 Wise Guys Create a diorama of the magical world of Terabithia. Write down 5 main events on the back. Then include in writing why Terabithia was important to Jess, Leslie, and May Belle in the end.

Sequel Write a sequel to this novel. What will happen to Jess? Will there still be a “Terabithia”in his life? What relationship will he have with his family? What events will happen in his life? Chapter Titles There are thirteen chapters in this novel. Create your own chapter titles that would fit each chapter and then write at least two sentences explaining your new titles.

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