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Bridge to Terabithia

By Katherine Patterson

UNIT PLAN

Standards Addressed: Reading Literature

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

Craft and Structure:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5

Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

Chapter 2

Here we learn of Jess's second passion—drawing—and we find out a little more about his school. Jess has a crush on his unconventional music teacher Miss Edmunds, who is the only person who recognizes and appreciates his talent for art. Jess's father in particular thinks his drawing habit is girly and a waste of time. We also see the different ways Jess's father interacts with his children: he is affectionate with his younger girls but dismissive of Jess. And finally, at the close of the chapter Jess meets his new neighbor, Leslie Burke, for the first time. Leslie seems a little odd, and it takes a while for Jess to decide if she is a boy or a girl, but once he figures out she's a girl he is dismissive of her.

1. Jesse feels that he isn't appreciated at home. Why does he feel this way? Give specific examples from the text.

2. What is Jesse's favorite subject for drawing? What is his favorite theme?

3. How does Jesse quiet Joyce Anne when she is crying?

4. Jesse would like to show his artwork to his dad but doesn't. Why not?

Journal Entry: (Visualizing) Choose a scene from the reading that you can clearly visualize. Describe it in your own words.

Chapter Summaries and Questions

Standards Addressed: Writing

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.B

Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.C

Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.D

Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.

Amberley Green

Hannah Capaci

Kenny Ellenburg

Victoria Canterberry

Chapter 3

In this chapter we first see Jess and Leslie in their school, a place Jess finds as irritating as his home environment. Leslie is immediately alienated due to her casual mode of dressing for the first day of school. During recess Jess prepares for the big race he has been practicing for all summer, but everyone is shocked when Leslie decides to run with the boys and eventually beats all of them. Leslie shows her friendly nature, trying to connect with Jess, but he shrugs her off and tries to pretend he doesn't care she beat him and doesn't admire her skill at running.

1. How does Jesse show sensitivity to Leslie on her first day of school?

2. How does the author let you know that Jesse's family is poor?

3. After losing the heat to Leslie, how does Jesse get even with Gary Fulcher?

4. Why does Jesse choose to sit with May Belle on the bus, which is something he does not often do?

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In this opening chapter we meet Jess Aarons, the novel's viewpoint character, and his struggling family. Jess is the only boy in a family of four sisters, each of whom has their own special way of annoying Jess. The family is loud and stressed, and each is wrapped up in his or her own problems. As a refuge, Jess has a habit of taking early morning runs in preparation for the schoolyard races he competes in. His passion for running is clear, as is his desire for his family and especially his father to be proud of him. Near the end of the chapter Jess's sister May Belle tells him that a new family is moving in next door—a fact Jess ignores but that is the catalyst for the rest of the novel.

Chapter 1 Questions

1. Why does Jesse feel that he has to be "the fastest kid in the fifth grade"? How does he prepare for this goal?

2. Why does Jesse tolerate May Belle as much as he does?

3. How did foot racing become the boys' main recess activity?

4. Give your first impressions of each member of the Aarons family.

Chapter 4

The first week of school drags by for Jess, especially since Leslie continues to beat him and all the other boys at their recess races. He avoids Leslie, until a good mood brought on by a class with Miss Edmunds prompts him to reach out to her. They talk on the bus, and Jess learns that Leslie's parents are writers and rich. Leslie is continually alienated at school and bothered by the school bully Janice Avery, but she and Jess become closer and find refuge in a forest they find by swinging over a creek. They name this forest place Terabithia, and it becomes a place where they can escape from their troubles at school and home.

1. Although he wouldn't be the number one runner in the fourth and fifth grades, Jesse is able to console himself. Explain.

2. Explain what is meant by the following excerpt: "He felt there in the teachers' room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so."

3. What reason does Leslie give for moving to Jesse's part of the state? How would you feel if you were Leslie?

4. Why does Jesse choose to write about football rather than drawing? How would you have handled the assignment if you were Jesse?

Journal Entry: (Summarizing) Make a list of the 5 most important things that have happened in the reading so far.

Chapter 5

Janice the bully steals little May Belle's Twinkies, and May Belle begs Jess to do something about it. But Jess and Leslie know that fighting with Janice will only get Jess kicked out of school, so in Terabithia they form a different plan. They write a love letter to Janice, pretending it is from the boy all the seventh graders (including Janice) have a crush on, and arrange for Janice to meet this boy one day after school. Janice falls for their trick and is forced to walk home, much to May Belle's delight.

1. Who was the "real" giant in their lives?

2. What did the council of war discuss at Terabithia that afternoon?

3. What plan of action to they decide on to pay back Janice Avery?

4. Do you think Leslie and Jess were wise to reveal the truth to May Bell

about who wrote the letter to Janice Avery?

Chapter 6

It'll be Christmas soon, and Jess has no money but desperately wants to find something for Leslie. At last he sees a stand with free puppies, and brings one to Leslie. Leslie is thrilled with the puppy and names him Prince Terrien, and gives Jess an expensive set of paints and paper in return. Jess's family Christmas doesn't go nearly so well, as his father becomes frustrated with the cheap car set he bought for Jess. Jess escapes the tension of his family to return to Terabithia with Leslie.

1. What were the girls obsessed with at Jess' house?

2. What did Jess plan to give Leslie for Christmas initially?

3. Why did Jess get off the bus before his normal stop?

4. Why does Jess make sure that he and the puppy enter Terabithia only

by the prescribed entrance?

5. What does Leslie give Jess for Christmas?

6. Explain the sentence, "That night the glow of the afternoon stayed with

him".

Journal Entry: (Connecting) Make a Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self or Text-to-World connection. Think about Jess’ Christmas day at his home.

Chapter Vocabulary

Chapters 1 - 2 Vocabulary

Match the follow words to their definition:

___ goggle-eyed (adj.) a. cautious and secretive: secretive and refusing to be open, frank, or direct

___ obedient (adj.) b. to lower the body stance especially by bending the legs

___ hypocritical (adj.) c. moral: conforming to accepted standards of moral behavior

___ grits (n.) d. to dislike somebody or something intensely and with contempt

___ endure (v.) e. survive: to last or survive over a period of time

___ cagey (adj.) f. wide-eyed: with staring eyes

___ primly (adv.) g. indomitable courage, toughness, or resolution

___ despised (v.) h. coarsely ground hulled grain, cooked oats

___ decent (adj.) i. not being or expressing what one appears to be or express

Web Quest

Chapters 5 - 7 Vocabulary

Fill in the blank with the correct word for each definition. Identify each word as an adjective (adj.), noun (n.) or verb (v.)

_______________ ___ a recess or partly enclosed extension connected to or forming part of a room

_______________ ___ filled with astonishment and perplexity; confounded

_______________ ___ unite into one system or whole

_______________ ___ unwilling; disinclined

_______________ ___ deep to vivid purplish red to vivid red

_______________ ___ the contemplation or consideration of some subject

_______________ ___ the killing of a king

_______________ ___ of or suggestive of the moon or moonlight; moonlit; dreamy in mood or nature

_______________ ___ to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner

_______________ ___ gave aid or information to an enemy of

_______________ ___ defensive wall or elevation, as of earth or stone, in a fortification

_______________ ___ self-imposed absence from one's country

dumbfounded exiled crimson regicide

betrayed alcove speculation consolidated

snickered moony reluctant parapets

Chapters 1 - 2 Vocabulary

___ goggle-eyed (adj.) a. cautious and secretive: secretive and refusing to be open, frank, or direct

___ obedient (adj.) b. to lower the body stance especially by bending the legs

___ hypocritical (adj.) c. moral: conforming to accepted standards of moral behavior

___ grits (n.) d. to dislike somebody or something intensely and with contempt

___ endure (v.) e. survive: to last or survive over a period of time

___ cagey (adj.) f. wide-eyed: with staring eyes

___ primly (adv.) g. indomitable courage, toughness, or resolution

___ despised (v.) h. coarsely ground hulled grain, cooked oats

___ decent (adj.) i. not being or expressing what one appears to be or express

___ muddled (adj.) j. lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness

___ crouch (iv.) k. willing to do what someone tells you to do

___ grit (n.) l. proper or formal in manner

Chapters 8 - 10 Vocabulary

Choose the word that best means the same as the word or words underlined in the following sentences.

__________ “I will arise,” he replied with honor, “when thou remove this fool dog off my gut”.

__________ Jess knew now that he would never be the best runner of the fourth and fifth grades, and his only solace was that neither would Gary Fulcher.

__________ “Get up, king of Terabithia, and let us proceed into our kingdom.

__________ Nor any of the rivals whom Leslie imagined attacking Terabithia, could ever really defeat them.

__________ “Methinks some evil being has put a hex on our beloved

__________ It was like Brenda throwing an angry outburst over Joyce Ann touching her

__________ May Belle, agitated because she believes Leslie's lack of faith in the Bible means she is going to hell, repeats over and over, "But Leslie, what if you die? What if you die?"

__________ He instantly regretted his unkindly manner

__________ Because he wasn’t listening to the words, the man’s red face with sweat pouring down seemed strangely out of place in the dull temple.

__________ It would make you stop in your tracks to see how these girls make a dramatic display of themselves in church.

__________ May Belle sat majestically and calmly through the segment is like a queen

__________ She was impatient to be gone, so Jess scooped up the drenched dog and shoved him rear-first into the cave of Leslie’s

Arise (v.) consolation (n.) curse (n.) dignity (n.)

foes (n.) foreshadow (v) regally (adv.) repent (v.)

sanctuary (n.) sodden (adj.) spectacle (n.) tantrum (n.)

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Chapters 11 - 13 Vocabulary

Choose a word that matches its definition and completes the statement. Each word will be used twice.

__________ make a break in astronaut

__________ attribute responsibility to blame

__________ a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) current

__________ become invisible or unnoticeable disappear

__________ an indication that makes something evident evidence

__________ feeling or showing gratitude grateful

__________ a person trained to travel in a spacecraft interrupt

__________ the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building materials. lumber

__________ state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one mourning

__________ effusively or insincerely emotional mushy

__________ the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest objection

__________ enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas sincere

__________ open and genuine; not deceitful

__________ “I just want to give you my __________ sympathy.”

__________ His mother had never allowed him to have a dog, but she made no __________ to P.T. being in the house.

__________ Mrs. Myers is also a loving, caring, but __________ person.

__________ “Could I have some of the __________ on the back porch?”

__________ He watched them all __________ over the hill.

__________ She had left him stranded there—like a/an __________ wandering about on the moon

__________ I shall always be __________ for your help.

__________ He sounded like someone in an old __________ movie.

__________ It was dark and damp, but there was no __________ there to suggest that the queen had died.

__________ He wanted, too, to know that Bill didn’t __________ him for anything.

__________ The paints floated on top, riding the __________ like a boat on a river.

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