Teacher's Guide and Resources
Teacher's Guide
An indispensable aid in using the novel in classes or in small groups.
The Teacher’s Guide provides:
- Questions to stimulate discussion and reflection
- Vocabulary lists
- Extension activities
- Student assignment pages which can be used as masters
- Answers to questions
The Questions can be used in a number of ways, including:
- For teacher-led discussion
- As homework assignments
- As a basis for a cooperative learning approach, such as a jigsaw, with different groups responsible for different chapters, or for different elements in each chapter: character development, plot, setting, themes, vocabulary.
The Vocabulary lists are provided to:
- Assist teachers in focussing on words whose difficulty may interfere with the students’ understanding of the story
- Enrich students’ active vocabulary by up to 200 new words
- Provide a basis for teacher-organized cooperative learning activities as both an optional activity for study, as well as a flexible resource to be accessed as the teacher sees fit according to the reading level of the class. Robert Slavin’s STAD (Student Teams-Achievement Divisions) is particularly well-suited to learning vocabulary.
The Extension activities are provided as follow-up activities relating to the chapter read.
The Concluding Activities relate to the novel as a whole.
Anti-Bullying Internet Resources
www.bullyproofclassroom.com/great-anti-bullying-activities
www.educationworld.com/a_curr/what-schools-can-do-to-stop-bullying.shtml
www.bullyfreealberta.ca/pdf/CS_Cyberbullying.pdf
antibullyingcrusader.com/day/anti-bullying-day
www.loveourchildrenusa.org/kids-teens
www.//files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED407154.pdf
www.myvision.org/guides/bullying-from-glasses/