The Indian In The Cupboard

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Lynn Reid Banks

A LiteratureHighlights Unit

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To use this study: We have divided the novel into 10 lessons or less. Each section covers 1-4 chapters of the book. Students will read the chapters for each lesson then do the activities which are in the lesson that go along with those chapters.

For Lesson 1 Read chapters 1,2,For Lesson 2 Read chapters 3,4For Lesson 3 Read chapters 5,6 For Lesson 4 Read chapters 7,8For Lesson 5 Read chapters 9,10For Lesson 6 Read chapters 11,12For Lesson 7 Read chapters 13,14For Lesson 8 Read chapters 15,16

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What is in this Guide? Daily Vocabulary Exercises including: Daily Context Clue Fill in the Blanks and one other exercise including:Crossword Thesaurus ABC order Break the CodeUnscramble Create a Brochure Letter Tiles Fill in the Word Word Search Correct Spelling Final Exercises: Picture Match Daily Comprehension Exercises including:Who, What, Why, Where, When and How questions, Multiple Choice, True and False, Main Idea, Sequence of Events. Key Event, Prediction, Comparison Fact and Opinion, Daily Literature Elements Exercises including:Pre-Reading Main Character Setting Main Problem Character Association Comparison Possible Solutions Cause and Effect Climax Plot Analysis Daily Create a Newspaper Prompts: Daily writing article writing assignments. Daily Handwriting Prompts: Statements from the reading or other famous sayings Daily Creative Writing Prompts:Imaginative, Descriptive, Process, Persuasive, Expository, Point of View, Poetry, Narrative, Dialogue, Compare and Contrast Daily “Making Literature Fun” Activity including: Create a Book Cover Cooking Sketch /paint Geography Sculpting Commandments Craft Mosaic Drama Game Menu (others) Final Research Topic Suggestion

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Lesson 11. grateful 2. petrified 3. absurd4. temptation 5. marvelous 6. haughty

Lesson 21. despised 2. bawling 3. uncompromisingly4. bargained 5. superstitious 6. reluctant

Lesson 31. ado 2. tourniquet 3. forlorn4. ancestors 5. tomahawk 6. bewilderment

Lesson 41. sarcastic 2. admiration 3. galvanized4. imperiously 5. hypnotize 6. ravenously

Lesson 51. filthy 2. experiment 3. infuriated4. scornful 5. complaint 6. truce

Lesson 6 1. outrageous 2. prospect 3. persecutor4. scrambling 5. mulish 6. paralyzed

Lesson 71. accusation 2. flummoxed 3. microscope4. sheepishly 5. pummeled 6. alighted

Lesson 81. unpredictable 2. frantically 3. perils4. stealthy 5. pricked 6. forefront

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Daily VocabularyDefinitions: Every day before you read, look up the vocabulary words in a dictionary from the list. Cut out the squares or use index cards. Write the word on one cowboy card and the definition on one Indian card. Keep these until the end of the unit to use in a game

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Lesson 1: Word StudyCrossword Puzzle: haughty, petrified, absurd, temptation, grateful, marvelousFill in the squares using some of these words from the word list:

Across2. very strange5. makes you want to do somethingDown1. stuck up conceited3. thankful for something4. very scared6. wonderful

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Lesson 1:VOCABULARY/MAIN THEMEContext Clue Fill in the Blanks: Write the vocabulary word from the list that best completes the sentence: grateful petrified absurd temptation marvelous haughty

1. When the Indian came to life, Omri thought it a __________ sight.2. The Indian was so scared; you could say he was __________.3. At first, Omri was not very __________ that Patrick had given him a plastic Indian.4. The boy thought so much of himself and spoke in a __________ voice5. Seeing cookies sitting on the shelf was too much __________ for the child, so he stole a cookie.6. A toy coming to life was such an __________ thought, that Omri al-most did not believe it.

Main Theme: Use several of the words from the list of vocabulary words to tell the main theme of the chapters.

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