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Copyright 2013 JasonElliott

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Reading Group GuideChapter one

Get into your reading groups and look overand read the cover. What do you notice? What do you think the bookis about? Who is James?

Vocabulary: Look up the followingwords.

Nuisance

Ramshackle

Desolate

Peculiar

Read chapter one and two together in yourgroups.

HW Answer the following questions:

Why does life change for James HenryTrotter

Describe Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. Wewill be adding to this chart later.

___ Aunt Sponge _____| ______ Aunt Spiker______

Reading Group GuideChapter Two

Review and discuss the questions and thechart together in your groups.

Vocabulary: Match the words in the correctsentence.

Mildewed

Hobbled

Wriggling

Spectacles

Aunt Spiker glared at him through hersteel-rimmed _____.

The old man ______ a step or twonearer.

He could actually see them ________ andtwisting as they burrowed.

His breathe smelled musty and stale andslightly __________.

Together in your groups read chapter3-5.

HW Chapter five left off with a bit of acliff hanger. Write three or four sentences about what could happennext? Keep in mind what the old man said.

Reading Group GuideChapter Three

Go over and discuss your writing from theprevious lesson in your groups.

Read chapter 6 8 together in yourgroups.

HW in a paragraph summarize the reading.(All three chapters should be summarized into ONE paragraph.)

Reading Group GuideChapter Four

Go over and discuss your paragraphs.

Go back to your charts with Aunt Spongeand Aunt Spiker. Are there any descriptive words you would like toadd?

Vocabulary matching

__ Dazzling

__ Bulge

__ Bittersweet

__ Recline

__ Scarlet

A. Sweet with a bitter aftertaste.

B. Extremely bright, esp. so as to blindthe eyes temporarily

C. A brilliant red color.

D. A rounded swelling that changes a flatsurface.

E. Lean or lie back in a relaxed positionwith the back supported.

Read chapter 9 11 together in yourgroups.

HW Design and create an advertisement forthe giant peach on a piece of poster paper. Make sure you includedetails and color.

Reading Group GuideChapter Five

View and discuss your advertisements fromhomework.

Read chapter 12 15 together.

HW Have everyone come up with threequestions from the reading. (Make sure you know the answer aswell)

Reading Group GuideChapter six

Go over and answer the questions fromhomework.

Vocabulary: Look up the followingwords.

Oozing

Pigsty

Chaos

Soggy

Read chapter 16 18 together ingroups.

HW Answer the following questions:

Describe what the people may have beenthinking as they saw this Giant peach rolling and crashing by.

What finally allowed the peach to stoprolling and crashing?

Why did the old Green Grasshoppersuggest they not go out the side entrance?

What did James help them understand whenthey were on the top of the peach concerning food?

Reading Group GuideChapter Seven

Go over questions from homework anddiscuss.

Vocabulary: Match the word with thesentence.

Awkward

Pandemonium

Threshing

Martyr

Panic and ________ broke out immediately ontop of the peach.

While they were waiting they could hear thesharks ______ around.

You will be a ______ and I will respect youfor the rest of my life.

I am afraid we find ourselves in a rather_____ position.

Read chapter 19 21 together.

HW: Choose three discussion leaders to comeup with two questions from the chapter. One leader take chapter 19,one take chapter 20, and one take chapter 21.

Reading Group GuideChapter Eight

Review and go over the discussion leadersquestions from the homework.

View and discuss Vocabulary:

Tethered tie with a rope or chain so asto restrict its movement

Hovered Remain in one place in theair

Mammoth - huge - enormous giant

Read chapter 22 24 together

HW Essay: We are starting to really get afeel for the personalities of the different characters. (Ladybug,Centipede, Earthworm, Grasshopper, Spider, Glowworm, and Silk Worm)From this list compare and contrast two characters. Your essayshould have a paragraph for compare and a paragraph for contrast(different.)

Reading Group GuideChapter nine

Read and discuss your essays with yourgroup.

Vocabulary: Look up the followingwords.

Trifle

Ghastly

Wraith-

Infuriate -

Read chapter 25 and 26 together.

HW Read chapter 27 and choose onediscussion leader to come up with three questions from thechapter.

Reading Group GuideChapter Ten

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