Interview with Kate Di Camillo~~ author of THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX
Stone Soup, which includes some great artwork from famous museums or the young author Hall of Fame
Newberry
Award Winning books~ Can't find a good book?
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out this link. 
TAKE
A PEEK
at some
SEVENTH
GRADE LITERATURE~~
Avi ~The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
"A breathtaking
tale of betrayal, murder, and friendship on the high seas."
Literature
Group Questions
Industrial
Revolution ~ What was going on in England and America in the time of
Charlotte Doyle?
Charles
Dickens~This famous author wrote about the times in which Charlotte
Doyle lived.
A Newberry
Award Winner~~~
"Not eveyone was happy
in a "perfect" world."
Lois
Lowry~The Giver
Gathering Blue and The Messenger ~~sequels to The Giver? Check this out and decide~~~
Seeing
color~ What is color blindness all about?
"Schoolboy,
prankster, lover, con artist, adventurer, pirate, dreamer, hero--Tom Sawyer
is all of these and much more. He's the orginial, and still unsurpassed,
all-American boy."
An American
Classic~~~
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
In Green Hills of
Africa, Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes
from one book by Mark Twain called
Huckleberry
Finn..."
You will meet Huck
Finn in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
"When I was a boy, there
was but one permanent ambition among
my comrades in our village
on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman."
(from 'Old Times on the Mississippi', 1875)
Read
a short biography about Mark
Twain ~~the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ~~~
The
Quotable Mark Twain ~~ Read some of Twain's famous
quotes~~~
Tom
and Becky in McDougal's Cave~~~Great
information on caves! OR.....
Don't
want to get lost in a cave? Take a VIRTUAL
TOUR OF A CAVE !!
Superstitions~~Find
out about some of our most common superstitions~~
Questions for Novel:
Chapter
1
Chapters
9 & 10
Chapter
11
Chapter
12 & 13
Chapters
14 & 15
Chapters
16, 17, & 18
Chapters
22-24
Chapters
25-29
Chapter
30
Literature
Group Study Questions
Questions
for novel
The
Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Check it out~~S.E.
Hinton's official website!
Pre-reading activity~~Gangs vs. Cliques
Chapters One and Two:
Discussion
questions