Novel Unit - Al Capone Does My Shirts Teacher Guide Grades 6-8

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Categories: Language Arts, Language Arts — Literature, Language Arts — Vocabulary, Language Arts — Writing, Reading & Literature

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Teacher Guides

Teacher guides provide the framework for the novel, including any background information necessary to prepare students for the text. Discussion questions help you delve into the novel's plot, conflict, theme, and character motivations/interactions. Plus, they're designed to elicit student thought, discussion, and participation!

Time-saving, inspiring lesson plans provide a comprehensive novel unit—created by teachers for teachers. The legwork is done for you. The chapter-by-chapter guides incorporate research-based, higher-order reading, writing, and thinking activities.

32+ pages

Summary

"About the Author"

Character list

Background information

Initiating activities

Vocabulary activities (Gr.1–8)

Discussion questions and answers

Graphic organizers

Writing ideas

Literary analysis

Post-reading discussion questions

Cross-curriculum extension activities

Assessment Scoring rubric

See also Student Packet # 8781

Al Capone Does My Shirts #8723 Set in 1935, when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with there families, Moose Flannagan moves there so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose's family has used for dealing with her disorder. When Moose meets Piper, the cute daughter of the Warden, he knows right off she's trouble. But she's also strangely irresistible. All Moose wants to do is protect Natalie, live up to his parents' expectations, and stay out of trouble. But on Alcatraz, trouble is never very far away. Choldenko's second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the "good boy" stance he's taken his whole life.

Novel Unit - Al Capone Does My Shirts Teacher Guide Grades 6-8

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