Novel Units Freedom Train Teacher Guide Gr 3-5

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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 #7763

Freedom Train #1274. It's 1947, and twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason is proud to have an older brother who guards the Freedom Train--a train that is traveling to all forty-eight states carrying the country's most important documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Clyde is chosen to say the Freedom Pledge at the train's stop in Atlanta, but his terrible stage fright forces him to refuse the honor. Instead, it's the class bully, Phillip, who gets selected, and he begins to torment Clyde. When an African-American boy saves him from a beating, Clyde is shocked. Especially when he learns that William lives in the white part of town. How can this be? And why can't he bring himself to be friends with William? Clyde hasn't told his parents he won't perform the pledge, nor has he mentioned his confusing friendship with a boy of color. So when the townspeople threaten William's family, Clyde has a choice to make: Will he keep quiet, or stand up for real freedom?

Novel Units Freedom Train Teacher Guide Gr 3-5

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