James and the Giant Peach

1. James and the Giant Peach By Roald Dahl

2. Content Standards - Vocab • Define the meaning of unknown words by using context clues and the author’s use of definition, restatement and example. • Use context clues to determine the meaning of synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homonyms and homographs. • Identify the connotation and denotation of new words. • Identify and understand new uses of words and phrases in text, such as similes and metaphors. • Use word origins to determine the meaning of unknown words and phrases. • Apply the knowledge of prefixes, suffixes and roots and their various inflections to analyze the meanings of words.

3. Content Standards – Comp. • Establish and adjust purposes for reading, including to find out, to understand, to interpret, to enjoy and to solve problems. • Predict and support predictions with specific references to textual examples that may be in widely separated sections of text. • Summarize the information in texts, recognizing that there may be several important ideas rather than just one main idea and identifying details that support each. • Make inferences based on implicit information in texts, and provide justifications for those inferences. • Select, create and use graphic organizers to interpret textual information.

4. Content Standards – Comp. • Answer literal, inferential and evaluative questions to demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate print texts and electronic and visual media. • List questions and search for answers within the text to construct meaning.

5. Content Standards – Rdg App. • Explain how a character’s thoughts, words and actions reveal his or her motivations. • Explain the influence of setting on the selection. • Identify the main incidents of a plot sequence and explain how they influence future action. • Identify the speaker and explain how point of view affects the text. • Summarize stated and implied themes. • Describe the defining characteristics of literary forms and genres, including poetry, drama, chapter books, biographies, fiction and non-fiction. • Interpret how an author’s choice of words appeals to the senses and suggests mood. • Identify and explain the use of figurative language in literary works, including idioms, similes, hyperboles, metaphors and personification.

6. Pre-Reading Activities • Make a prediction about what you think the book is about/what is going to happen. • What do you already know about the book? • What is on the cover? • Have you read other books by the same author?

7. Pre-Reading Activities • The genre is fantasy. • What does that mean? • What other books can be classified as fantasy? • What are some other genres?

8. Topics in the book • England • losing parents • living with relatives • being abused • insects and bugs • peaches • seagulls • flying • clouds, • New York City • the Empire State Building • Central Park

9. Abuse • What types of abuse are there? • Physical • emotional

10. Pre-Reading Activities • Answer these questions in complete sentences.

11. Pre-Reading Activities • Would you ever eat some magic green crystals from a strange old man? • Would you ever run away from home? • Would you ever make friends with someone different than yourself? • Would you ever risk your life to help a friend?

12. Pre-Reading Activities • Based on these quotes do you need to change your prediction?

13. About the Author • Roald Dahl was born September 13, 1916 in Llandaff, South Wales • He didn’t plan on being a writer, instead he worked for an oil company and joined the Royal Air Force. • Died November 23, 1990

14. Story Teaser • When James Henry Trotter accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree, strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Then James discovers a secret entranceway into the fruit, and when he crawls inside, he meets a bunch of marvelous oversized friends — Old Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, Miss Spider, and more. After years of feeling like an outsider in the house of his despicable Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, James has finally found a place where he belongs. With a snip of the stem, the peach starts rolling away, and the exciting adventure begins!

15. Novel Packet • Use loose leaf paper and construction paper to make your Novel Packet • You will need to fasten it using brads so that pages can be added if needed

16. Vocabulary • Cut out each box from your paper. • Try to match up the vocabulary word with the definition. • When you are finished check with other people at your table and compare answers.

17. Chapter 1 Vocab • Vast • nuisance • Ramshackle • Mischief • Wistfully

18. Reading • Read Chapter 1 out loud • Watch for vocabulary words to check our meanings • Listen carefully because we are going to write a summary

19. Visualization • Re-read the second paragraph on page 1 and visualize what James’ house looks like. • Re-read the last paragraph on page 2 and visualize what Aunt Sponge & Aunt Spiker’s house looks like.

20. Compare and Contrast • How do you think life at James’ parents’ house to compares to life with his aunts? • How do his aunts treat him versus his parents (make an inference)?

21. Discussion • How do you think James feels now that he is living with his aunts? How do you know? • How do his aunts treat James? Why do you think they treat him that way? • Is it okay for them to treat him like that?

22. Summary • Use a graphic organizer to make a one sentence (maybe two or three) summary of the chapter.

23. Summary of Chap 1

24. Characters & Setting • Start a list of all of the characters that we have been introduced to so far. • Record the settings that we have seen so far

25. Vocabulary for Chapter 2 • Peculiar • Enormously • Spectacles • Ghastly • Beauteous • Radiant • Brute

26. Vocabulary • Make a T-chart and predict what each vocabulary word means.

27. Poem • Re-Read the poem on page 5 • Read together as a class • Get together with the people at your table to create this Interpreting Poetry project.

28. Interpreting Poetry • Make a T-Chart • On one side list the words that you don’t know • On the other side write the inferred meaning • Read the selection aloud again substituting the words that you have inferred • Draw a picture of what is happening, the main character, and the setting. • Present your drawing and poem to the class.

30. Summary of Chap 2

31. Context Clues • Use Context clues to determine the meanings of the vocabulary words. • Read the sentence. • Determine meaning of word using surrounding words and sentences. • Replace the vocabulary word with your word and see if it makes sense. If not repeat step 2 and 3.

32. Vocabulary Chapter 3 • Rustling • Bristly • Beckoning • Hobbled • Musty • Luminous

33. Summary of Chap 3

34. Vocabulary Chapter 4 • Gulp • Froth • Miserable

35. Summary of Chap 4

36. Vocabulary Chapter 5 • Scattered • Vanished

37. Summary of Chap 5

38. Vocabulary Chapter 6 • Mistaken • Ripe

39. Summary of Chap 6

40. Vocabulary Chapter 7 & 8 • Extraordinary • Mammoth • Spellbound • Cautiously • Greedy

41. Summary of Chap 7-8

42. Vocabulary Chapter 9 & 10 • Trembling • Tunnel • Soggy • Gigantic • Horror • Glanced • Bolt

43. Summary of Chap 9-10

44. Vocabulary Chapter 11 • Recline • Famished • Faint

45. Summary of Chap 11

46. Vocabulary Chapter 12 • Disagreeable • Slither • Scornful • Musician • Colossal • Hysterics • Rascal

47. Summary of Chap 12

48. Vocabulary Chapter 13 • Hammock • Shimmered • Gossamer • Ambled • Drowsily

49. Summary of Chap 13

50. Vocabulary Chapter 14 • Desolate • Nibbling • Journey • Repulsive • Lurching • Venomous