Tiger Rising Novel Study

Group Novel Study March/ April 2014

Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

A. Read the following pages each week. Please resist the temptation to read ahead. We will be doing some predicting and inferring during our class discussions.  Questions should be answered based only on what has been read up to that point in time.

Novel	Week One Mar 17 –21		Week Two Mar 24 –28	Week Three Mar 31 – Apr 4	Week Four Apr 7 - 11
The Jacket		Pg 1-25	Pg 25 - 43-	Pg 44 - 70	Pg 71-89
Tiger Rising		Pg 1-25	Pg 26 – 55	Pg 56 – 86	Pg 87 - 116
The White Giraffe		Pg 1 - 45	Pg 46 – 86	Pg 87 – 134	Pg 135 -181
No Such Thing as Dragons		Pg 1 – 46	Pg 47 – 96	Pg 97 – 153	Pg 154 - 208
The Witches		Pg 1 – 49	Pg 50 – 93	Pg 94 – 146	Pg 147 - 186

Spelling list words

Week One – List 20 nouns	Week Two –  List 21 verbs	Week Three – List 22 adjectives	Week Four- List 23 adverbs
1.       building	1.       catch	1.  beautiful	1.  quickly
2.       discovery	2.  pretend	2.  bony	2.  carefully
3.       suitcase	3.  carving	3.  skinny	3.  finally
4.       breath	4  drumming	4.  impossible	4.  purposefully
5.       scalp	5.  whistle	5.  lacy	5.  loudly
6.       chapel	6.  swooping	6.   fierce	6.  unfairly
7.       tongue	7.  coughed	7.  endangered	7.  suddenly
8.       knuckles	8.  sculpted	8.  purple	8.  lightly
9.       tissue	9.  buried	9.  rotten	9.  miraculously
10.   forehead	10.  worried	10. perfect	10. normally
11.   frescoes	11.  shrugged	11.  heavy	11.  smoothly
12.   silence	12. ignored	12. gentle	12.  bravely

B. Spelling Counts – earn forty points per week by doing the spelling activities

C. Summarize each week’s reading in your own words.  Include all important events. Leave out minor details.

D. In your language notebook, answer the questions in the back of your novel.  Include the page number when giving evidence from the text.  

Week One Mar 17 –21

Week Two Mar 24 –28

Week Three Mar 31 – Apr 4

Week Four Apr 7 - 11

Questions (page 91 -92)

1, 2, 3, Wanted Poster

5, 6, 7

8, 9,

4, 10, 11, Portrait

* Create a “Wanted Poster” for the tiger.

* Draw and colour a portrait of either Sistine or Rob. Label your portrait with evidence from the text.