Author Roald Dahl LITERATURE CIRCLE ROLE CARDS Illustrator CHAPTER ONE This is the old ramshackle house where James now lives with his two mean aunts The yard is desolate The house is on the hill and has great views ID: 217846
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James and the Giant PeachAuthor: Roald Dahl
LITERATURE CIRCLEROLE CARDSSlide2
IllustratorCHAPTER ONE
This is the old ramshackle house where James now lives with his two mean aunts. The yard is
desolate
.
The house is on the hill and has great views.
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ILLUSTRATOR
p. 4
Draw your
illustration on
the post-it!
Describe the illustration. Use
evidence
from the story… LOTS
OF EVIDENCE!!!Slide3
ConnectorCHAPTER ONE
I remember seeing a video where an enraged circus elephant named Tyke turned on his trainer. He then escaped to trample others in the streets.
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CONNECTOR
p. 1
Cite a quote from the chapter on
the post-it!
What about this quote reminds you of a past experience or of something else in the world you live in?
“Both of them suddenly got eaten up by an enormous angry rhinoceros which had escaped from the London Zoo.”Slide4
ConnectorCHAPTER ONE
Great Grandma Vickie had missing teeth, bony knuckles, and smelled of old greasy onions! Ha!
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CONNECTOR
p. 2
Find connections between the book and you, and between the book and the wider world. Try to connect what you are reading to your life, school,
community, other people
or problems.
My sister’s husband had an old ugly great grandma Vickie. She wasn’t nearly as bad as Sponge or
Spiker
.Slide5
Word WizardCHAPTER ONE
They lived – Aunt Sponge, Aunt Spiker
, and now James as well – in a queer
ramshackle
house on the top of a high hill in the south of England.”
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Word Wizard
p. 2
Locate an unfamiliar word. Write it down on the post-it. Quote the sentence it is in in the book. Use
context clues to help guess
it’s meaning. Finally, provide
definition.
ramshackle
run down?
beat up?
crummy
?
old?
DEFINITION: adj. Ready to fall apart; shaky, ricketySlide6
SummarizerCHAPTER SIX
Aunt Sponge discovered a peach on the highest branch of their peach tree. This was
a
fter James accidently spilled the magic crystals near the peach tree that
never grew fruit. Both the aunts can’t believe their eyes that there is a peach on that tree. They believe
it’s a miracle that it is growing bigger right in front of them!
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Summarizer
p.16-19
Provide a brief summary of the chapter. Describe the
main idea
of the chapter
.
This chapter is about the peach growing on the tree.Slide7
QuestionerCHAPTER SIX
I think James knew because he is the only one who knows about the magic crystals, and where they fell. The strange old man told him that whomever met the crystals first would get the full power of their magic!
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Questioner
p.18
Write down a question you have about this part of the book? Provide the
answer or what you think
the answer may be.
How did James know something peculiar was about to happen?Slide8
QuestionerCHAPTER SIX
I think the peach is going to grow as big as their house on the hill.
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Questioner
p.19
Write down a question you have about this part of
the book? Provide the
answer or what you think
the answer may be.
How big is the peach going to grow?Slide9
Literary LuminaryCHAPTER SEVEN
This simile is comparing the two mean aunts to safari hunters. They were inspecting the growing peach carefully. They weren’t sure nor trusting of it yet. This simile helps me visualize how the aunts were moving around the peach.
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Literary Luminary
p.23
Find a phrase, sentence, or scene you
LOVE
! It could be a metaphor, simile, rhyme, or
full of descriptive adjectives.
“They were like a couple of hunters who had just shot an elephant and were not quite sure whether it was dead or alive.”Slide10
Literary LuminaryCHAPTER SEVEN
This sentence is FULL of descriptive words for the giant peach. It appeals to my
sense of sight
. I can see all the beautiful colors of the peach in my mind. It makes me remember how much I also love to
eat peaches.
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Literary Luminary
p.23
Find a phrase, sentence, or scene you
LOVE
! It could be a metaphor, simile, rhyme, or
full of descriptive adjectives.
“The skin of the peach was very beautiful – a rich buttery yellow with patches of brilliant pink and red.”Slide11
PredictorCHAPTER SEVEN
I predict this because at the end of the chapter Aunt Spiker
tells Aunt Sponge that there’s money to be made from the peach. These two aunts seem to be nasty, greedy women who would do anything to get rich.
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Predictor
p.24
Make a prediction about what you think is going to happen next. Pay attention to see if you were right.
I predict that Aunt Sponge and Aunt
Spiker
will try to sell the peach for money.