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Roald Dahl – Short Novel Unit

Table Of Contents

UNIT OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................... 2

MATILDA ............................................................................................................................................ 4

CHAPTER QUESTIONS ............................................................................................................................. 4

CHAPTER SUMMARIES ............................................................................................................................ 8

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH ......................................................................................... 11

CHAPTER QUESTIONS ........................................................................................................................... 11

CHAPTER SUMMARIES .......................................................................................................................... 12

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY ............................................................. 17



CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR ....................................................... 23



THE BFG ............................................................................................................................................ 28



THE WITCHES ............................................................................................................................... 36



EXTENSION ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................................ 41

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH ............................................................................................................ 41

BFG ..................................................................................................................................................... 42

STORYBOARD ................................................................................................................................ 48

WRITING A SHORT STORY .................................................................................................... 50

PLOT .................................................................................................................................................... 50

CHARACTERS ....................................................................................................................................... 51

SETTING ............................................................................................................................................... 52

CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................................ 53

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Unit Overview Book Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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1

Matilda Reading Story

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Summaries

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Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Movie -

Matilda

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Writing Writing Writing Writing

2 James and

the Giant

Peach

Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Movie – James

and the Giant

Peach


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3 Charlie

and the

Chocolate

Factory

Reading Story

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Charlie and the

Chocolate

Factory


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4 Charlie

and the

Great

Glass

Elevator

Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Summaries

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Reading Story

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Re-enacting part

of Story (group-

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Writing Re-enacting part

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Presenting Short

Stories

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Book Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

5 The BFG Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Reading Story

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6 The

Witches

Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Reading Story

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Witches (1st ½)

Movie – The

Witches (2nd

½)

Writing Writing Writing

7 The Nose

From

Jupiter

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Reading Story

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8 A Nose for

Trouble

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Matilda

Chapter Questions

The Reader of Books

Do school teachers like the way their proud parents talk about there terrible

children?

How do school teachers feel?

What could Matilda do by the following ages?

1. 1 ½

2. 3

3. 4

Name all the Charles Dickens books that Matilda has read.

Mr Wormwood, The Great Car Dealer

1. Is Mr Wormwood honest? Why or Why not?

2. What does Matilda do to stay calm when her parents yell at her?

The Hat and The Super Glue

1. What does Matilda do to teach her father a lesson?

2. What ends up happening as a result of Matilda‟s plan?

The Ghost

1. What di Mr. Wormwood do to Matilda‟s library books?

2. How did Matilda convince Fred to let her borrow Chopper the Parrot?

3. How did Matilda get revenge on her father in this chapter?

Arithmetic

1. How many cars did Mr. Wormwood sell?

2. Why do you think Mr. Wormwood can‟t accept that his daughter is

smart?

3. How much profit did Mr. Wormwood make from selling his cars?

The Platinum Blonde Man

1. Outline Matilda‟s revenge plan in this chapter.

2. How did she plan it?

3. What did she do?

4. What ended up happening?

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Miss Honey

1. Matilda surprises Miss Honey a lot. Why?

2. Answer these questions. The answers are all numbers.

3. How old is Matilda when she goes to school for the first time?

4. How many children are there in Matilda‟s group?

5. How old is Miss Honey?

6. What is fourteen multiplied by nineteen?

7. How many children in the group can spell ‟cat‟?

8. What type of poem does Matilda recite?4

The Trunchbull

1. What were some of the qualities that a headmistress should have?

2. How many of these qualities did Miss Trunchbull have?

3. Why did Miss Honey go to see Miss Trunchbull?

4. How did Miss Trunchbull feel about Matilda?

5. What made her feel this way if she had not met her?

The Parents

1. What type of textbook did Miss Honey give Matilda to study?

2. What time did Miss Honey go to see Mr and Mrs Wormwood?

3. Why did she go at this time?

4. What are the names of the magazines Mr. Wormwood reads every

week?

5. What does Mrs. Wormwood think is more important than books?

6. What does Mr. Wormwood think they teach at University?

Throwing the Hammer

1. What was Matilda‟s new friends name?

2. Who was Hortensia? What did she tell the two girls?

3. What is “The Chokey”?

4. What were two things that caused Hortensia to be put in the Chokey?

5. What did Miss Trunchbull do to Amanda? Why?

Bruce Bogtrotter and the Cake

1. What did Bruce Bogtrotter do to get in trouble?

2. Why was the cake that Bruce ate so special?

3. What did Miss Trunchbull do to punish Bruce?

4. What did the students do when Bruce finished?

5. What did Miss Trunchbull do?

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Lavender

1. What day and time would Miss Trunchbull teach Matilda‟s class?

2. Who was in charge of the water jug for Miss Trunchbull?

3. What did Lavender get from the river?

4. What do you think she is going to do with it?

The Weekly Test

1. Why did Miss Trunchbull get mad at Nigel?

2. What was the long word that the whole class had learned?

3. What did Miss Trunchbull do to Rupert? Why?

4. What did Miss Trunchbull do to Eric? Why?

5. What Charles Dickens book did Miss Trunchbull tell Miss Honey to

read?

The First Miracle

1. What is Miss Trunchbull‟s idea of a perfect school?

2. What was in the water jug?

3. Who did Miss Trunchbull blame?

4. What did Matilda do to the glass of water? How?

The Second Miracle

1. Describe what happens to Matilda when she makes the glass tip over?

2. If you had powers to move tings with your mind, what would you do

with it?

Miss Honey’s Cottage

1. Miss Honey describes Matilda as a precocious child. What is a

precocious child?

2. Describe Miss Honey‟s cottage in as much detail as you can.

3. List three things that show how poor Miss Honey is.

Miss Honey’s Story

1. Write a letter to a friend telling them all about Miss Honey. Include

as much of her life story as you can.

2. How did Miss Honey finally escape from her aunt?

3. What do you think happened to Miss Honey‟s father‟s will?

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The Names

1. What three questions did Matilda ask Ms. Honey before she went

home?

2. Why do you think Matilda wanted to know these names?

Practice

1. What object did Matilda use to practice her „powers‟?

2. What time of day did she do her practicing?

3. How many days did it take for her to master her skills?

Third Miracle

1. What day of the week did the „thrid miracle‟ take place?

2. What happens in Ms. Honey‟s class every Thursday?

3. Why did Miss Trunchbull faint?

4. How do you think the story will end?

A New Home

1. What happened to Miss Trunchbull?

2. According to Miss Honey‟s father‟s will, who was the rightfull owner

of the “The Red House?

3. What happened to Matilda‟s powers?

4. Why did Miss Honey say this happened?

5. Where was Matilda‟s family moving?

6. Where did Matilda end up living?

7. How did you like this story? Why or Why not?

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Matilda – By Roald Dahl Chapter Summaries

The Reader of Books

Mr Wormwood, The Great Car Dealer

The Hat and The Super Glue

The Ghost

Arithmetic

The Platinum Blonde Man

Miss Honey

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The Trunchbull

The Parents

Throwing the Hammer

Bruce Bogtrotter and the Cake

Lavender

The Weekly Test

The First Miracle

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The Second Miracle

Miss Honey’s Cottage

Miss Honey’s Story

The Names

Practice

Third Miracle

A New Home

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James and the Giant Peach

Chapter Questions

Day 1 – Chapters 1 – 13

1. Describe why it was so terrible for James to live with his aunts.

2. Write a short story about the man who gave James the beans.

- Where did he come from?

- Where did he get the beans?

- Who was he?

3. Pretend you are James writing in his diary. Write his journal entry for the

day he went into the peach.


1. Write a newspaper report about the peach rolling across the English

countryside. Include Who, What, Where, Why and When.

2. James came up with a brilliant plan to escape from the sharks. Describe

his plan and come up with a new plan of your own. Be as descriptive as

possible.


1. How did the cloud-men create all of the different weather?

2. Describe the cloud men‟s city.

3. Pretend you are a cloud-person. Write a diary entry for a typical day.

Include everything you would do from when you woke up iuntil you went

to bed.


1. What did all of the „travellers‟ end up doing with their lives after they got

to New York City.

2. If you had been James, what would you have done with your life when

you got to New York City?

3. Did you like this story? Why or Why not?

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James and the Giant Peach Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

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Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

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Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

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Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

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Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Chapter Questions

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chapters 1 – 3

1. What did Charlie love more than anything?

2. What was special about the Sunday meal?

3. What happened to Prince Pondicherry‟s castle of chocolate?

4. How many beds were at the Bucket house?

5. Mr. Bucket worked in _______ .

6. How many grown up(s) live with Charlie?

7. Who was Prince Pondicherry?

8. Who is Willy Wonka?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chapters 4 - 6

1. How many children can go in the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory?

2. Augusts Gloop found the first ____ .

3. What hobby does Augustus Gloop have?

4. How did Veruca Salt get her golden ticket?

5. Who found the second golden ticket?

6. What special present will Willy Wonka give the holders of the golden tickets?

7. How did Charlie learn about the golden tickets?

8. Veruca Salt was rich and ___________ .


1. What did Grandpa Joe and Charlie find in the candy bars that Charlie was given

for his birthday?

2. Who found the third golden ticket?

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3. What did Violet Beauregarde love to eat?

4. What kind of candy bar did Charlie get for his birthday?

5. What did Mike Teavee like to do?

6. Charlie‟s grandparents thought the winners with the golden tickets were ____ .

7. What did Grandpa Joe sneak and do?

8. How long did Violet chew on the same piece of gum?


1. What did Mr. Bucket do after losing his job to earn extra money?

2. What did Charlie find walking home from school?

3. Who went with Charlie to the chocolate factory?

4. Who found the last ticket?

5. How many candy bars did Charlie eat trying to find the golden ticket?

6. One lady in the store where Charlie found the ticket tried to _______ .

7. What did the storekeeper tell Charlie to do?

8. What would each person who held the golden ticket go home with?

9. Charlie found the golden ticket ______ .


1. Why were the biggest rooms in the chocolate factory underground?

2. Who were the little people on the other side of the chocolate river?

3. Who was the owner of the chocolate factory?

4. Where did Willie Wonka take everyone first?

5. What did Willie Wonka look like?

6. What was in the chocolate room?

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7. How much chocolate was in the chocolate room?

8. What did the Oompa-Loompas look like?


1. What did Veruca want?

2. Who fell in the chocolate river?

3. How did the group travel from the chocolate room?

4. Where did Augustus Gloop go after falling into the chocolate river?

5. What did the Oompa-Loompas like to do?

6. What made the pink boat go?

7. The boat went through a ____________ .

8. Each room in the tunnel (54, 71, 77) had __________ .


1. Who did Willy Wonka make the gobstoppers for?

2. Willie Wonka said the gobstopper never _______ .

3. What happened when Violet Beauregarde chewed the gum?

4. What did the gum taste like?

5. The gum had a _________ course meal.

6. What did Violet turn into?

7. Which room was top secret?

8. How many children are still touring the factory?


1. The square candy looked _____ .

2. What was special about Mr. Wonka‟s cows?

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3. Where did the children go after leaving the Inventing Room?

4. Why couldn‟t people go into the nut room?

5. What happened to Veruca?

6. What did Veruca want?

7. What happened to Mr. and Mrs. Salt?


1. The glass elevator was full of _____ .

2. Which room did Mike Teavee want to visit?

3. Mr. Wonka sent a ________ through the television.

4. Why do the Oompa-Loompas sing?

5. What caused Mike Teavee to get small?

6. How big was Mike Teavee after traveling through the air?

7. How did Willie Wonka suggest Mike Teavee be returned to normal?

8. What did the Oompa-Loompas want children to do?


1. What button did Mr. Wonka choose in the elevator?

2. When Mike Teavee left the factory he was ______ .

3. When the Salt family left the factory they were ___________ .

4. When Augustus Gloop left the factory he was ______ .

5. When Violet Beauregarde left the factory she was ______ .

6. Augustus, Violet, Veruca, and Mike left the factory with ____________ .

7. Willy Wonka did not have ___________ .

8. Who did Willy Wonka give his chocolate factory to?

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1 -2

Chapter 3-4

Chapter 5-6

Chapter 7-8

Chapter 9-10

Chapter 10-11

Chapter 12-13

Chapter 14-15

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Chapter 16-17

Chapter 18-19

Chapter 20-21

Chapter 22-23

Chapter 24-25

Chapter 26-27

Chapter 28-29-30

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Chapter Questions

Chapters 1-4 – Pgs – 1 – 34

1. Who are all the occupants of the Elevator when they blast into space?

2. Why is it such an important day in space?

3. Predict what will happen in the next few chapters of the book?

4. Create an advertisement for the Space Hotel “USA”. Include prices and all

activities that would be included. Make it sound as fun as possible.

Chapters 5-9 – Pgs 34 – 69 1. What is a “Vermicious Knid”? Describe what they look like as well as how they

act. Would you want one as a pet? Why or Why not?

2. Write a diary entry for one of the Vermicious Knids on the day the elevator

arrived at the Space Hotel. Include from when you woke up until you went to

bed.

3. If you were invited to the White House, what would you say the United States

president? What would you say to Canada‟s Prime Minister?

Chapters 10 – 14 – Pgs 69 - 10 1. What is “Wonka-vite”? What does it do?

2. If you could create any formula that could do anything what it would it be? What

would it do? Why would you take it? Be as creative as possible.

3. What would have happened had they missed the Chocolate Factory and landed

somewhere else? Write a short story from when they would have landed.

Chapters 15 – 16 – Pgs 100 – 129 1. What is the recipe for “Wonka-Vite”

2. How old would somebody be?

3. A 73 year old man takes 3 pills.

4. A 67 year old women takes 4 pills.

5. A 29 year old man takes 4 pills.

6. If you took 1 pill.

7. What is the recipe for “Vita-Wonk?

Chapters 17 – 20 – Pgs 129 – 15 1. How many pills would somebody need?

2. 300 years old wants to be 40.

3. 278 wants to be 38

4. 60 years old wants to be 20.

5. Why do think the Grandparents actually wouldn‟t get out ogf bed?

6. Continue the story. What happens on the way to the white house?

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Charlie and the Great glass Elevator Chapter Summaries

1. Mr. Wonka Goes to Far

2. Space Hotel “U.S.A”

3. The Link Up

4. The President

5. Men From Mars

6. Invitation to the White House

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7. Something Nasty in the Elevators

8. The Vermicious Knids

9. Gobbled Up

10. Commuter Capsule in Trouble – Attack Number 1

11. The Battle of the Knids

12. Back to the Chocolate Factory

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13. How Wonka-Vite was Invented

14. Recipe for Wonka-Vite

15. Goodbye, Georgina

16. Vita-Wonk and Minusland

17. Resue in Minusland

18. The Oldest Person in the World

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19. The Babies Grow Up

20. How to Get Someone Out of Bed

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The BFG

Chapter Questions

Chapter 1 1. Where does the story take place?

2. What descriptive words are used to describe the Setting?

3. How did Chapter 1 make you feel?

4. Explain why

5. What words did Roald Dahl use to make you feel like that?

6. Predict what may happen in the book.

Chapters 2 & 3.

As you read, write 15 words that you would like to find the meaning of:

1. _________________

2. __________________

3. __________________

4. __________________

5. __________________

6. __________________

7. __________________

8. __________________

9. __________________

10. _________________

11. _________________

12. _________________

13. _________________

14. _________________

15. _________________

Now using a Dictionary, write the meanings of each word

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Chapters 5 and 6

1. Remember to answer in complete sentences.

2. What did Sophie think the BFG's ears were as big as?

3. What was the BFG's favourite human bean? (human being) Why?

4. What do the letters BFG mean?

5. How did Sophie feel when the BFG told her the good news that he

didn‟t eat human beings?

6. The Giant uses funny words when he talks. What do you think these

words mean?

a. "I is a man-gobbling cannybull"

b. "The Turks are more scrumdiddlyumptious!"

c. "Some are uckyslush"

d. "Your head is emptier than a bundongle"

e. "They would put me in the zoo with all those squiggling

hippodumplings and crocadowndillies"

Write a description of the Giants, Sophie saw. Use at least 6 Adjectives to

describe them.

Chapter 7

Imagine you are Sophie. Write a Diary entry about what she found out

about the BFG.

Describe a Snozzcumber. Draw a picture.

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Chapter 9 - 11

1. Describe the Bloodbottler.

2. How was the Bloodbottler different to the BFG?

3. Where did Sophie hide? What happened to her?

4. What did you like best about these Chapters?

5. What did you learn about the BFG?

6. How did the relationship between Sophie and the BFG change in this

Chapter?

7. On the next page draw a bottle of Frobscottle.

a. What will you write on the label?

b. What are the ingredients?

c. What color will it be?

Chapter 12 – 13

Read Journey to Dream Country

Find the Dictionary meaning for:

1. protest (page 70)

2. wasteland (page 71)

3. intercept (page 72)

4. clustering (page 73)

5. hurled (page 75)

6. desperately (page 78)

7. phenomenal (page 79)

8. blurred (page 79)

9. vast (page 80)

10. barrier (page 80)

Draw what you imagine "Dream Country" would look like:

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Chapter 14 - 15

1. Why did Sophie feel helpless?

2. What did the BFG say to make Sophie angry?

3. What was Sophie‟s plan?

4. What was included in the dream?

5. Describe the Palace.

6. Why was the BFG frightened of going to London?

7. Do you think Sophie is afraid of the BFG? Why or why not?

8. Retell the “Dreams” Chapter in your own words.

Chapter 16 –17

Write the Dictionary meaning for each word and write an interesting

sentence for

each word.

1. captured

2. glimpse

3. pulsing

4. contraption

5. fetched

6. swivel

7. tremendous

Now it is your turn to mix your own Dream! Use your imagination!

Ingredients:

1. What will the Dream do?

2. How do you mix up the Ingredients?

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Chapter 18 – 19

You are to write and illustrate a Cartoon strip using the dialogue from the

story.

Choose some of the important events and retell the story using your own

dialogue. Remember to use QUOTATION MARKS.

Chapter 20 – 21

Write 10 words to describe the Setting at the Royal Breakfast.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Describe in sentences what the meeting between the Queen and the

BFG was like. Draw the scene.

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Chapter 22 - End

1.Where was Sophie hiding?

2. Where did they fly?

3. What did each jeep contain?

4. What was the loud noise the Head of the Army heard?

5. Which giant woke up first?

6. What did Sophie do to help?

7. What was the 'amazing spectacle'?

8. Describe where the Giants were taken?

9. Do you think Sophie's plan was a good one? Why or why not?

10. Explain the ending of the Story. Do you think it is a good ending? How

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The BFG

Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

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Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

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The Witches

Chapter Questions

Chapters 1-4 – Pgs 1 – 47

1. What are all the signs to spotting a real witch?

2. The boy lives in Norway with his Grandmother. Describe a place you

have been.

i. Where did you go?

ii. Why did you go there?

iii. Who did you go with?

iv. When did you go?

v. What did you do there?

3. Describe the boys‟ tree fort.

4. How would you protect yourself from witches?

5. On a separate piece of paper, draw a picture of a „real witch‟.

Chapters 5 – 8 – Pgs 48 – 87

6. The boy and his grandmother get to go away after all, but not where they

really wanted to. If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Choose

any place, any time, from real life or from a story you have read. Why

would you choose to go there?

7. What is the Grand High Witches plan to rid England of all the children?

8. In the story, the boy gets two pet mice and trains them to walk a tight rope.

Write a short story from the pet mice‟ s point of view.

Chapter 9 – 13 – Pgs 88 – 123

9. Pretend you are one of the witches writing down the recipe. What is the

recipe for Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker? Include all

ingredients, how to prepare them, and why they are needed?

10. Do you feel sorry for Bruno? Why or Why not?

11. What would you do if you had been transformed into a mouse? Include as

much detail as possible.

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Chapter 14 – 17 – Pgs – 124 – 158

12. Why do you think the boy isn‟t very sad about becoming a mouse? What

had his life been like as a boy?

13. What do you think Bruno‟s parents would have done if he had told them

who he was? Would they keep him in a cage? Would they let him go to

school? Include as much detail as you can.

14. Predict how this story is going to end. Write your own conclusion to the

story.

Chapter 18 – 22 – Pgs 158 – 208

15. If you were a mouse, what things that you have in your house would you

use to:

i. Have a bath

ii. Brush your teeth

iii. Where would you sleep?

iv. What clothes would you wear?

v. How would get around your house?

vi. Turn a page of a book?

16. Write the next chapter that would come after the end of the story. How

would their plan to rid the world of witches turn out?

17. Did you enjoy this story? Why or Why not?

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The Witches

Chapter Summaries

1. A Note About Witches

2. My Grandmother

3. How to Recognize a Witch

4. The Grand High Witch

5. Summer Holidays

6. The Meeting

7. Frizzled Like a Fritter

8. Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker

9. The Recipe

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10. Bruno Jenkins Disappears

11. The Ancient Ones

12. Metamorphosis

13. Bruno

14. Hello Grandmother

15. The Mouse Burglar

16. Mr. And Mrs. Jenkins Meet Bruno

17. The Plan

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18. In The Kitchen

19. Mr. Jenkins and His Son

20. The Triumph

21. The Heart of a Mouse

22. It’s Off to Work We Go!

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Extension Activities

James and The Giant Peach

1) People We Know

Roald Dahl used the technique of personification (giving human characterisitics or

qualities to nonhumans) in this story. Many of these human characterisitics are

exaggerations. Yet, some of your students may recognize these traits in people they know

or in characters from another book. Create a chart which details people or characters who

have similar traits as the insects and James. Remind students not to hurt anyone's

feelings!

2) Overcoming Fear

A recurring theme in James and the Giant Peach is overcoming fear. Have your

students write about a time they had to overcome a fear. Questions you can use to

encourage good writing: What was James afraid of? What were the insects afraid

of? What are you (the student) afraid of? What strategies did the characters use to

overcome their fear? What strategies did you (the student) use to overcome your

fear? What are some common techniques of overcoming fear?

3) The Movie

Show your students the video version of James and the Giant Peach . Discuss

and/or create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the movie with the book.

Which one was better? Why?

4) Poetry Writing

There is a great deal of wonderful poetry in this story. This would be a perfect

opportunity for your students to try their hand at writing poetry. You may want

them to mimic the narrative form of poetry in the story. Or you could explore

other poetic forms: haiku, diamante, odes, sonnets.

5) Draw A Scene

Roald Dahl developed fantastic images in this book. Have your students create a

mural of the places the peach visited -- a timeline of the book's main events that

runs along the bottom of an extra-wide piece of paper will help orient them.

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BFG

The BFG

By Roald Dahl

Adapted for reader’s theatre from The BFG, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982 (Puffin, 1984)

GENRE: Fantasy

CULTURE: Contemporary (Britain)

THEME: Rationalism vs. mysticism

GRADE LEVEL: 4-7

ROLES: 4+

TIME: 10 min.

ROLES: Narrator 1, Narrator 2, BFG, Sophie, (Dream Characters)

NOTE: For best effect, position BFG closest to NARRATOR 1, and SOPHIE closest to

NARRATOR 2.

NARRATOR 1: Imagine late one night you couldn’t sleep, so you got out of bed and

looked out the window, and there you saw a giant!

NARRATOR 2: That’s what happened to a little girl named Sophie. There across the

street was a giant, with a long, thin trumpet and a large suitcase.

NARRATOR 1: Then the giant saw Sophie. Sophie jumped back into bed and under the

covers. But the giant reached through the window and grabbed her!

NARRATOR 2: Then he ran all night, until they reached his enormous cave…in Giant

Country.

* * *

BFG: (to himself, speaking of Sophie) Now, what has us got here?

NARRATOR 1: The Giant put the trembling Sophie on the table.

SOPHIE: (to herself) Now he really is going to eat me.

NARRATOR 2: …Sophie thought.

NARRATOR 1: The Giant stared hard at Sophie. He had truly enormous ears. Each one

was as big as the wheel of a truck.

BFG: (grins widely) I is hungry!

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NARRATOR 1: He grinned, showing massive square teeth.

SOPHIE: P-please don’t eat me!

BFG: (stares at her in surprise, then bellows with laughter) Just because I is a giant, you

think I is a man-gobbling cannybull! Me gobbling up human beans! This I never! All the

other giants is gobbling them up every night, but not me! I is the Big Friendly Giant! I is

the BFG! What is your name?

SOPHIE: My name is Sophie.

NARRATOR 2: …Sophie said, hardly daring to believe the good news she had just

heard.

SOPHIE: But if you are so nice and friendly, then why did you snatch me from my bed

and run away with me?

BFG: Because you saw me. I cannot possibly allow anyone to be seeing me and staying

at home! The first thing you would be doing, you would be scuddling around yodeling

the news that you were actually seeing a giant, and then people would be coming rushing

and bushing after me and they would be catching me and putting me into the zoo with all

those squiggling hippodumplings and crocadowndillies!

NARRATOR 2: Sophie knew that what the Giant said was true. If any person reported

actually having seen a giant, there would most certainly be a terrific hullabaloo. For a few

moments, the cave was silent.

SOPHIE: May I ask you a question?

BFG: Shoot away.

SOPHIE: Would you please tell me what you were doing in our village last night? Why

were you poking that long trumpet thing into those kids’ bedroom and then blowing

through it? And that suitcase you were carrying. What on earth was that all about?

BFG: If you is really wanting to know what I am doing in your village, I is blowing a

dream into the bedroom of those children.

SOPHIE: Blowing a dream? What do you mean?

BFG: I is a dream-blowing giant. When all the other giants is galloping off to swollop

human beans, I is scuddling away to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children.

Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time!

SOPHIE: (skeptically) Now, hang on a minute. Where do you get these dreams?

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BFG: I collect them.

NARRATOR 1: The BFG waved an arm at all the rows and rows of bottles on the

shelves.

BFG: I has billions of them.

SOPHIE: You can’t collect a dream. A dream isn’t something you can catch hold of.

BFG: (offended) You is never going to understand about it. That is why is not wishing to

tell you.

SOPHIE: Oh, please tell me! I will understand! Tell me how you collect dreams!

NARRATOR 1: The BFG settled himself comfortably in his chair.

BFG: Dreams is very mysterious things. They is floating around in the air like little

wispy-misty bubbles. And all the time they is searching for sleeping people.

SOPHIE: Can you see them?

BFG: Never to begin with.

SOPHIE: Then how do you catch them?

BFG: A dream, as it goes whiffling through the night air, is making a tiny little buzzing-

humming noise. But this little buzzy-hum is so silvery soft, it is impossible for a human

bean to be hearing it.

SOPHIE: Can you hear it?

NARRATOR 1: The BFG pointed up at his enormous truck-wheel ears.

BFG: Is you seeing these?

SOPHIE: (giggles) How could I miss them?

BFG: These ears maybe is looking a bit propsposterous to you, but they is very extra-

usual ears indeed. They is allowing me to hear absolutely every single twiddly little thing.

SOPHIE: You mean you can hear things I can’t hear?

BFG: You is deaf as a dumpling compared with me! I is hearing the footsteps of a

ladybug as she goes walking across a leaf.

SOPHIE: Honestly?

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NARRATOR 2: Sophie was beginning to be impressed.

SOPHIE: What else can you hear?

BFG: I can hear plants and trees.

SOPHIE: Do they talk?

BFG: They is not exactly talking. But they is making noises. For instance, if I come along

and I is picking a lovely flower, if I is twisting the stem of the flower till it breaks, then

the plant is screaming. I can hear it screaming, very clear.

SOPHIE: How awful!

BFG: It is the same with trees as with flowers. If I is chopping an axe into the trunk of a

big tree, I is hearing a terrible sound coming from inside the heart of the tree.

SOPHIE: What sort of sound?

BFG: A soft moaning sound. It is like the sound an old man is making when he is dying

slowly.

SOPHIE: (skeptically again) Is that really true?

BFG: (offended again) You think I is swizzfiggling you?

SOPHIE: It is rather hard to believe!

BFG: Then I is stopping right here! I is not wishing to be called a fibster!

SOPHIE: Oh, no! I’m not calling you anything! I believe you. I do, really! Please go on!

NARRATOR 1: The BFG regarded her gravely with his huge eyes.

BFG: I hope you will forgive me if I tell you that human beans is thinking they is very

clever, but they is not. They is nearly all of them notmuchers and squeakpips!

SOPHIE: (very offended) I beg your pardon.

BFG: The matter with human beans is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in

anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

NARRATOR 2: She had offended him, she could see that.

SOPHIE: Please forgive me and go on. Tell me how you catch the dreams.

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NARRATOR 1: The BFG gave her a long hard stare. Then he said,

BFG: The same way you is catching butteryflies. With a net.

NARRATOR 1: He reached out and picked up a pole. It was about thirty feet long, and

there was a net on the end.

BFG: Here is the dream-catcher. Every morning, I is going out and snitching new dreams

to put in my bottles.

NARRATOR 1: The BFG put down the pole. Then he picked Sophie off the table and

stood her on the palm of one of his huge hands. He carried her towards the shelves.

BFG: These are some of the good dreams. The "phizzwizards." Every dream is having its

special label on the bottle, so I can find it in a hurry.

SOPHIE: Would you hold me closer so I can read them?

NARRATOR 2: Sophie started to read the labels.

SOPHIE: "I is inventing a car that runs on toothpaste."

"I is able to make the elektrik lites go on and off just by wishing it."

"I is only an eight-year-old little boy but I is growing a splendid bushy beard and all the

other boys is jalous."

"I has a pet bee that makes rock & roll musik when it flies.

"I is abel to jump out of any high window and flote down safely." I like that dream.

BFG: Of course you like it. It is a phizzwizard! It’s a ringbeller! It’s whoppsy! This will

be giving some little tottler a very happy night when I is blowing it in. Look in the jar

carefully, and I think you will be seeing this dream.

NARRATOR 2: Sophie peered into the jar, and there, sure enough, she saw the faint

translucent outline of something about the size of a hen’s egg. There was just a touch of

color in it, a pale sea-green, soft and shimmering and very beautiful. There it lay, quite

peaceful, but pulsing gently, as though it were breathing.

SOPHIE: It’s moving! It’s alive!

BFG: Of course it’s alive.

SOPHIE: What will you feed it?

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BFG: It is not needing any food.

SOPHIE: Everything alive needs food. Even trees and plants!

BFG: (firmly) A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably

forever, until it is released and allowed to do its job.

NARRATOR 2: Sophie was silent. This extraordinary giant was disturbing her ideas. He

seemed to be leading her towards mysteries that were beyond her understanding.

BFG: You is a lovely little girl, but please remember that you is not exactly Miss

Knoweverything. Dreams is very mystical things. Human beans is not understanding

them. (gazes into a bottle) At all!

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Storyboard

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Writing a Short Story

Plot

Before writing a story, it is important to know what is going to happen in

your story.

The plot is what happens in the story.

My story is going to be about

Plots usually have four main parts: Introduction, Build-up Events, Climax,

and Resolution.

Draw a plot map for a story that you would like to write.

Introduction

Event #1

Event #2

Event #3

Climax

Resolution

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Characters

Characters are just as important to a story as the plot is. Understanding a

character is important because you need to know how that person would act

during different parts of your story.

Most stories have a good person (the protagonist) and a bad person (the

antagonist)

Create a protagonist and an antagonist for your story. Remember to include

their physical appearance as well as the type of person they are. Use

descriptive words from the list below if necessary.

Funny

Shy

Silly

Smart

Dumb

Outgoing

Rebellious

Mean

Quiet

Brave

Coward

Tall

Short

Skinny

Fat

Clumsy

Main Character 1

Protagonist (Good)

What do they look like?

What do they act like?

Main Character 2

Antagonist (Bad)

What do they look like?

What do they act like?

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Setting

Setting – After you have written a plot outline, you should already have a

good idea of what your setting(s) will be.

In the spaces provided below, write out the setting for your story. Remember

to use as much detail as possible.

Setting #1

When

Where

Setting #2

When

Where

Draw your settings

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Conclusion

Conclusion – By now you should have completed your Characters, plot, and

setting. The only thing left is to come up with your conclusion. Remember

that the conclusion is when everything must be wrapped up. Any conflicts

must be solved and any loose ends must be tied up.

Write the conclusion for you story

All of your planning should be complete at this point.

Now all that is left is to write your story.

Good Luck

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