Product Overview
Boost Student Involvement With The Novel Unit™ Teacher Guide for The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories by O. Henry!
Novel Units give you some background about the author and the book, initiating activity suggestions, vocabulary activity suggestions, questions (and answers) for each section of the book along with suggested supplementary activities. They usually also have a series of worksheets, mostly in graphic organizer format, to help reinforce vocabulary, the key elements of fiction, and students' literary analysis of the work.
Stories Covered:
The Gift of the Magi, The Cop and the Anthem, Springtime à la Carte, The Green Door, After Twenty Years, The Furnished Room, The Pimienta Pancakes, The Last Leaf, The Voice of the City, While the Auto Waits, A Retrieved Reformation, A Municipal Report, A Newspaper Story, The Ransom of Red Chief, A Ghost of a Chance, and Makes the Whole World Kin
Novel Unit Teacher Guides include:
• summary of the story
• about the author
• background information
• pre-reading activities
• vocabulary builders
• discussion questions and answers
• graphic organizers
• writing ideas
• literary analysis
• post-reading discussion/writing ideas
• cross-curriculum extension activities
• assessment
• scoring rubric
