The Chicken Doesn T Skate Novel Study

Wild things happen at the South Middle School when Milo's science project, Henrietta the chicken, becomes the hockey team's mascot and their only chance for a winning season.

The Chicken Doesn’t Skate is a coming of age story surrounding a group of students, a hockey team, and a chicken. Milo’s science fair project, entitled “The Complete Cycle of a Link in the Food Chain,” follows the life cycle of a chicken named Henrietta. All the children take turns looking after the chicken. When it’s Zachary’s turn, the chicken escapes and finds herself at the hockey arena. The hockey team, the Rangers, win their first game and keep Henrietta as their mascot. When it’s time for Henrietta to complete her cycle, the children must find a way to keep her out of the frying pan. This Novel Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, discussion questions and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

Macdonald Hall: Lights, Camera, Disaster! is about an all-boys school that has been chosen to be the setting for “Academy Blues”, starring Jordie Jones. Bruno Walton will do anything to be in this movie. Seth Dinkman — the director — will do anything to keep him out. Bruno tries everything from being a bush, a tap-dancing garbage picker, to a stuntman. Jordie and Bruno strike up a friendship when Jordie is invited to a card game at Macdonald Hall. Unknown to Seth Dinkman and the trip supervisors, Jordie joins the boys on a wilderness survival trip in Algonquin Park. The group gets lost in the park and is rescued by girls from Miss Scrimmage’s School. This Novel Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, chapter questions, crossword, word search, and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall is the story of two boys, Bruno and Boots, and a series of escapades that surround Macdonald Hall. Edward, Boots’ younger brother, has just enrolled at Macdonald Hall. Mr. Sturgeon, the Headmaster of Macdonald Hall, is considering resigning, saying that there are no more challenges left. A series of escapades captures everyone’s attention, including the dressing of Sir John A. Macdonalds's statue in a scuba suit; the blue-dyed swimming pool; detour signs on Highway 48; and the stuffing of the cannon with a human mannequin. The mystery unfolds as the two boys try to capture the person responsible. This Novel Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, discussion questions and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

I Want to Go Home is the story of a boy’s various escape attempts from Camp Algonkian. Rudy Miller is sent to Camp Algonkian by his parents on the misguided advice of the school guidance counselor. There, Rudy is determined to become his own man, by making snide comments of the camp founder’s bow-legs, playing chess instead of the scheduled activities, or making a salaté for his counselor. At night, instead of singing campfire songs, Rudy spends his time planning various escapes from the camp. When a badly planned wager leaves Rudy in charge of the camp for a day, the campers will either kill him or call him a hero. Our Novel Studies provide a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, discussion questions and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

A novel study based on the book by Gordon Korman.

Librarian and educator Michael Sullivan provides the tools that librarians, school library media specialists, and educators need to overcome cultural and developmental challenges, stereotyping, and lack of role models that essentially program boys out of the library. Attracting boys to library programs in the "tween" years will maintain their interest in books and reading over a lifetime, creating good health habits from a young age. Sullivan's practical and proven programming builds on the unique developmental needs and interests of boys in this middle stage. From playing chess to swathing the walls in butcher paper to give boys a physical space to respond to books, Sullivan's practical ideas and developmentally astute insights show librarian and teacher colleagues how to make vitally needed connections with this underserved population.

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