The Bradys, the Flintstones, and the Simpsons are some of pop culture's most memorable families. So how do the Applewhites stack up? Using a novel study for Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan, scholars answer text-based questions about the zany family. They also create a map of the Applewhite property and write quatrain poems about a theme from the novel.

Concepts

children's literature, novels, protagonists, reading comprehension, setting, character descriptions, anagrams, quatrains

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Invite students to share their fascinating facts about Edith Wharton 

Classroom Considerations

• Resource covers a limited preview of the full novel study 
• Provide dictionaries for the vocabulary activity 
• Requires some research

Pros

• Includes pre-, during, and post-reading activities for a well-rounded lesson
  
• Comprehension questions address multiple areas of Bloom's taxonomy 

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.4.4 RL.5.1 RL.5.4 RL.6.1 RL.6.4 RL.7.1 RL.7.4