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    Maniac Magee - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6
    Maniac Magee - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6
    Maniac Magee - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6
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    Maniac Magee - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6

    By Eleanor Summers

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    Inspire your students with this brave story about racism and homelessness. The helpful journal topics offer extended writing activities and discussion prompts. Students come up with possible story ideas that could relate to the title, "maniac". Illustrate the scene between McNab and Maniac. Match quotes to the characters who said them. Students confront the idea of discrimination by identifying some of the ways people discriminate against other people. Find proof from the story to support the different qualities inhabited by Maniac and Grayson. Give meaning to expressions from the story. Identify each expression as a simile or metaphor. Identify a major and minor problem that Maniac faces in the story and explain each in a paragraph. Aligned to your State Standards, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

    About the Novel:
    Maniac Magee is a Newbery Medal winning-story about a young homeless boy running through town and the different people he meets along the way. Orphaned at the age of three, Jeffrey Magee runs away from his Aunt and Uncle eight years later. He finds himself in Two Mills, Pennsylvania, where he realizes the town is split in half—the East End and the West End. Running his way through the town, Magee learns of the hatred and racism that separates the two sides. Along the way, he meets a wide range of interesting characters, and even develops a legend for himself, earning him the nickname "Maniac". He endures hardships while moving from place to place, eventually finding a home in a buffalo pen at the zoo.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCCP Interactive
    Release dateJun 10, 2014
    ISBN9781771673655
    Maniac Magee - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6
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    Eleanor Summers

    Eleanor Summers, artist, writer, self proclaimed minimalist living in the fringe.

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      Maniac Magee - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6 - Eleanor Summers

      A Literature Kit™ FOR

      Maniac Magee

      By Jerry Spinelli

      Written by Eleanor M. Summers

      GRADES 5 - 6

      Classroom Complete Press

      P.O. Box 19729

      San Diego, CA 92159

      Tel: 1-800-663-3609 | Fax: 1-800-663-3608

      Email: service@classroomcompletepress.com

      www.classroomcompletepress.com

      ISBN - 13: 978-1-55319-242-9

      eISBN: 978-1-77167-365-5

      © 2015

      Permission to Reproduce

      Pages of this publication designated as reproducible may be reproduced under licence from Access Copyright. All other pages may only be reproduced with the express written permission of Classroom Complete Press, or as permitted by law. All rights are otherwise reserved and no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanic, photocopying, scanning, recording or otherwise, except as specifically authorized. Permission is granted to the individual teacher who purchases one copy of this book to reproduce the student activity material for use in his or her classroom only. Reproduction of these materials for colleagues, an entire school or school system or for commercial sale is strictly prohibited. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities.

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      Maniac Magee

      Teacher Guide

      Our resource has been created for ease of use by both TEACHERS and STUDENTS alike.

      Introduction

      Our literature kit is designed to give the teacher a number of helpful ways of making the study of this novel a more enjoyable and profitable experience for the students. Our guide features a number of useful and flexible components, from which the teacher can choose. It is not expected that all of the activities will be completed.

      One advantage to this approach to the

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