Mini-Guide for Juniors: Miracles on Maple Hill Interactive

This is a two-week guide for Miracles on Maple Hill, by Virginia Sorensen. In this book, ten-year-old Marly and her family spend time at Maple Hill in the hopes that her father will recover from his experiences as a POW. They help their neighbor, Mr. Chris, tap maple trees and make syrup.

This mini-guide includes:

• vocabulary words and exercises
• discussion questions
• reading activities -- Students will: compile a list of miracles, use a code to decipher a metaphor, answer math questions, predict, fill in a flower chart, review the prediction, summarize the problem, write descriptive sentences, read history related to this story, act out a scene, fill in a seasons diagram, read about Pure Minnesota Maple Syrup and arrange sentences in correct sequence, review your list of miracles, complete a literary device review, and create a poster. Students will learn about: the Newbery Medal, alliteration, time setting, comparative adjectives/superlative adjectives, theme, the problem, similes, metaphor, allusions, foreshadowing, idioms, pronoun, repetition, onomatopoeia, theme, and personification.
• map work
• life applications/Bible
• related information and activities
• more than 60 web links
• a crossword puzzle
• a complete answer key
• Post Reading Activities #1-6 can be used as assessments

This is an interactive guide that enables parents/teachers to facilitate an oral discussion of the book, but it only provides space for one student to complete the fill-in-the-blank activities. If you are interested in using this guide with more than one student, check out the options:

1) Reproducibles: Mini-Guide for Juniors: Miracles on Maple Hill Reproducibles

• When you purchase one set of reproducibles, you have permission to make a copy for each of your students.
• An Answer Key is not provided for the reproducibles; the answers for the activities on the reproducibles are found at the end of the mini-guide.

2) Workbook: Mini-Guide for Juniors: Miracles on Maple Hill Workbook

• If you purchase the guide in workbook format, you will not need the reproducibles.

NOTE:

• The content of the guide in interactive format and the guide in workbook format is the same; the only difference is spacing.

Mini-guides are used in home schools, co-ops, and traditional schools. Click on the link to browse through all of the Mini-Guides for Juniors.