Mini-Guide for Juniors: Miracles on Maple Hill Workbook

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 and 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.

In this workbook version of the guide, space is provided for students to:

1) write answers to all of the questions

2) complete the activities

This guide is also available in interactive format (space is not provided for students to write all of the answers): Mini-Guide for Juniors: Miracles on Maple Hill Interactive

NOTE:

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

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