Mini-Guide for Middlers: The Golden Goblet Interactive

This is a two-week literature guide for the book titled The Golden Goblet, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. In this book, which is set in ancient Egypt, a boy named Ranofer dreams of becoming a goldsmith. After the death of his father, Ranofer's goal is thwarted by his evil half-brother.

This guide contains:

• vocabulary words and exercises
• discussion questions
• reading activities: characterization, metaphor, idioms, comparison and contrast, alliteration, effect and cause, simile, antonyms, prediction, time setting, pronouns, moods of verbs, personification, suspense, theme, repetition
• crafts
• directions to make and play a board game
• map work
• life applications/Bible
• related information and activities
• web links
• a crossword puzzle
• activities that may be used as assessments
• an answer key

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

1) Reproducibles -- They contain all of the fill-in-the-blank activities -- when you purchase the reproducibles, you have permission to make a copy for each of your students:

Mini-Guide for Middlers: The Golden Goblet Reproducibles

2) The guide is also available in a workbook format; in this format there is space for students to write all of the answers:

Mini-Guide for Middlers: The Golden Goblet Workbook (if you purchase the workbook, you do not need the reproducibles because all of the fill-in-the-blank activities are included in the workbook)

• NOTE: The content in the interactive guide and the workbook guide are the same; the only difference is spacing.

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