Mini-Guide for Middlers: The Trumpeter of Krakow Interactive

This is a mini-guide (a two-week literature study) for the book titled The Trumpeter of Krakow, by Eric P. Kelly. In this book, a family guards the Great Tarnov Crystal in Krakow in 1461.

This guide includes:

• vocabulary activities
• discussion questions
• reading activities – Students will: create a list, tell a story, fill in a chart, analyze a conclusion, and formulate conclusions. Students will learn about: protagonist, antagonist, characterization, the problem, alliteration, descriptive words and phrases, plants, similes, allusion, and theme.
• related activities
• writing activity
• life applications/Bible
• web links
• a crossword puzzle
• an Answer Key
• activities that may 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 the guide with more than one student, check out the options:

1) Reproducibles -- they contain all of the fill-in-the-blank activities:

Mini-Guide for Middlers: The Trumpeter of Krakow Reproducibles

a) When you purchase one set of reproducibles, you have permission to make a copy for each of your students.

b) 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 format -- space is provided for students to write all of the answers.

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

Mini-Guide for Middlers: The Trumpeter of Krakow Workbook

NOTE:

• The content of the guide in interactive format and 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 Middlers.