This is a two-week literature guide for the book Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule, by Harriette Gillem Robinet. In this book, Pascal and his older brother Gideon attempt to claim the 40 acres (and a mule) that has the government has promised to former slaves. The guide includes:vocabulary activitiesdiscussion questionsreading activities: filling in charts, character webs, allusion, homonyms, map work, comparing and contrasting, parts of a story, creating a story mountain, reading aloud, poetry, read