Novel Study -- Chocolate Fever

Over the next two weeks, our class will be reading Chocolate Fever.  Our focus for this novel will be to:

• Regularly checking for understanding.  This can happen every paragraph, page or chapter, depending on ones level of understanding.
• Practice retelling what we have read.  If one cannot retell what they have read, they are extremely unlikely to infer.
• Summarize text:  Every three to four chapters, students will be asked to summarize the chapters, using only one or two sentences for each. The goal is to focus on what is important.
• Make predictions:  Students will work on making predictions before, during and after they read.
• Connections:  Students will work on making meaningful connections that include:  names and places, details, feelings and bring it back to the book.  The whole point behind a connection is take things from your own life and be able to apply it to the book (ex:  how a character may be feeling).
• Answer short comprehension questions.
• Asking a deep questions:  Students will work on asking deep questions (answer not found in the text) before, during and after reading.

Thanks to Google for the image.

Henry loves chocolate so much, it practically runs through his veins.  Chocolate cake, chocolate cereal, and chocolate cookies -- and that's just breakfast!  Still, it comes as a shock when he suddenly breaks out in chocolate brown spots and is diagnosed with ... Chocolate Fever.   Rather than be poked and prodded by doctors, Henry runs away, starting the adventure of a lifetime.  But at the end of it all, the question remains: Is there a cure for Chocolate Fever?

Note:  It is expected that students will read at home when needed.  From my experience, the quality of work goes up substantially when students reread the chapters. 

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,

Mr. Blick