As a middle school student, what are your thoughts about friendship?  What is the definition of friendship?  What does it take to be a best friend? What blessings and implications could come along with the gaining of a best friend?  As you read "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Patterson, you will take a look at your thoughts to these questions, and you might just discover that during your reading, your answers change or develop in an entirely different way than you first expected.

1. When was Katherine Paterson born?

2. Where was Katherine Paterson born?

3. What was her first language?

4. Name some of the countries Katherine Paterson has lived in?

5. What did Katherine Paterson's parents do for work?

6. When did she get married?

7. Who did she marry?

8. How many children did she have?

9. When did she write Bridge to Terabithia?

10. Why did she write Bridge to Terabithia?

Week 2: Chapters 1 & 2 Activities

Vocabulary Words

1.     cagey: very careful not to be trapped or deceived.               

2.     thrashed:  to strike with force   

3.  crouched: to stoop or bend low with arms and legs close to the body. 

4.     pudgy:  short and plump

5.     despised: to feel scorn or dislike

6.     proverbial: a saying expressing a wise thought or belief.

7.     endure: to bear patiently

8.     primly: very fussy about one’s appearance

9.     goggle-eyed: to stare with bulging eyes

10.  plunked: to make a hollow, metallic, or harsh sound

11. grit: determination, courage

12.   pandemonium: a wild uproar

13.  grits:  coarsely ground hulled grain

14.     hypocritical: pretending to have values or virtues that one actually does not have.

15.    muddled:  a state of confusion

How Will I be Graded?

Throughout the completion of this learning web, you will be creating a portfolio for assessment purposes.  One form of the portfolio will be a hard copy of all of your work which we will keep in a folder in the classroom. Another form will be a computer disk on which you save all of your assignments.

Bridge Question

After reading Chapters 1 & 2, you need to go to Chapters 1 and 2 Bridge Question to complete a writing assignment.  You will need to type your answer on the provided page, save as "Chapter 1 & 2  Bridge Question," on YOUR OWN DISK and then print a hard copy for your portfolio. (Analysis)

Quiz

Go to Week Two Quiz   . Use your cursor to click underneath each question to type your answer.  After you have completed the quiz, only save the changes to YOUR DISK!  Then print out a hard copy to submit.  When you hit the X in the upper right-hand corner to close, if it asks if you would like to save changes, click NO.

(Knowledge, Comprehension, Synthesis)

Week 3: Chapters 3 & 4 Activities

 Vocabulary Words

 1. clabber: sour milk that has curdled

2.     consolation: something that comforts or consoles

3.  conspicuous: easily seen

4.  distribution: the process of dividing among many

5. exhilaration: to feel cheerful or in high spirits

6. grudgingly: a long lasting feeling against someone

7. intoxicated: to excite to enthusiasm or frenzy

8. Narnia: imaginary kingdom created by C.S. Lewis

9. ominously: being or showing a sign of evil or misfortune.

10. reassessing: to rethink the value or importance of something

11.  repulsive: causing disgust

12. retreating: the act of going away especially from something dangerous

13. roused: to make or become active

14. rumpus: a noisy commotion

15. sarcasm: a remark usually made to hurt someone's feelings.

16. siege: the placing of an army around a fortified place to capture it.

Bridge Question

After reading Chapters 3 & 4, you need to go to Chapters 3 and 4 Bridge Question to complete a writing assignment.  You will need to type your answer on the provided page, save as "Chapter 1 & 2  Bridge Question," on YOUR OWN DISK and then print a hard copy for your portfolio. ( Evaluation)

Quiz

Go to  Week Three Quiz   . Use your cursor to click underneath each question to type your answer.  After you have completed the quiz, only save the changes to YOUR DISK!  Then print out a hard copy to submit.  When you hit the X in the upper right-hand corner to close, if it asks if you would like to save changes, click NO.

(Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis)

Week 4: Chapters 5,6,&7 Activities

Vocabulary Words

1. annoyance: to disturb or to irritate

2. consolidated: a public school formed by joining two schools.

3. distracted: to draw the attention of the mind to something.

4. exiled: to force to leave one's country or home.

5. obsessed: to occupy the mind completely or abnormally

6. regicide: one who kills or helps to kill a king.

7. splurged: to spend more than usual.

8. vile: morally bad or physically ugly.

9. alcove: a small section of a room set off from the rest of it.

10. betrayed: to give over to an enemy.

11.  crimson: a deep purplish red

12. dumbfounded: to cause to become speechless.

13. moony:  dreamy

14. speculation: a prediction or talk of what is going to happen.

15. tolerated: beared or put up with.

Bridge Question

After reading chapters 5-7, you need to go to Chapters 5-7 Bridge Question to complete a writing assignment. You will need to type your answer on the provided page, save as "Chapters 5-7  Bridge Question," on YOUR OWN DISK and then print a hard copy for your portfolio. (Synthesis, Evaluation)

Quiz

Go to  Week Four Quiz   . Use your cursor to click underneath each question to type your answer.  After you have completed the quiz, only save the changes to YOUR DISK!  Then print out a hard copy to submit.  When you hit the X in the upper right-hand corner to close, if it asks if you would like to save changes, click NO.

(Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis)

Week 5: Chapters 8,9,&10 Activities

 Vocabulary Words

1.     complacent: a calm or satisfied feeling

2.     dread: causing great fear or anxiety

3.     flounce: to move with exaggerated jerky motions

4.     idly: lazy

5.     obliged: to earn the gratitude of

6.     raveled: to come apart

7.     sodden: dull or lacking expression

8.     squinched: to screw up the face

9.     vanquished: to defeat or gain control of completely.

10.   conspiring: to agree secretly to do something

11.   earnest: having or showing a serious attitude

12.  garbled: to change or twist the meaning

13.  muffled: to deaden the sound

14.  prissy: prim and precise, very proper

15.  repented: to feel sorrow for one’s sins

16.  sporadically: not frequent or often

17.   suppress: to put down by authority or force

18.   wheedling: to get someone to think or act

Bridge Question

After reading chapters 8-10, you need to go to Chapters 8-10 Bridge Question to complete a writing assignment. You will need to type your answer on the provided page, save as "Chapters 8-10  Bridge Question," on YOUR OWN DISK and then print a hard copy for your portfolio. (Synthesis, Evaluation)

Show and Tell

In the book, Jess had a love for and a talent in artwork.  You, too, possess interests and talents.  To prepare to share a little bit about yourself by presenting one of those things to the class, go to Show and Tell Directions , and complete the assignment. To see an example, go to Graphic Example.

(Knowledge, Comprehension)

Quiz

Go to  Week Five Quiz  . Use your cursor to click underneath each question to type your answer.  After you have completed the quiz, only save the changes to YOUR DISK!  Then print out a hard copy to submit.  When you hit the X in the upper right-hand corner to close, if it asks if you would like to save changes, click NO.

(Knowledge, Comprehension)

Week 6: Chapters 11,12,&13 Activities

 Vocabulary Words

1.     traitorous: guilty or capable of treason

2.     riot: a public violence, disturbance, or disorder

3.     retrieved: to recover or find

4.     relentlessly: not lessening in harshness or sternness

5.     objection: to oppose something

6.     dredging: to dig, gather, or pull up

7.     doused: to stick into water

8.     cremated: to burn a dead body into ashes

9.     chaos: complete confusion

10.   assuring: to provide a guarantee

Friendship Poetry

Throughout the reading of this book, you were guided to think about the friendships in your own life as you became a part of the friendship of Jess and Leslie.  Refer back to the questions first introduced to you at the beginning of this learning web.  Gather your thoughts on friendship, and write a 16 line poem describing what friendship means to you.  Complete your poem in Microsoft Word.  Center the text on the page, and include at least one graphic.  Don't forget to include your title and your name!   To see an example of how this should look, go to Poem Example After that,  use an internet search engine to find and print three other poems about friendship.

(Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation)

Quiz

Go to Week Six Quiz  . Use your cursor to click underneath each question to type your answer.  After you have completed the quiz, only save the changes to YOUR DISK!  Then print out a hard copy to submit.  When you hit the X in the upper right-hand corner to close, if it asks if you would like to save changes, click NO.

Knowledge, Comprehension)