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The following are the worksheets that you will be doing during this novel study. The due dates for each group of worksheets

have been provided. Dates are subject to change. All answers must be in full

sentences using correct punctuation in the space provided or on the back of the

sheets. The book has already been downloaded on my website, under A Bridge to Terabithia, to help you in

answering the worksheet questions.

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Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

Week One (Jan 8-12)

Worksheets (3 of them)

Worksheet One

Go to:

http://www.ulster.net/~petersne/kpat.html

Read the information about the author on this page and answer the following questions:

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?

http://www.ulster.net/~petersne/kpat.html

Worksheet Two

Chapter One Questions

1. Why does Jesse sneak out of bed?

2. What are Jesse's sisters' names?

3. Why does Jesse get up so early in the morning?

4. What is the name of Jesse's cow?

5. What is the author telling us about Jesse's relationship

with his mother in this chapter?

6. What does this chapter say about Jesse's dad?

7. Where does Jesse go to school?

8. What is Jesse's big ambition?

9. Jesse is afraid of being called a 'bragger', why?

10. What happens at the end of this chapter that will

change Jesse's life forever?

Worksheet Three

Chapter Two Questions

1. What did Jesse and his little sisters have for dinner?

2. What does 'pudgy' mean?

3. What did Jesse like to draw?

4. What kind of drawing is this?

5. Why can't Jesse show his drawings to his dad?

6. Describe Miss Edmunds?

7. What does Jesse think of Miss Edmunds? Provide some

textual examples from the novel. Remember to put

quotes in inverted commas.

8. The author mentions five songs in this chapter. What are

they? What do they tell us about the era this novel was

written in?

9. This chapter uses some onomatopoeic text. What is it and

what does it mean?

10. Who and what is Leslie Burke?



Week Two (Jan 16-Jan 19)


All answers, unless directed, must be in full sentences using

correct punctuation.

Worksheet One

Chapter Three Questions

1. Who is Mr Turner?

2. Who is Mrs Myers?

3. What year is Jesse in at Lark Creek Elementary School?

4. What are the names Jesse is thinking of using for his book

of drawings?

5. Who is Gary Fulcher?

6. Why didn't Gary Fulcher want Leslie to run against the

boys?

7. Why did Jesse sit next to May Belle on the bus on the way

home?

8. What does Jesse mean when he thinks that Leslie's

running reminds him of 'wild ducks in the autumn'?

Worksheet Two

Chapter Four Questions

1. Why did running cease to be fun for Jesse?

2. What descriptions of Miss Edmunds are given in this

chapter? Use textual evidence to support your answer.

Remember if you quote straight from the text you must

use quotation marks.

3. What does Jesse mean when he calls himself a 'yellow-

bellied sapsucker'?

4. What does the responder (you) find out about Leslie's

family in this chapter?

5. What is Leslie Burke's hobby?

6. Why doesn't Leslie have a television?

7. What does the author quote from the Bible in this chapter

and why?

8. Who names the secret place Terabithia and why?

Worksheet Three

Chapter Five Questions

1. Who is Janice Avery?

2. What kind of meeting do Jesse and Leslie have once they

get to Terabithia?

3. Write a 50 word abstract over chapter 5.

Worksheet Four

Chapter Six Questions

1. Jesse gets very angry at the beginning of this chapter.

What makes him angry and why?

2. What does May Belle want for Christmas?

3. Who and what is Prince Terrien?

Text Structure

Discuss the development of Jesse and Leslie's friendship so far. List using sequence of events, how it has developed in terms of the plot (This happened, then this happened...) in a mind-map and then write a story, poem or song about how it has affected both Jesse and Leslie.



Week Three (Jan 22-Jan26)




Worksheet One

This novel has two settings.

Describe each setting from the descriptions given in the novel. Try to find at least 6 different descriptions for each and place them in the columns. Make sure you write the page numbers

next to each description.

Lark Creek Terabithia

Worksheet Two

Chapter 7-10 Questions

1. What is the famous painting mentioned in this chapter?

2. What is 'The Golden Room'?

3. Is there a difference between the way Leslie feels about

her father and the way Jesse feels about his father?

Compare and contrast using a venn diagram and then

write a paragraph over it.



Week Four (Jan 29-Feb 2)




Worksheet One

Provide a summary of Chapter 11.

Provide a 50 word abstract write up and illustration over this chapter.

Worksheet Two

Swiss psychiatrist, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has identified that people go through five stages of grief when they lose someone close to them.

The five stages of grief are:

DENIAL AND ISOLATION - "NO, NOT ME, IT CANNOT BE TRUE."

ANGER - "WHY ME.".

BARGAINING - "YES ME ... BUT"

DEPRESSION - "YES ME."

ACCEPTANCE - "IT'S OKAY."

consequenceswho is affected and how?

Jess loses LeslieHow does Jesse cope?

Examine Chapters 11-14 and identify if Jess goes through some, or all of these stages of grief and whether he creates any specific coping (how to handle it) strategies to help him come to terms with losing his best friend. Write your response in a 50 word abstract

Worksheet Three

Chapters 11-14 Questions

1. The title of this novel is significant. Why? What happens

in these final chapters that introduces the idea of the

need for a bridge to Terabithia?

2. The word bridge has a metaphorical meaning in this

novel. What are some of the things people do with

bridges that are metaphors for the way they deal with

issues and events in their lives?

Worksheet Four

Katherine Paterson wrote this story because her son, David, lost his best friend, Lisa Hill, when she was struck by lightening. When Paterson wrote the book and put the dedication in it her son asked her to add Lisa Hill's name to the dedication. How does this knowledge help you to understand the context of this book? Does it make the book seem more real to you? Are the experiences more genuine. Does it make

the emotions of the novel more real? Please answer in a 50 word abstract.

Write a 50 abstract here, putting yourself in Jesse's position. Write about what you would be feeling if you were Jesse one day after the accident and then, using the work you did on Jesse and his coping with grief through the five stages of grief process, write what you might be feeling one year after the accident.

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