Death Coming Up the Hill : A Vietnam War Novel Workbook
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Grade Levels
7th - 12th, Homeschool
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRL.7.1
CCSSRL.7.2
CCSSRL.7.3
CCSSRL.7.5
CCSSRL.7.6
Formats Included
- PDF
Pages
20 pages
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Description
This hands-on, engaging workbook acts as a strong supplement to the novel Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe. It is a fantastic resource for engaging students with historical literature and poetry and focuses on both Bloom's Taxonomy and Common Core Standards. Students will come away from the unit with a strong knowledge base of the Vietnam War, the late 1960s, haiku poetry, research sources, and informative texts.
The workbook includes:
- A cover page
- Pre-reading research activity regarding the year 1968
- Comprehension questions for the whole novel (including answer key)
- Connection of the novel to an article from The Washington Post
- Creative and artistic activities connected to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. (including a "rubbing" and a reflective drawing
- A creative and informative TV news report on an actual 1960s event
- A haiku poetry writing activity
- Appealing graphics and fonts
Perfect for grades 7-12!
Total Pages
20 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
2 Weeks
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.7.1
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSSRL.7.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSSRL.7.3
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
CCSSRL.7.5
Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
CCSSRL.7.6
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
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