Short Story Guide: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Interactive

This is a short story guide for the short story titled "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving," by Louisa May Alcott. There are five sections, so the guide is designed to be completed in a week.

In this story the Bassett family is preparing for Thanksgiving when they get a message that Mrs. Bassett's mother is failing fast. Mr. and Mrs. Bassett must go quickly, so they leave the farm and home in charge of their eldest boy and girl.

The guide includes:

• vocabulary exercises
• discussion questions
• reading activities -- Students will: play a game of telephone, write a list, fill in a chart (compare/contrast), fill in a 5-elements of a short story chart, and complete a review crossword puzzle. Students will learn about: the author, Thanksgiving facts, an antonym, mood, similes, alliteration, the five elements of a short story, odd grammar, allusion, sequence, and theme.
• a crossword puzzle
• writing activities
• life applications
• Bible
• web links
• post reading activities that can be used as an assessment
• a complete Answer Key

This is an interactive guide that enables parents/teachers to facilitate an oral discussion of the story, but it only provides space for one student to complete the fill-in-the-blank activities. If you are interested in using the guide with more than one student, check out the options:

• Reproducibles -- they contain all of the fill-in-the-blank types of activities:

Short Story Guide: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Reproducibles

• Workbook format -- space is provided for students to write all of the answers:

Short Story Guide: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Workbook

NOTES:

1) The content of the guide in interactive format and in workbook format is the same; the only difference is spacing.

2) The grades listed are 3rd through 8th, but the story is able to be enjoyed by all ages.