If you want your students to do an in depth novel study for The Wednesday Wars but you don’t want to give up your weekends digging for historical context videos, designing group discussion activities, and writing critical thinking comprehension questions, you are in luck! This no-prep novel study for The Wednesday Wars does all this and more! This comprehensive week long chapter study of Ch. 1: September includes:

Teacher Instructions

• week-at-a-glance timeline
• Instructions for facilitating the cooperative learning discussion
• ANSWER KEY

Pre-reading Slides and Worksheets:

• Links to historical context videos about the people, places, and ideas of the late 1960s 
• Background knowledge of any Shakespeare works alluded to in the chapter
• Vocabulary words for the chapter
• A snapshot summary of the chapter--think of it as the Netflix snippet on an episode that gives you just enough of a framework to anticipate what is coming without giving away any of the juicy details.
• A literary analysis focus to consider while reading
• A note taking page for recording vocabulary and other big ideas

Comprehension Slides and Worksheets:

• Critical thinking comprehension and discussion questions
• A group activiity to make the discussion engaging for students
• Comprehension questions in worksheet formal just in case your students need that accountability to stay on task

Post Reading Slides and Worksheets:

• A fun, interactive group task for extension and relating to the text

This novel study for The Wednesday Wars includes PowerPoint slides, which can also be added to your Google Drive as Google Slides for Google Classroom users. There is also a PDF version of the slides. The novel study slides can be used as full lessons on their own, but there are worksheet versions of the comprehension questions as well as notetaking guides and any other supplemental materials that you might want in a B&W printed version.

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The Wednesday Wars Complete Novel Study