Lesson Plans for Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
Audio Length - 3:20
Day 1
Vocabulary Words of the Day
extraordinary - Beyond what is ordinary
or usual; highly exceptional; remarkable; wonderful
Page 9 - Mr. Willy Wonka is the most amazing,
the most fantastic, the most extraordinary chocolate maker the world has
ever seen!
ordinary - Of no exceptional ability, degree,
or quality; average; normal; usual
Page 14 - Not people, Charlie. Not ordinary
people, anyway.
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Read Chapters 1-3
Online Comprehension Questions
Candy Bar Favorites
Buy a bag of the Hershey's Assorted
Miniatures.
Activity 1
Have each student choose his/her favorite candy bar from the bag. Make a graph depicting
the class favorites.
Activity 2
Each student will need one of each of the following:
Hershey Milk Chocolate
Special Dark
Mr. Goodbar
Krackel
Use the miniatures and the clues below to
determine each student's favorite candy bar.
|
Hershey's
Milk Chocolate |
Special
Dark |
Mr. Goodbar |
Krackel |
| Student 1 |
? |
? |
? |
? |
| Student 2 |
? |
? |
? |
? |
| Student 3 |
? |
? |
? |
? |
| Student 4 |
? |
? |
? |
? |
Student 1 didn't like the Special Dark but
really couldn't stand Krackel.
Students 2 and 3 liked either Special Dark
or Hershey's Milk Chocolate
Student 4 liked Krackel better than
Hershey's Milk Chocolate.
Student 3 liked Special Dark less than
Krackel.
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Day 2
Vocabulary Word of the Day
absurd - Ridiculously out of place or
unreasonable; ridiculous; silly; strange; bizarre
Page 18 -
"But Grandpa,
who," cried Charlie, "who is Mr. Wonka using to do all the work in the
factory?"
"Nobody knows,
Charlie."
"But that's absurd!
Hasn't someone asked Mr. Wonka?"
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Read Chapters 4-6
Online Comprehension Questions
Design your own golden ticket.
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Day 3
Vocabulary Word of the Day rummage
Page 35 - The old man gave Charlie a sly grin,
and then he started rummaging under his pillow with one hand; and when the hand came out
again, there was an ancient leather purse clutched in the fingers.
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Read Chapters 7-9
Online Comprehension Questions
Have students make a character map for each
of the following characters:
| Willy Wonka |
owner of the chocolate factory
favorite clothes-black top hat, coat made of plum colored velvet, bottle green trousers |
| Augustus Gloop |
loves to eat
an enormously fat glutton
ate so may candy bars that he knew he would get a golden ticket |
| Charlie Bucket |
poor boy
ate 4 candy bars trying to win a golden ticket |
| Grandpa Joe |
gives grandson a dime to try to win a golden
ticket |
| Veruca Salt |
father is rich
very spoiled - gets what she
wants by screaming and demanding things from her parents |
| Mike Teavee |
watch TV with guns and pretends to fight bad
guys |
| Violet Beauregarde |
chews gum
3 month record for chewing same piece of gum
puts it behind her ear when she eats |
Use ReadWriteThink Story Map http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/index.html
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Day 4
Vocabulary Word of the Day
vital - Necessary to
the continuation of life; essential; crucial; critical
Page
37 - Nobody in the family gave a thought now to anything except the two vital problems
of trying to keep warm and trying to get enough to eat.
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Read Chapters 10-12
Online Comprehension Questions
Make character puppets.
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Day 5
Vocabulary Word of the Day
dumbfounded - as if
struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; surprised; speechless; taken aback;
flabbergasted; amazed
Page
64 - The children and their parents were too flabbergasted to speak. The were staggered.
They were dumfounded.
NOTE: Dumbfounded may be spelled without the b
- dumfounded.
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Read Chapters 13-15
Online Comprehension Questions
Make Chocolate
Balls - Chocolate Ball Recipe
What you need:
- 3 cups of semi-sweet or white chocolate chips or white chocolate
chips
- 1 can (300ml) of sweetened condensed milk
- finely chopped nuts
- cocoa powder
What to do:
- Melt chocolate chips; remove from heat.
- Stir in sweetened condensed milk.
- Chill 3 hours or until firm.
- Shape into 1 - inch (2.5cm) balls; place on wax paper-lined trays.
Chill until firm. Roll in nuts, cocoa, or dip into melted chocolate chips of a different
color.
- Chill and enjoy.
Other recipes:
- CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER BALLS
- 2 c. peanut butter
1 lb. 10X sugar
1 stick butter, melted
5 c. Rice Krispies
Mix all ingredients until well blended. Roll into small balls.
Melt 1/2 pound chunk chocolate, 1 large Hershey bar and 1/3 block paraffin over hot water.
Dip balls in chocolate. Place on waxed paper to cool.
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2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 cup sugar (I use cane sugar)
1/4 cup milk (I use condensed or whole milk)
dash salt
1 tsp. pure vanilla
1 heaping tablespoon peanut butter (optional: add more to taste and increase the oatmeal)
1 1/2 cups UNCOOKED oatmeal
Microwave the butter in a microwave-safe bowl for 15-30 seconds,
until the butter is melted. Add 1/4 cup cocoa and blend until the cocoa is dissolved into
the butter.
Add the sugar, milk and salt. Blend well.
Microwave on high for 1 minute 10 seconds to bring to a full boil.
(Should you need to microwave the batter some more, do so in 10 second increments.) You
want a full boil, but because it will continue to cook for awhile once it's removed from
the microwave, heating it too long can cause the mixture to scorch.)
Add the vanilla, peanut butter and oatmeal. Stir well. Drop by
tablespoon-full on waxed paper and allow to cool.
Makes 12 cookies.
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1/2 cup mini-chocolate chips
2/3 cup mini-marshmallows
2 cups whipped topping
1 box of graham crackers, any flavor
In a large bowl with a wooden spoon, stir together first three
ingredients. Mix well.
Scoop mixture onto a graham cracker square, sandwich with another
square. Continue making sandwiches until all of the mixture has been used up.
Put sandwiches into the freezer for approximately 1 1/2 hours, or
until frozen.
Serve frozen.
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Haystacks Recipe
2 cups (12 oz.) semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups (12 oz.) butterscotch chips (or peanut butter chips)
1/2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups chow mien noodles
Melt the chips. Mix in noodles and nuts until coated well. Drop by
teaspoon onto wax paper. Put into refrigerator until set.
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Day 6
Vocabulary Word of the Day
mischievous - Playful in a naughty or teasing
way; ill-behaved; naughty
Page 71 - I must warn you, though,
that they are rather mischievous. They like jokes.
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Read Chapters 16-18
Online Comprehension Questions
Make boat.
By Cheryl Ball
from Hands On Crafts |
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Main supplies:
- Delta Ceramcoat® acrylic paint
– white, lime green, fuchsia, red
- Delta Ceramcoat® Sparkle Glaze
- Delta Sobo® glue
- Forster® Woodsies™ large
circles and craft sticks
- Ribbon and cellophane
Basics supplies:
- Paintbrushes - #12 flat, #3 round
- Sand paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
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| Instructions: Swirl Candy Favor
1. Lightly sand a wood circle until smooth.
2. Paint the circle lime green. Let dry. Apply a second coat if needed.
3. Using the round paint brush paint a white swirl on the wood circle. Start on the
outside edge and paint the swirl to the center of the circle. Let dry. Apply a coat of
sparkle glaze to entire surface of circle. Let dry.
4. Glue a craft stick to the back of the circle. Cut a 6” length of ribbon and glue
to the top of the pop to form a loop hanger.
5. Wrap a piece of cellophane around the candy favor, cutting a small hole in the top of
the cellophane to pull the hanger through. Tie with a ribbon at the base of the candy on
the stick.
Peppermint Candy Favor
1. Lightly sand a wood circle until smooth.
2. Paint the circle white. Let dry. Apply a second coat if needed. Referring to the photo,
use a pencil to lightly draw lines from the center of the circle forming 8 sections. Paint
four of the sections red.
3. Using the round brush and fuchsia paint, make squiggly lines in the center of the white
sections and add a dot to the center of the circle. Apply a coat of sparkle glaze to
entire surface of circle. Let dry.
4. Glue a craft stick to the back of the circle. Cut a 6” length of ribbon and glue
to the top of the pop to form a loop hanger.
5. Wrap a piece of cellophane around the candy favor, cutting a small hole in the top of
the cellophane to pull the hanger through. Tie with a ribbon at the base of the candy on
the stick. |
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Day 7
Vocabulary Word of the Day
ludicrous -
Laughable or hilarious because of obvious silliness; ridiculous; foolish; preposterous;
outrageous
Page
100 -
She chewed in the church and on the bus
It really was quite ludicrous!
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Read Chapters 19-21
Online Comprehension Questions
| Yummy
Necklace 
You need:
--Fruit Loops Cereal
--Licorice Whips
--Confectioner's Sugar
--Milk
--Wax Paper
Instructions:
To make the medallion: Add a few drops of milk to 3
tablespoons of confectioner's sugar. Mix. Add more milk, drop by drop, until you have a
thick, smooth paste. Plop a large spoonful of this paste onto wax paper. Use the back of a
spoon to press out evenly (approx. 1/4" thick). Arrange Fruit Loops cereal on top of
paste, pressing down slightly. Poke through the center of one of the loops near the edge.
Allow paste to harden. |
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Day 8
Vocabulary Word of the Day
mound - A raised pile; a heap; stack
Page 110 - On the table, there were mounds and
mounds of walnuts, and the squirrels were all working away like mad, shelling the
walnuts at a tremendous speed.
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Read Chapters 22-24
Online Comprehension Questions
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Worksheet - Here's the Scoop (Creative
Writing and Predicting)
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Day 9
Vocabulary Word of the Day
trod - To press beneath the feet; trample; crushed;
squashed; flattened
Page 134 - We can't send him back to school
like this! He'll get trod upon! He'll get squashed!
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Read Chapters 25-27
Online Comprehension Questions
Make a plot diagram sequencing the events
that took place in the chocolate factory. Use ReadWriteThink http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/plot-diagram/
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Day 10
Vocabulary Word of the Day
hover - To remain
floating, hanging or fluttering in the air
Page
150 - The great glass elevator was now hovering high over the town.
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Read Chapters 28-30
Online Comprehension Questions
Worksheet - Creative Choices
Penguin's Young Readers Fact Sheets (Quiz over the book - Includes matching characters to
drawings, T/F, writing a sentence about a scene from the story, & matching the people
to quotes
Take AR Test
Making Fudge in a Ziploc Bag http://parentingteens.about.com/library/sp/nkidscookt45.htm
Make Fudge in a Ziploc Bag
Ingredients
- 3 oz pkg of cream cheese
- 1 lb box of powdered sugar
- 2 packets of cocoa mix or 1/2 cup of cocoa
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 2 1 gal zip lock storage bags
Place all ingredients in one of the zip lock bags, close
and put it in the next zip lock bag. Give everyone a turn at squishing the bags to mix.
Mix until smooth... Enjoy!
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