Lesson Plans for Shiloh

Day 1

Vocabulary Word of the Day

grovel - to creep face down, slither, squirm

Page 4 - Dog goes down on his stomach, groveling about in the grass.

abandoned - deserted, empty, no one's there

Page 14 - Dad's crossing the bridge by the old abandoned gristmill, turning at the boarded-up school, and for the first time I can feel Shiloh's body begin to shake.            

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Read Chapters 1-2

Answer Comprehension Questions

Activity - Make dog book mark.

Activity - Setting - West Virginia Map Activity http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/shiloh/west_virginia.htm

Portals pages 8-9 Making Compound Words

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Day 2

Vocabulary Word of the Day

sickle - tool with crescent-shaped blade for cutting grass and weeds

Page 24 - He's got a big old sickle; is cutting weeds along his side of the road.

feeble - frail, puny, sickly, weak

Page 29 - It isn't that we're rock-poor; trouble is that Grandma Preston's got real feeble, and she's being cared for by Dad's sister over in Clarksburg.

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Read Chapters 3-4

Answer Comprehension Questions

Portals pages 13-14 Classifying Words

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Day 3

Vocabulary Word of the Day

jowls - cheeks, jaws

commence - to begin, to start, initiate

Page 41 - The only sound you can hear is the swishing of Shiloh's tail, hitting the fence, the soft pad of his paws as he leaps up in the air in sheer, pure happiness; the sloppy slap of his jowls together as he gobbles down the supper I've brought him and then he commences to slobber love all over me as well.

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Read Chapters 5-6

Answer Comprehension Questions

Portals page 15 - Antonyms & pages 16-17 - Special Meanings

Activity - Dog Bank http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/shiloh/bank.htm

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Day 4

Vocabulary Words of the Day

frankfurter - hot dog

Page 62 - I give him all the change I got, and he lets me have a big hunk of cheese, moldy on one side, a carton of sour cream, and a half a package of frankfurters that someone opened and bought five of.

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Read Chapters 7-8

Answer Comprehension Questions

Portals page 22 - Sequencing Events & pages 19-20 (orally) where when how

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Day 5

Vocabulary Word of the Day

suspicions - The act of suspecting something, especially something wrong, on little evidence or without proof; notion, idea, guess

Page 73 - "Well, I had my suspicions before, but it was the squash that did it."

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Read Chapters 9-10

Answer Comprehension Questions

Portals page 23 - Evaluating What You Read & page 25 Synonyms

Activity - http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/christmas.html

  Make dog magnets.

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Day 6

Vocabulary Words of the Day

antibiotics - infection-fighting drugs

Page 95 - But I got him sewn back up and full of antibiotics.

turpentine - a solvent derived from the sap of pine trees and used as a paint thinner and a cleaning fluid

Page 99 - Takes a little dab of turpentine and rubs it on the tick's rear end, and the tick backs out of Shiloh's skin mighty quick.

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Read Chapters 11-12

Answer Comprehension Questions

Portals page 26 - Cause & Effect & pages 27-28 - Correct Meanings

Activity

Online Activity - Truth or Lies (Vote on whether Marty should tell Judd the truth. http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/shiloh/truth.htm)

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Day 7

Vocabulary Word of the Day

property - something owned; a possession.

Page 110 - Folks ain't that fond of Judd, and most of 'em likes my dad, but when it comes to taking a man's property, I figure they'll side with Judd.

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Read Chapters 13-14

Answer Comprehension Questions

Activity - Venn Diagram - Illustrating differences and similarities between Judd and Marty

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Day 8

Vocabulary Word of the Day

omission - something neglected or left undone

Page 123 - If I tell Ma and Dad everything except about the deer, that's lying by omission.

jubilation - happiness, delight, joyfulness

Page 125 - "Heeeow!" I go again, out of joy and jubilation, the way they do in church.

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Read Chapters 15

Answer Comprehension Questions

Activity

Make Oreo cookie dog. http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/crafts/edible.htm

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