Missing May: Book Club Novel Guide

This classroom-tested Book Club Novel Guide for Missing May by Cynthia Rylant contains a complete thematic unit that focuses on an excellent novel. The guide elaborates on the novel's major themes with related readings, writing activities, and unit projects. An overview of the Book Club program explains how students engage with literature and with each other through the program's unique use of small-group discussions. Detailed daily lesson plans support instruction in comprehension strategies, literary analysis, language conventions, and composition. Actual samples of student work show what you can expect your own students to achieve. Innovative blackline masters support writing, composition, critical thinking, and assessment.