Learning Expectations:

Students will:

• delight in reading and become life-long readers.

• develop an awareness of how a novel is constructed.

• develop their skills in reading, writing, listening and oral communication.

• develop their skills in communicating and working in a group.

• develop self-understanding, social awareness and compassion.

• be introduced to the works of James Ramsay Ullman.

• be introduced to reading about events in another country.

Teacher Notes Include:

• Learning Expectations

• Author Biography

• Story Summary

• Teacher Suggestions

• Vocabulary

• Student Evaluation Sheet

• Reading Journal

Chapter Questions

• Booklet Cover

• Chapter questions from one to nineteen.

• Answer Key

Creative Writing Activities

Half page activity cards. Students can read and write answers in a workbook.

1. Pretend you are a reporter.

2. Prepare a list for an overnight in the mountains.

3. Write a journal entry when Rudi is alone.

4. Write a speech about prejudice.

5. Look ten years into the future and write a story about what Rudi is doing.

6. Write an opinion piece on the title for the book.

7. Write three diary entries, pretending you are Rudi.

8. Write a letter to the author sharing your thoughts on the novel.

9. Write a short script on your favorite scene.

10. Write a story based on present terms.

Integrated Studies Activities

Half card activity pages.

1. Create a new book cover.

2. Make a diorama to show the setting of the novel.

3. Make a collage describing the book.

4. Write a missing person bulletin.

5. Make a time line of events.

6. Draw a map of the events.

7. Describe your feelings of incidents.

8. Draw a brochure of Switzerland.

9. Design a mobile.

Literary Studies Activities

1. List events and show how they changed Rudi’s character.

2. Categorize books.

3. Write similes.

4. Find three examples of conflict.

5. Use descriptive adjectives.

6. Explain and give examples of fear.

7. Templates:

   1. Use a Venn diagram.

   2. Creating a storyboard.

Word Study Activities

1. Alphabetical Order

2. Find word meanings.

3. Design a word search.

4. Writing antonyms for words.

5. Unscramble words by syllables to make new words.

6. Unscramble 10 vocabulary words.

7. Write homonyms for words.

Grammar Activities

1. Give the tense to the underlined verb.

2. Rewrite sentences using correct capitalization and punctuation.

3. Coping sentences, filling in the blanks with himself, herself or themselves.

4. Write the comparative and superlative forms of the following adjectives.

5. Add "ed" and "ing" to the following words.

6. Write the plural of words.

Research Activities

1. Prepare a research report on an aspect of Switzerland.

2. Write a research report on the sport of mountain climbing.

3. Prepare a research report on the alps.

4. Prepare a report on avalanches.

5. Prepare a research report on Sir Edmund Hillary.

6. Write a report on a Matterhorn.

7. Choose a mountain or hill in your area and write a report.

Novel Extension Activities

1. Make a large web of the novels characters and themes.

2. Interview other students views on the novel.

3. Compare the lifestyles of the main characters to yours.

4. Complete – Something in the novel I found .....

5. List 3 choices Rudi made in the novel.

6. Write a 5W’s poem.

7. Write out the title of the novel decoratively.

8. Write a paragraph explaining why you will or won’t remember this novel a year from now.

9. Select a character from the novel who you believe is a hero, and share why they deserve a medal.