Bridge+to+Terabithia

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This novel has been awarded prestigious awards including:

//ALA Notable Children's Books 1977// //School Library Journal Best Book of 1977// //Newbery Medal 1978// //Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1978// //Janusz Korczak Medal (Poland) 1981// //Silver Pencil Award (Netherlands) 1981// //Le Grand Prix des Jeunes Lecturs (France), 1986// //Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 1986// media type="custom" key="8397414"

Chapter One
Summary: After Jess heard his dad leave for work he put on his overalls not his shirt because he would be too hot after his run. Jesse was practicing to be the fastest runner in grade 5. He has two older sisters Ellie and Brenda and his 6 year old sister, May Belle, worships him, he also has a younger sister other than May Belle, Joyce Ann. When Jess reaches the cow field, he shouts "Bang!" he sprints around the field. When he finished his run, he heads back home where he finds his older sisters complaining about his smell. After he is forced to wash, Brenda and Ellie go out to the shops to buy school clothes, leaving Jess and his mum to do the chores. Jesse goes to Lark Creek Elementary.

Travel Tracer: Jess wakes up in his little house and is going to go for a run into the yard. He always starts his run at the northwest end of the field.Jess arrived back home jumping over the scrap heap and the fence and then he arrived with his little sister May Belle making fun of him but he hit her on the head. When Jess got inside he jumped down on the wooden bench and his mother gave him breakfast.

Vocabulary Enricher: Despised- To feel disrespect for Grit-Particals of stone or sand Shebang- The whole lot, or a matter or business Cuds- Food that cattle eats and then it comes back up into their mouths to chew again Primly-Formal and precise in everyway Vinyl- A kind of plastic

Literary Luminary: 'His body was begging him to quit, but Jess pushed it on. He had to let that puny chest of his know who was boss.' Page 5. This is when his family finds out about him running in the mornings. His older sister complain a lot about his smell. This part made me think about what it would be like to live in a small country town that was in drought.

Connector: Every thing in Bridge To Terabithia could be real. They speak like real kids and not like a grown up or robots. Also I know that all kids love to run so to me Jess dosen't sound like a weirdo when he runs he is just another kid having fun.



Chapter Two
Summary Connector: When he firsts meets Leslie and he dosen't know if she's a boy or a girl sounds very normally. We all find ourselves walking down the street and sombody catches your eye and you dont' know if their a boy or a girl.
 * May Belle hates Joyce Ann
 * Jess loves to draw, he drew the way people drink whisky and he likes to draw unusual animals
 * Jess secretly loves Miss Edmunds
 * Rivals with Wayne Pettis and Gary Fulcher
 * Meets Leslie Burke

Vocabulary Enricher: Goggle-eyed: Tremble, shake

Travel Tracer Chapter two is set in Jesse's home. He practices his running in the cow field in his farm.

Chapter Three
Travel Tracer: Chapter 3 begins in Jess' School, Lark Creek Elementary. He is in Mrs Myers fifth grade class. They compete in running races in the Lower Field of the playground.

Connector: When the boys don't what Leslie to race with them you can tell they don't think girls can run as fast as them because they didn't what her to race. Lots of boys say girls aren't as fast as them but I think whatever a boy can do a girl can do too.

Jess gets really defensive when brenda calls Leslie his girlfriend. Most big sisters would tease their little brother about playing with a girl by saying they have a girlfriend and mostly their replie is just like Jesses, defensive.

Vocabulary Enricher:

Summary: Jess had been practising all summer for this day. The day he would be the fastest kid in 5th grade. The starter says 'BANG'. He feels someone sneeking up on. He reaches the finish line. Only to be beten by a girl. Leslie Burke.

Chapter Four
Conector: Jess and Leslie don't sound weird when they make Terabithia. Lots of kids make secerets worlds or kingdoms were they are the rulers and I think that swinging on a rope is a good way to enter Terabithia.

Vocabulary Enricher: Zing: Move quickly Sapsucker: An American woodpecker that pecks rows of holes in trees and comes back to get insects and sap Consolidated: Make or become stronger ir more solid Rumpus: Uproar or brawl

Summary: Jess and Leslie went to the rope swing that was just behind Leslie's house. They swung on it for a while and then went over into the woods. This is where Terebithia began.

Travel Tracer Chapter four is set in Lark Creek Elementary and in Terabithia.

Chapter Five
Connector: Janice is like every school bully, mean and she is a bully because she has power because she is bigger than everybody. She steals things like most school bullies and nobody really likes her apart from her friends who help her in her nasty bullying.

Vocabulary Enricher: dadgum- used as an euphemisim to express anger, irritation, surprize ect. dang- same as dadgum solemnly- not smiling or cheerful formal dignified

Literary Luminary: "You gotta kill Janice Avery. Kill her, Kill her, Kill her!" Page 54 I think this is a powerful statement made by May Belle because she emphisias the way she wants revenge on Janice Avery because Janice stole her that her father brought her and Jess wants to get Janice back with a plan.

Travel Tracer Chapter five was set in Lark Creek Elementary, Terabithia and on the school bus.

**﻿Chapter Six**
Jess gets really defensive when Brenda calls Leslie his girlfriend. Most big sisters would tease their little brother about playing with a girl by saying they have a girlfriend and mostly their reply is just like Jesse's, defensive.
 * Connector:**

Near the end of chapter 6, it says "Leslie must have been watching for him because as soon as he started across the the yard, he could see her running out of the old Perkins' place, the puppy half tripping her as it chased circles around her. This reminds me of a dog I know called Max because whenever we visit their house, Max gets so excited he does exactly what Prince Terrien did.

Vocabulary Enricher: consolidated- to combine into a single word surplus- amount beyond that needed excess foundling- deserted child of unknown parent sprawling- to sit, lie or fall with arms and legs spread loosley speculation- to form opinios without having any definite proof wicker- thin canes or twigs woven together splurged- spent money freely stronghold- a fortified place parapets- a low wall along the edge of a balcony

Discussion Director: What is a twinkie? @ a twinkie is a sponge roll filled with cream Who is Mr Turner? @ the principal Who is the boy that all the year seven girls like? @ Willard Hughes Why didn't they tell on Janice for smoking @ They knew she would bash them up afterwards

Literary Luminary: Leslie liked to make up stories about giants that threatened the peace of Teribithia, the only real giant was Janice Avery.

"Watch it," Jess cautioned. "It sprays worse 'n' a water pistol." I picked this sentence because it was humerous.

Chapter Seven
Discussion Director: Why couldn't Mrs Burke help repair the old Perkin's Place? @ she was in the middle of writing a book Were Leslie and Jess happy that they gave in about the colour of the Living Room? @ Yes, they ended up painting it gold which they thought made it look better than the colour they wanted which originally was blue. Why was Janice Avery crying in the girls bathroom? @Her father beats her but he did it so badly that day that she told her friends but instead of keeping a secret, they told everyone.

Connector: " I told Janice about not having a tv and everyone laughing. I told her I understood what it was like to have everyone think I was weird." Some people may feel as if they are pressured by their peers to get something, and if they can't they often feel sad or depressed In Chapter Seven, Leslie and her Dad, Bill, started fixing up their house. We are having renovations at the moment, so there is a connection. Lots of people renovate their houses to make them look nicer. This is what Leslie and Bill did.

"Who do we thank?" He whispered. The question flickered across her face. "O God," she began. She was more at home with magic than religion. "O Spirits of the Grove." This part was chosen because the author uses a real religion not a made up religion that is to do with Terabithia.

He half expected to see her come through flattened straight out like the coyote on 'Road Runner.' This part was picked because the author uses a real cartoon, unlike other books, they make them up.

Summary: Jess and Leslie help Bill (Leslies dad) renevate the house.They painted the living room gold.Jess and Leslie go down to Teribithia to fight invaders and Teribithia was free again.Janice Avery was crying in the bathroom. Is it because of the prank they played on her? No it is because she had told her friends that her father beats her up.

Vocabulary Enricher: Twinkies- a cake finger that is filled with cream Council- a group of people chosen or elected to orgenise or discusssomethhing especialy those elected to orgenise the affairs of a town or government area regected- to be turned away regacide- the murder of one in the royal family consolidated- to make more secure trio- a group of three things squenched- to scrunch up your face

Chapter Eight
Summary: It was Easter, torrents poured heavily. This was the first time in many years that the creek bed actually filled up. Ellie and Brenda were fighting over what they were going to wear for church. Mrs Aarons was upset about being poor and she scraped as much money as she could get together to dress them up. Leslie has never gone to church and asks Jess if she can come along. Mrs Aarons worries that Leslie will dress inappropiately. Leslie talks on about how good church is but remarks that she doesn't believe in the belief. May Belle is shocked and says if Leslie doesn't believe in God, she will go to the underworld when she dies.

Connector: All there life so far is very real, even Janice Averies dad bashing her. Terabithia is the only place where all the things are not real because it is only there imagination.

Disscusion Director 1. Why did Jess's family only go to church on Easter? @ Their mother had had an argument with the minister. 2. What did Jess think of church? @ He thought it was boring. 3. What did leslie think of church? @ She found it really interesting.

Chapter Nine
Vocabulary Enricher Element - Each of the parts that make a whole thing Broadcast - A programme or add that is sent to a radio or TV Nipping - Pinch or bite quickly Wheedling- to coax a person into doing something Unison- the state of acting together at one time LiIterary lumanairy it wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie he was afraid to go it was that he minded being afraid. it was as though he had been made with a great picece missing. lord it would have been better to be born without a arm then to go threw life with no guts. This is an example of the grass is greener on the other side. if jess had no arms he couldn't catch a ball play sport or do the YMCA, the Macerina or the chicken dance properly.

Chapter Ten
Travel Tracer:

Leslie died in the creek when the rope swing to Terrabithia broke. Jess ran out of his house with mixed emotions of anger, hatred and sadness. His dad rode out onto the main road in his U-Haul and picked up Jess and rode home. Jess and his father arrive at their house. Jess walk to his bedroom and falls asleep. Jess wakes up and walks down to the kitchen. Jess eats pancakes with his family.

Connector Leslie died and Jess didn't believe it: If you lose a relative or a pet you don't want to know it even if know it's true.

**Chapter Eleven**
Summariser: Jess didn't think Leslie DIED. It seemed like a dream and he was angrey at her for leaving him alone. He went to the river and threw away the only thing left he had of Leslie, the paper and paints. Then he went to the old Perkins place to pay his respects to her family and he discovered they had her body creamated. This upset him at the thought he would never see her again dead or alive. Now his family are being really nice to him. He get pancakes for breakfast and PT is now allowed to sleep with him.

Travel Tracer:
Jess and his family walk across the fields to get to the Old Perkins place. Jess walked into the golden room where all of Leslie's friends and family were. Jess and his family walked back across the fields to their house. Jess was filled with tears as he ran across the fields to get back to their house. Jess ran to his bedroom. Jess ran out to the stream near the entrance to Terrabithia. Bill gave Jess P.T. (Prince Terrien) Jess slept with P.T. (Prince Terrien)

Chapter Thirteen
Disscussion Director How would you feel if your friend died? Would you react in the same way Jess did? How do you (Jess) feel about Leslie being cremated? How would you honor Leslie's death. Do you think it was wise of May Belle to follow Jess? Do you think it was a natural reaction what Jess did when Leslie died?

Travel Tracer: Jess woke up. Jess locked Prince Terrien in the shed Jess milked Miss Bessie Jess let Prince Terrien out of the shede Jess walked to the stream. Jess started making a bridge Jess walked to the castle stronghold

Discussion Director Who did PT's whimpering remind Jess of? @ May Belle Who was it that got stuck on the bridge? @ May Belle What did Jess make the funeral Wreath out of? @ Pine, wet string and flowers

Vocabulary Enricher: Gradually: happening or changing slowly over a long period of time. Constricting:to squeeze tightly. Assuring: you say something is true.