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Title:
| Literature: "A Day No Pigs Would Die" by Robert Newton Peck |
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Description:
| These sites are about "A Day No Pigs Would Die" by Robert Newton Peck. Includes biographies on the author, book summaries, discussion questions, suggested activities, and online quizzes. There is also a link to an eThemes Resource on Shakers. |
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Grade Level:
| 6, 7, 8 |
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Resource Links:
| Author's Official Site
Visit the author's official site, which includes news, brief biography information, and the author's works.
Teacher Cyberguide
This unit includes six activities and covers different aspects of the book, such as Vermont history, shakers, baseball, and pigs. Some links in the project are broken and some might lead to sites a teacher might not want to share with students, such as the commercial sites.
Literature Units
Learn vocabulary words, read analyses, and answer the questions for the different chapters.
Quia I
Try these four interactive games to help learn vocabulary words from the book.
Quia II
These are four more games on different vocabulary words from the book.
Lesson Plan
The lesson plan includes an author biography, historical background and many discussion questions.
Pink Monkey
The notes include analysis of each chapters, overall characters, themes and some study questions.
Sparknotes
Read summaries for each of the chapters of "A Day No Pigs Would Die." Choose a different chapter by using the drop-down menu at the bottom. NOTE: This site includes ads.
Unit Plan
This site includes various resources in a unit plan for the book "A Day No Pigs Would Die."
Pop Quiz
This pop quiz has 10 questions.
Global Book Club
This site has three suggested activities.
eThemes Resource: Shakers
Learn about the religious group called the Shakers who came from England to the U.S. in the late 1700s. View many photographs of former Shaker villages that reveal clues about their daily life. Includes historical and biographical information about this religious group and its members. There are also images of furniture and crafts made by Shakers.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 1.9, 1.10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 2, 6
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