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Boy and Going Solo

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Information

• Published by:
  • Penguin, 1992, USA.
• Contains:
  • Boy - Tales of Childhood
  • Going Solo

Fun Stuff

• Boy - Tales of Childhood Trivia Quiz

Teacher Resources

• Boy - Tales of Childhood
  • Unit Lesson Plan
    • Includes unit of instruction for 20 lessons, 5 lesson plans, condensed first lesson, autobiographical scaffold, and comparative question
  • "Goat's Tobacco" Activities
    • Includes a number of story analysis exercises pertaining to the "Goat's Tobacco" incident
  • Book Review & Activity
    • Fun activity to help improve students’ ability to write with descriptive details that allow the reader to visualize in their head.
  • Vague Pronouns
    • Students read and analyze a mentor text (an excerpt from Boy - Tales of Childhood), write their own narrative vignette, and analyze their use of pronouns in their vignette.
• Going Solo
  • Reading Quiz
    • Online reading quiz with questions from the book

Cover Illustrations

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Penguin, 1992 [Buy this Book]

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Puffin, 2004

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