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How I Met Archie
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478122824
Copyright Date: 1999
Grade Level:
4
Reading Level:
P
Strategy/Skill:
Character study, Drawing conclusions, Making connections, Writer's craft
Genre:
Memoir, Realistic Fiction
Theme/Topic:
Conflict, Personal Change, Pets
Classification:
Fiction
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Book Summary
When Alice’s mother gets a job as a newspaper reporter, Mrs. Lilly comes to take care of Alice after school. But Alice doesn’t like the fact that her mom is working, and she makes things very difficult for Mrs. Lilly. Things change when Alice meets Archie, Mrs. Lilly’s pet monkey.
Features of the Book
- Six short chapters
- The theme of conflict
- Punctuation – ellipses, long dashes, parentheses
- The use of italics for emphasis
- Similes – like a very dead rat; howling like a werewolf
- Illustrations that support the text
- The slang used by Alice – no way, gross, take it easy, stink, cool
Purpose
How I Met Archie can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:
- relating ideas and events in the text to students’ experiences
- supporting interpretations with examples from the text
- interpreting and analyzing characters’ feelings, relationships, and actions
- exploring the author’s choice of language
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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