Jackaroo by Cynthia Voight

  Literature Guide Requirements:
v     In folder (the more creative, the more points)
v     Design your own cover (can not be the book cover in any form)
v     You must follow the format below.  You may have two entries to a page maximum.  Failure to follow the exact format below will be a loss of major points. The guide must be typed (all pages).  You may have more than one chapter per page as long as it is easy to see where one chapter leaves off and another begins.
v     Summaries do not have to be very long but long enough to cover key action. (Less than 3 sentences)
v     Quotes must be quotes that will help you with your essay, quotes that follow the theme: poor verses the wealthy, nobles; justice verses injustice; good verses evil; kindness verses cruelty; and others.  At least 2 per chapter.
v     You must have at least 2 words “Key Words to Remember” or “Words to Ponder” per chapter even if you know what they mean.  Look for words that are from that time period or strong words that will help you with the later essay.
v     The guide must be turned in on time: ________________ (due date) with this instruction sheet.
Jackaroo by Cynthia Voight  Grading Rubric
 
In folder and in order (10 points): _________
Proper title with author and labeled (10 points): _________
Neat (10 points): ___________
 
Ch 1-27 (12 points each Chapter)
Title __________
Summary ______
Quotes x 2 (with page numbers and proper format) ___________
Words to Ponder x 2 (with page numbers and proper format) __________ 
 
Extra Credit for Creativity: _____________
 
Total : _____________ / 354
 
Sample:
Chapter 1  “ Doling Rooms” (Monotype Corsiva size 14)
(You must create your own title for each chapter since the author did not.  This will help you quickly remember the story line for the chapter.)
 
Summary: ( There is no requirement other than being 2 sentences and as much information as you need to remember the main action of the chapter.)
Gwen and Tad, the middle class Innkeeper’s children, wait among the poor to take hand outs for Old Meg, who was too old to make the trip in the dead of winter.  They meet an old woman and Gwen offers to help her home, which annoys Tad, the spoiled younger brother.
 
Quotes: (These need to be passages from the story that best describe the main characters, the conditions they live in, and the emotions or events as they affect them.  As well as any themes present in the novel.  2 per chapter )
Page #4    “Men did not come to the Doling Room.  The shame would be too great for a man to carry.  So the women carried it….”
Page #
 
New words to ponder: (Need at least 2 per chapter)
1.) doling (page 4): handing out food and/ or provisions to the poor.
 
 

Key Terms/ Words to Ponder for Jackaroo

Ch 1 pg. 9 vehemently/ pummeled

Ch 2 pg 19 contagion/ wracked

Ch 3 pg. 27/ 32 glades/ brutes

Ch 4 pg. 35 inevitable/ acrid

Ch 5 pg. 51/ 53 petulant/ rippling

Ch 6 pg. 61/61 shrew/ twinge

Ch 7 pg. 69/ 72 barracks/ spate

Ch 8 pg. 75/ 77 hovel/ hunkered

Ch 9 pg. 84/ 85 incoherently/ groping

Ch 10 pg. 99/ 110 expanse/ peculiarly

Ch 11 pg. 112/115 emblazoned/ undulated

Ch 12 pg 124 trekked/ dell

Ch 13 pg 135/ 140 chemise/ sulky

Ch 14 pg 143/ 150 prodded/ allayed

Ch 15 pg 154/ 156 threadbare/ sheathed

Ch 16 pg 160/ 161 fortnight/ Montebanks

Ch 17 pg 168/ 169 fickle/ gallows

Ch 18 pg 178/ 182 skeins/ rove

Ch 19 pg 194/ 198 emboldened/ savored

Ch 20 pg 206/ 209 masquerading/ ferrety

Ch 21 pg 224/ 227 vex/ spineless

Ch 22 pg 232/ 235 sprawled/ reeling

Ch 23 pg  241/ 242plummeted/ hoisted

Ch 24 pg 252/ 253 resolute/ covey

Ch 25 pg 269/ 272 hobbled/ transfixed

Ch 26 pg 277/ 282 retinue/ rebuke

Ch 27 pg 286/ 289 entourage/ dumbfounded