Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
Lesson plans and teaching resources

A variety of reading strategies, including a prereading activity and vocabulary support. Adobe Reader needed for access.

Cold Sassy Tree Learn It Guide. Adobe Reader required for these resources.

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  Author biography, background information, character list, vocabulary words.
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  Students work with descriptive language, mapping words, and making predictions.
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  Students work with cause and effect, vocabulary, and making predictions.
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  Students analyze characterization, map words, and make predictions.
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  Students consider the novel as a bildungsroman , work with context clues, and think beyond the novel.
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  Students work with inference and indirect characterization.
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  Students compare and contrast Cold Sassy and Mill Town.
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  Students analyze the relationship between journeys and character development.
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  Students details changes that relate to theme.
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  6 discussion questions and 5 post-reading activities.
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  10 questions.

This unit plan uses hats to connect literature, business, and history.

A list of songs that were inspired by reading literature. Organized by the last name of the author (e.g. Chinua Achebe, William Butler Yeats), the list includes song title, performer, year of release, and more. The list includes 6 songs inspired by Cold Sassy Tree .

A list of 115 words drawn from Chapter 1 of the novel. Each word is listed in the sentence in which it appears.