Narrative Summaries and Cartoon Vocabulary
Your poster board will feature the following four sections:
1. Create a visual summary for Freak the Mighty.
1. Compose a written summary of Freak the Mighty.
2. You will have six squares: one square for each plot
element (two for the rising action).
2. Your summary should be five paragraphs in
length—one paragraph for each plot element.
3. Each square should contain a visual demonstration
of a key scene and should be accompanied by a
caption that explains the scene.
3. Use my example as a guide, but do not copy my
work.
4. Use my example as a guide, but do not copy my
work.
5. Finally, go back and highlight all of the nouns
within your summary.
4. Finally, go back and highlight all of the verbs in
your written summary.
5. Highlight the verbs in two different colors: one for
regular verbs and one for irregular verbs.
6. Highlight the nouns in three different colors: one
for common nouns, one for proper nouns, and one
for collective nouns.
1. Create a cartoon vocabulary for one of the Freak
the Mighty buzz words.
1. Create a second cartoon vocabulary for another
one of the Freak the Mighty buzz words.
2. Define the word.
2. Define the word.
3. Identify a link for the word.
3. Identify a link for the word.
4. Create a visual demonstration that shows the link
between the buzz word and the link.
4. Create a visual demonstration that shows the link
between the buzz word and the link.
5. Include a caption that explains the link.
5. Include a caption that explains the link.
6. Construct three sentences that contain the word
and that contain context clues.
6. Construct three sentences that contain the word
and that contain context clues.
7. Finally, go back and highlight each adjective within
your cartoon vocabulary.
7. Next, go back and highlight all of the prepositions
within your cartoon vocabulary.
8. Highlight the adjectives in two different colors:
one for proper adjectives and one for common
adjectives.
8. Finally, go back and underline the prepositional
phrases.
Rubric for Narrative Summaries and Cartoon Vocabularies
Description
Does your visual summary feature 6 key scenes
that represent each plot element (2 for the rising
action)?
Is your written summary at least one typed page
in length?
Does your written summary contain five
paragraphs—one paragraph for every plot
element?
Does your project contain two cartoon
vocabularies—one each for a buzz word from
Freak the Mighty, which fully follow the
directions?
Has your work been edited and revised to
eliminate common grammatical errors?
Do your sentences flow well and feature a variety
of sentences and accurate word choices?
Did you accurately highlight and differentiate the
examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
prepositions/prepositional phrases?
Overall, is your work presentable: neat, organized,
advanced, insightful, and attractive to an
audience?
Did you present your work in a clear, concise, and
confident manner, meaning that the audience
could clearly hear and understand you?
Overall, do your summaries capture the key
details within the novel?
Total
Comments:
Points
Possible
6
5
5
10
5
5
5
5
4
10
60
Points
Earned
Theme and Main Idea PLEAs and Cartoon Vocabulary
Your poster board will feature the following four sections:
1. Compose a PLEA paragraph that expresses the
main idea of Freak the Mighty.
1. Compose a PLEA paragraph that expresses the
theme of Freak the Mighty.
2. Be sure to express the main idea, provide
background information, and support your point
with valid evidence and analysis.
2. Be sure to express the theme, provide background
information, and support your point with valid
evidence and analysis.
3. For your evidence, quote one example and
paraphrase/summarize another example.
3. For your evidence, quote one example and
paraphrase/summarize another example.
4. Use my example as a guide, but do not copy my
work.
6. Use my example as a guide, but do not copy my
work.
5. Finally, go back and highlight all of the nouns
within your paragraph.
7. Finally, go back and highlight all of the verbs in
your paragraph.
6. Highlight the nouns in three different colors: one
for common nouns, one for proper nouns, and one
for collective nouns.
8. Highlight the verbs in two different colors: one for
regular verbs and one for irregular verbs.
1. Create a cartoon vocabulary for the term main
idea.
1. Create a second cartoon vocabulary for the term
theme.
2. Define the term.
2. Define the term.
3. Identify a link for the term.
3. Identify a link for the term.
4. Create a visual demonstration that shows the link
between the term and the link.
4. Create a visual demonstration that shows the link
between the term and the link.
5. Include a caption that explains the link.
5. Include a caption that explains the link.
6. Construct three sentences that contain the term
and that contain context clues.
6. Next, go back and highlight all of the prepositions
within your cartoon vocabulary.
7. Finally, go back and highlight each adjective within
your cartoon vocabulary.
7. Finally, go back and underline the prepositional
phrases.
8. Highlight the adjectives in two different colors:
one for proper adjectives and one for common
adjectives.
Rubric for Theme and Main Idea PLEAs and Cartoon Vocabularies
Description
Points
Possible
Do your PLEA paragraphs clearly present the main
10
idea and theme of Freak the Mighty in the form of
points?
Are your points in both PLEAs supported by valid
5
evidence and insightful analysis?
Do your Links in both paragraphs clearly provide
5
the TAGS information and lead into the evidence?
Is your evidence properly cited (documented)?
5
Does your project contain two cartoon
10
vocabularies—one each for the main idea and
theme, which fully follow the directions?
Has your work been edited and revised to
5
eliminate common grammatical errors?
Do your sentences flow well and feature a variety
5
of sentences and accurate word choices?
Did you accurately highlight and differentiate the
5
examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
prepositions/prepositional phrases?
Overall, is your work presentable: neat, organized,
5
advanced, insightful, and attractive to an
audience?
Did you present your work in a clear, concise, and
5
confident manner, meaning that the audience
could clearly hear and understand you?
Total
60
Comments:
Points
Earned
Literary Devices and Leveled Questions
Your poster board will feature the following four sections:
1. From Freak the Mighty, quote and cite examples of
the following literary terms:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
L.
M.
N.
O.
P.
Q.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Idiom
Hyperbole
Suspense
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Repetition
Symbol
First-person perspective bias/unreliability
Tone
Mood
Direct characterization
Indirect characterization
2. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my
work. Find different examples of each term.
1. Pick another three terms from the first square.
2. Create a visual demonstration of each of these
terms.
3. Each visual demonstration should depict the
feeling produced, the imagery created, or the
reason this was included in the novel.
4. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy
my work.
1. Pick ten of the literary terms from the first square
and explain the examples you gave for each.
2. Be sure to provide a thorough description of each
term. Explain the effect, meaning the imagery
created, the feeling produced, or the reason this
was included in the novel.
3. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my
work. Do not use the same examples that I used.
4. Finally, go back and highlight all of the nouns
within your summary with one color, and highlight
the verbs with another color.
5. Highlight your nouns using three different colors:
one for common nouns, one for proper nouns, and
one for collective nouns.
6. Highlight the verbs using two different colors (not
the same as the nouns): one for regular verbs and
one for irregular verbs.
1. Create leveled questions for Freak the Mighty.
A. One level 1
B. Two level 2
C. One level 3
2. Answer each question in the form of a point.
3. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my
work.
4. Look back at your leveled questions and answers
and highlight all prepositions in one color and all
adjectives in another color.
5. Highlight each preposition and underline the
phrase it creates.
6. Using different colors, highlight all of the
adjectives using two colors: one for common and
one for proper.
Rubric for Literary Devices and Leveled Questions
Description
Did you quote accurate examples for each
literary term?
Does your description for each of your
examples clearly explain the examples and the
reasons that each literary term was used?
Does your visual description for each of your
examples clearly demonstrate the examples
and the reasons that each literary term was
used?
Are your examples properly cited
(documented)?
Does your project contain accurately written
and answered leveled questions that follow the
instructions?
Has your work been edited and revised to
eliminate common grammatical errors?
Points
Possible
10
10
5
5
10
5
Did you accurately highlight and differentiate the
examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
prepositions/prepositional phrases?
5
Overall, is your work presentable: neat,
organized, advanced, insightful, and attractive
to an audience?
Did you present your work in a clear, concise,
and confident manner, meaning that the
audience could clearly hear and understand
you?
Total
5
Comments:
5
60
Points
Earned
Tone, Mood, and Leveled questions
Your poster board will feature the following four sections:
1. Find, quote, and cite, ten examples that feature
tone from Rodman Philbrick or from one of his
characters in Freak the Mighty.
1. Pick seven of the examples from the first
square and describe the mood that is
produced for the reader. Use specific words
from the tone vocabulary list that I gave you.
2. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my
work. Find different examples.
2. Be sure also to explain the effect of the mood.
For example, what does it foreshadow, or how
does it produce suspense, or how does it
provide characterization, etc.?
3. Finally, go back and highlight all of the nouns
within your examples.
4. Highlight the nouns in three different colors: one
for common nouns, one for proper nouns, and one
for collective nouns.
3. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy
my work.
4. Finally, go back and highlight all of the verbs in
your descriptions.
5. Highlight the verbs using two different colors:
one for regular verbs and one for irregular
verbs.
1. Pick three examples from the first square and
visually demonstrate the mood that is produced.
2. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my
work.
1. Create leveled questions for Freak the Mighty.
2. One level 1
3. Two level 2
4. One level 3
5. Answer each question in the form of a point.
6. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my
work.
7. Highlight each preposition and underline the
phrase it creates.
8. Using different colors, highlight all of the
adjectives using two colors: one for common and
one for proper.
Rubric for Tone, Mood, and Leveled Questions
Description
Did you quote accurate examples of tone?
Does your description for each of your
examples clearly describe the tone, the mood it
produces, and the effect of this mood?
Does your visual description for each of your
examples clearly demonstrate the attitude, the
mood it produces, and the effect of this mood?
Are your examples properly cited
(documented)?
Does your project contain accurately written
and answered leveled questions that follow the
instructions?
Has your work been edited and revised to
eliminate common grammatical errors?
Points
Possible
10
10
5
5
10
5
Did you accurately highlight and differentiate the
examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
prepositions/prepositional phrases?
5
Overall, is your work presentable: neat,
organized, advanced, insightful, and attractive
to an audience?
Did you present your work in a clear, concise,
and confident manner, meaning that the
audience could clearly hear and understand
you?
Total
5
Comments:
5
60
Points
Earned
Narrator Point of View
Your poster board will feature the following four sections:
1. Pick a scene from Freak the Mighty, and write it in
the first-person perspective from another
character’s point of view—not from Max’s
perspective.
1. Pick a scene from Freak the Mighty, and write it in
the third-person-limited perspective.
2. Begin by defining the perspective.
3. Be sure to provide dialogue, and keep it in the
form featured in the novel.
3. Be sure to provide dialogue, and keep it in the
form featured in the novel.
2. Begin by defining the perspective.
4. Your scene should be a page in length.
4. Your scene should be a page in length.
5. Finally, go back and highlight all of the verbs in
your scene.
5. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my
work.
6. Highlight the verbs using two different colors (not
the same as the nouns): one for regular verbs and
one for irregular verbs.
6. Finally, go back and highlight all of the nouns
within your scene.
7. Highlight the nouns in three different colors: one
for common nouns, one for proper nouns, and one
for collective nouns.
1. Pick a scene from Freak the Mighty, and write it in
the third-person-omniscient perspective.
1. Pick a scene from Freak the Mighty, and write it in
the third-person-objective perspective.
2. Begin by defining the perspective.
2. Begin by defining the perspective.
3. Be sure to provide dialogue, and keep it in the
form featured in the novel.
3. Be sure to provide dialogue, and keep it in the
form featured in the novel.
3. Your scene should be a page in length.
4. Your scene should be a page in length.
4. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my
work.
5. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my
work.
5. Finally, go back and highlight each adjective within
your cartoon vocabulary.
7. Look back at your leveled questions and answers
and highlight all prepositions in one color and all
adjectives in another color.
6. Highlight the adjectives in two different colors:
one for proper adjectives and one for common
adjectives.
8. Highlight each preposition and underline the
phrase it creates.
9. Using different colors, highlight all of the
adjectives using two colors: one for common and
one for proper.
Rubric for Narrative Summaries and Cartoon Vocabularies
Description
Points
Possible
Did you define each perspective before you began
5
each scene?
Is each scene at least 1 page in length?
5
Does each scene feature correctly punctuated and
5
formatted dialogue?
Does each scene demonstrate the correct point of
10
view?
Has your work been edited and revised to
10
eliminate common grammatical errors?
Do your sentences flow well and feature a variety
5
of sentences and accurate word choices?
Did you accurately highlight and differentiate the
10
examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
prepositions/prepositional phrases?
Overall, is your work presentable: neat, organized,
5
advanced, insightful, and attractive to an
audience?
Did you present your work in a clear, concise, and
5
confident manner, meaning that the audience
could clearly hear and understand you?
Total
60
Comments:
Points
Earned