The Hobbit, A Teaching Guide [Perfect Paperback]

Mary Elizabeth (Illustrator), Kathy Kifer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1998

Teaching Guide designed to develop an appreciation for literature and to improve reading skills, exploring critique and literature elements.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Garlic Pr; Workbook edition (May 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931993903
• ISBN-13: 978-0931993909
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #191,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I am an inventor who works mainly in words, but also in sound and images.

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Always trying to bring something new and unique to my work, I have made many different things, including 11 books, the libretto for the opera "Kiravanu" (music by James Humberstone) that premiered in Sydney in September, 2008; a setting of an excerpted version of W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio" for choir, soloists, brass quintet, and harp; the nearly 1700 international worksheets for the Sibelius Notation Software Worksheet Creator, based on the music curricula of the US, UK, AU, NZ, and Canada; and a collage interpretations of portions of Gabriela Mistral's "Decalogo del artista."

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent teaching tool, December 5, 2002

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R. S. Jordan (In a Hobbit Hole, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Hobbit, A Teaching Guide (Perfect Paperback)

I've been teaching for 8 years. I teach 7th grade literature both gifted and talented as well as resource students. This study guide is excellent if you are looking for an in-depth study of The Hobbit. It is set up in an easy-to-use format with higher level chapter questions, vocab with definitions and page numbers, chapter summaries, writing activities, and "strategies" on literary terms. Some parts are difficult for my resource students, but it is easy to tailor the curriculum to meet the needs of all of your students. The students especially enjoy the "strategy" in which they translate the runes and the one about the maps. I highly recommend this resource!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Critical Thinking about The Hobbit, March 24, 2003

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Laura Lynn Walsh "gt-teacher" (Fairbanks, AK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hobbit, A Teaching Guide (Perfect Paperback)

I purchased this product along with The Hobbit: A Unit Plan by Mary B. Collins and A Guide for Using The Hobbit in the Classroom by John Carratello. I like this product very much for the higher level thinking activities, lessons, and strategies. For my purposes at this time (I am not currently teaching gifted classes), the Collins unit is better, but there are several activities I especially like from this book. The Runes translation activity my students enjoyed. The Carratello book is much simpler and the activities are more tangential, although I found the riddle activity useful in that book as well.

The advantage of the Collins product is that it is a PDF file on CD and can be word processed for different purposes. The advantage of this product is that the format is already fine for photocopying and student use.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Hobbit Resource Book, March 27, 2008

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R. P. Ricks - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hobbit, A Teaching Guide (Perfect Paperback)

Excellent resource to use when reading The Hobbit. I would not recommend it to teachers to use in any grade below fifth. This resource is at the advanced level.