Name: _________________________________________________________
Class group: _____________
Mark: ___________
Observations:
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PRE-READING ACTIVITIES
Look at the cover of the book. What’s the meaning of blend in?
Have you ever felt you didn’t blend in? For what reasons?
Why do you think it’s titled Wonder? What does the cover of the book suggest you?
WHILE READING ACTIVITIES
Ordinary
Do you think you are an ordinary person? Why? Why not?
What makes a person extraordinary?
How does his family consider him?
How do you imagine him?
Why I didn’t go to school?
Have you ever not been able to attend school? Why?
Would you like homeschooling? Explain advantages and disadvantages of
homeschooling
How I came to life
Do your parents tell you stories about when you were born? Describe some.
Paging Mr Tushman
What’s the meaning of “mumble”? Look up the word in the dictionary of necessary
Can you add other verbs that imply sounds made with your mouth?
Giggle,…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Look at this suffix: Babyish, brownish, sevenish, peckish,…..Whatmeaning does this
suffix add?
Nice Mrs García
Do you remember your first day at High school? Describe it
If you had to lead a tour around your school, where would you take them? Describe it.
“…… wearing crocs…”. This is an example of a literary figure known as metonimia.
What’s METONIMIA?
What other items do you use by the name of the brand?
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The deal
Have you ever used some kind of signal with your parents/friends like August used
with his mum?
Around the room
What are the two things you’d like to share in class on the first day of school?
Choose kind
What’s a precept? Write one example as well
Padawan
How did August feel at the end of the chapter? Do you understand why he feels like
that?
September
What does August mean by “quizzes”?
Would it be possible not to have “quizzes” at school? How would it be possible to
assess students in another way? Proposed different ideas.
What are your useual reactions when you bump into somebody “extraordinary”?
Mr Brown’s October precept
Write 100 words about another precept
The cheese touch
There is a reference to a book, The Diary of a Wimpy Kid. That is an example of
METALITERATURE. Add all the references to other books that are mentioned along the
book.
Costume
What costumes have you worn for Halloween or Carnival?
What do you think will happen next?
What would you have done in his place?
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PART II
Is there a change of narrator? Explain.
Seeing August
Do you understand how Via felt?
Add other words to the list that can describe how people feel when seeing August:
sickened,, scared, horrified…………………………………………………………………………………..
August through the peephole
We have now a better picture of what he looks like. Can you draw him?
What would you like to see through a peephole?
After school
Have you had that feeling that your friends had change after going back to school after
the summer holidays?
Do you understand why Olivia was upset because Auggie cut his braid? Explain.
An apparition at the doors
Have you ever felt jealous of your brothers or sisters?
Do you think Olivia is jealous? Why do you think that?
PART III: SUMMER
Who is Summer?
What’s the relationship between Summer and Auggie like?
November
Draw a hand and the names of the fingers
PART IV: JACK
Are there “welcome buddies” in your school?
Do you think it’d be a good idea to shepherd new students coming to school?
Retell the incident that almost made Jack being suspended from school
What’s the meaning of “to have an inkling”?
Do you think Mr Tushman was comprehensible?
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Inclusion school
What type of school is that?
What does “the war” consist of?
PART V: JUSTIN
What do you notice about his writing?
Do you have tics? When? What type of tics?
PART VI: AUGUST
What’s “snitching”?
Were kids bullying Auggie? Have you ever been bullied at school? Have you ever been
a bully yourself?
What are Lobot ears?
Have you ever had a pet and then lost it? How did you feel? What did you do then?
What’s the meaning of “understudy”?
PART VII: MIRANDA
Why do you think Miranda didn’t call Olivia when she went back from summer camp?
Why would she say she had a little brother who was deformed?
Have you ever stopped talking to a friend? Did you later get your friendship back?
PART VIII: AUGUST
Have you ever been on a nature retreat with your school mates? Where? How many
days? What kind of activities did you do? Do you have any funny story to tell?
What animal would you choose if you had to do a self-portrait? Why?
What kind of award did Auggie get?
Did you expect this ending? Would you change it? Why?
Can you explain now the meaning of the title of the book?
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VOCABULARY
Look up the meaning of these PHRASAL VERBS in the dictionary and write its definition and
one sentence with each word.
To Blend in
To Stand out
To Hang out
To Throw up
To Put up with
To make up one’s mind
To get to somebody
To bring somebody up
To ice somebody out
