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RDNG 4364 P01 Children’s Literature
Assignment 3: Spring Reading Workshop
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
by
Jahkayla Lee
Spring Semester 2023
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Educator Standard IV:
Literacy Development and Practice: Teachers of young students understand that literacy develops over time and progresses from emergent to proficient stages. Teachers use a variety of contexts to support the development of young students’ literacy.
http://www.tea.texs.gov/
Competency 005 (Vocabulary Development): The teacher knows the importance of vocabulary development and applies that knowledge to teach reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
http://www.tea.texs.gov/
Science of Teaching Reading:
Competency 006 (Phonics and Other Word Identification Skills): Understand concepts, principles, and best practices related to the development of phonics and other word identification
skills, including related spelling skills, and demonstrate knowledge of developmentally appropriate, research- and evidence-based assessment and instructional practices to promote all students’ development of grade-level phonics and other word identification skills and related spelling skills.
https://www.literacyworldwide.org/
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.A.B.
(3) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively. The
student is expected to: (A) use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication, pronunciation, and word origin; (B) use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple-meaning words.
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Summary:
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are unmarried siblings who live on their ancestral farm, Green Gables, in the quiet town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Matthew is sixty, and since he is getting too old to handle the farm work on his own, the Cuthberts decide to adopt an orphan boy to help him. This decision shocks the town gossip, Mrs. Rachel Lynde, who does not think Matthew and Marilla fit to raise a child. Matthew, who is terrified of women, arrives at the train station, and finds a girl orphan instead of a boy; the orphanage sent the eleven-year-old Anne Shirley by mistake. Anne’s talkativeness and spirit charm Matthew, who shyly tells Marilla
that he wants to keep her. Marilla hesitates at first, but after a trial period, she agrees to let Anne stay on. Anne is a talkative and happy girl despite living an impoverished life as an orphan. Though she lacks social graces and education, she has a rich and sophisticated fantasy life and an
optimistic and generous spirit. Because Anne acts according to her instincts and not according to a code of manners, she unintentionally defies expectations of proper ladylike behavior. She attends church for the first time wearing a wreath of wildflowers, for example, and screams at Mrs. Rachel for making fun of her red hair. Anne tries hard to oblige Marilla and follow her rules
of social conduct, but she makes many mistakes, using liniment instead of vanilla in a cake, letting a mouse drown in the plum-pudding sauce, and delivering a heartfelt but ridiculous prayer
on her first attempt to pray before bed. Anne never had real friends before living at Green Gables, so she was forced to invent imaginary playmates. In Avonlea, she meets Diana Barry, a neighbor who quickly becomes her bosom friend. One afternoon Anne invites Diana to tea and accidentally gives her red currant wine instead of a nonalcoholic raspberry cordial. Diana returns
home drunk, and Diana’s mother, thinking Anne has intoxicated Diana on purpose, forbids the girls to speak. The agonizing period of estrangement lasts until Anne saves Diana’s sister, who is sick with croup, which causes Mrs. Barry to forgive her. At school, Anne feuds with a handsome,
smart boy named Gilbert Blythe. When they first meet, Gilbert taunts Anne by calling her Carrots and pulling her red braid. Anne is extremely sensitive about her red hair, and Gilbert’s teasing infuriates her. She screams at him and smashes a slate over his head. This incident marks the beginning of a rivalry between Anne and Gilbert, the two smartest pupils, which lasts until the end of the novel. As Anne grows up, she loses some of her childish flare for the melodramatic
and romantic and turns her spirited attention to academics. A beloved teacher, Miss Stacy, recognizes Anne’s intelligence and encourages her to join a special group of students preparing
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for the entrance exam to Queen’s Academy. Her long-standing competition with Gilbert Blythe changes to an affectionate and familiar rivalry when, after four years of mutual silence, they both
go to Queen’s Academy. Striving to make Matthew and Marilla proud, Anne devotes herself to her studies wholeheartedly and earns the prestigious Avery Scholarship, which grants her enough
money to attend a four-year college the following fall. Thrilled by her future prospects, Anne goes home to Green Gables. Matthew, who has been having heart trouble, dies of a heart attack. When Anne learns that Marilla is likely to go blind, she decides to stay at Green Gables and teach nearby so that she can care for Marilla, giving up her aspirations for a four-year degree. Gilbert hears of her decision and gives up his post as the teacher at Avonlea school so that Anne can teach there and be closer to Marilla. After five years of rivalry, Gilbert and Anne forge a close friendship. Though her future path has narrowed considerably, Anne remains eternally optimistic and thinks cheerfully about her future (Sullivan, 1985).
Vocabulary Words
1.
Avonlea
2.
Alders
3.
Traversed
4.
Intricate
5.
Cascade
6.
Myriad
7.
Patriarchal
8.
repute
9.
decorum
10.
dint
11.
gauntlet
12.
sorrel
13.
placidly
14.
betoken
15.
deftly
16.
prim
17.
jaunt
18.
asylum
19.
spry
20.
qualm
21.
uncanny
22.
ungainly
23.
sidle
24.
jaunty
25.
discerning
26.
worldly
27.
homely
28.
alabaster
29.
ingenuous
30.
bough
31.
reverie
32.
ethereal
33.
ruminate
34.
wistful
35.
rapture
36.
waif
37.
reproachful
38.
gable
39.
frill
40.
raiment
41.
predilection
42.
resolutely
43.
pervade
44.
bent
45.
inculcate
46.
drudgery
47.
pinion
Questions to Ask about the Book:
Level of Bloom’s Taxonomy:
1.
Define each of the vocabulary words in Anne of Green Gables.
Knowledge level
Gone Crazy in Alabama.
2.
Describe what Marilla Cuthbert looks like.
Comprehension level
3.
Analyze why Anne talks so much. Do you think it is because she wants to cover up her
feelings? Application level
4.
Determine why Anne likes to name things. around her like plants, lakes etc. Analysis Level
(Galda, Liang, Cullinan, 2017, p 12).
References
Galda, L., Liang, L.A., & Cullinan, B.E. (2017). Literature and the child (9thed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Digital Resources
Anne of Green Gables Reading Activity #1
http://www.ilcactivities.org/reading_units/Anne%20of%20Green%20Gables.pdf
Anne of Green Gables Reading Activity #2
http://www.ilcactivities.org/reading_units/Anne%20of%20Green%20Gables.pdf
Anne of Green Gables Movie
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