Welcome to your unit! The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is ...

Welcome to your unit! The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is an award winning (Caudill, Newbery, and Carnegie Awards, among others) about a boy named Nobody Owens, who is raised by spirits and monsters in a graveyard. Follow along with Bod's life as he grows amongst tombstones, mausoleums, and learns to navigate through the living world and see what happens when the man who killed his family (and landed him in the graveyard in the first place) comes looking for him!

Name ________________________________ The Graveyard Book Chapter 1

Vocabulary: Use a dictionary and prior knowledge to define these words: Casement:____________________________________________________________________ Inhabitants: _________________________________________________________________ Obduracy: ___________________________________________________________________ Expostulated: ________________________________________________________________ Scandalized: _________________________________________________________________ Decreed: _____________________________________________________________________ We meet a number of characters in the first chapter. Provide a few facts about each character. 1) The man Jack 2) Nobody 3) Mistress Owens 4) Silas 5) The Lady in Grey Reading Questions: Please answer these questions with complete sentences. Use the book to provide evidence to support your answers.

1) Why do you think the man Jack is hurting the family? Make a prediction.

2) The narrator gives an in-depth description of what the baby boy is seeing and doing. What is your earliest memory?

3) Who does Mistress Owens see when she decides that it is her duty to take the baby?

4) What is "Freedom of the Graveyard?"

5) Why do the spirits name the baby "Nobody?"

6) How do the spirits plan to care for Nobody?

Vocabulary Practice: Use these vocabulary words in a sentence that demonstrates that you know the meaning of each word. Word Bank: Inhabitants, Casement, Expostulated, Decreed, Obduracy, Scandalized 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6)

Name ________________________________ The Graveyard Book Chapter 2

Vocabulary: Use a dictionary and prior knowledge to define these words: Tousled: _____________________________________________________________________ Attained: ____________________________________________________________________ Anorak: _____________________________________________________________________ Guttural: ____________________________________________________________________ Masonry: ____________________________________________________________________ Be sure to annotate new characters, new settings, important events and similes/metaphors. Reading Questions: Please answer these questions with complete sentences. Use the book to provide evidence to support your answers.

1) Why can't Bod leave the graveyard?

2) Sometimes when the narrator talks about people that Bod passes in the graveyard, he uses parenthesis and a description. What does this represent?

3) What is Bod's new friend's name? What are some of her characteristics?

4) When were the Romans alive? When were the Celts alive?

5) Who is the Indigo Man? What is he doing?

6) What is a "Sleer?"

7) Do Scarlett's parents believe her when she tells them where she was? Would you believe her?

8) The narrator describes Bod as wearing a "winding sheet." What is this? Give a description and draw a picture of Bod in his winding sheet.

Name ________________________

The Graveyard Book Chapter 3

Vocabulary: Circle the word you think means the same thing as the bold vocabulary word on the left side of the column.

Ignorant Adequate Skulked Piebald Glimmering Swoop Impenetrable

Uninformed Intolerable Meet Spotted Sparkling Ascend Safe

All-knowing Able Encounter Solid Fading Pounce Impassable

Smart Unfit Prowl Uniform Warning Dive Soft

Be sure to annotate new characters, new settings, important events and similes/metaphors.

Reading Questions: Please answer these questions with complete sentences. Use the book to provide evidence to support your answers.

1) What is a night-gaunt?

2) Why does Bod hate Silas for leaving? Have you ever been mad at someone for going away?

3) What are "porkies?" Use context clues from the story to help figure it out.

4) Who is the 33rd President of the United States?

5) How are ghouls different from the other spirits Bod has met?

6) Who is the Hellhound? Were you surprised? If you had the power to turn into any animal, what would you turn into?

Choose one of the ghouls (the 33rd President of the United States, Victor Hugo, or the Emporer of China) and write a short story about what you would do if you met them. Use historical information to support the characters and your actions.

Name ________________________________

The Graveyard Book Chapter 4

Vocabulary Review: Use your notes from previous sections to fill in the

blanks. There are more words in the word bank than you will actually end

up using to complete this activity.

Word Bank

Glimmering

Casement

Guttural

Anorak

Skulked

Inadequate

Decreed

Swoop

Inhabitants

Impenetrable

1) As Bod wandered through the graveyard, he thought he saw something _______________ beyond the __________________.

2) Silas made a _______________ sound as he _________________ away. 3) The ________________ of the cemetery __________________ that Bod could

have Freedom of the Graveyard. 4) Scarlett wore an orange _______________ to protect her from the rain. 5) They could not get into the mausoleum. It was _____________________. 6) Bod heard something ___________________ near his head while the ghouls

had him trapped. 7) Scarlett's ability to see in the dark mausoleum was ________________ and

she had a difficult time.

Be sure to annotate new characters, new settings, important events and similes/metaphors.

Reading Questions: Please answer these questions with complete sentences. Use the book to provide evidence to support your answers.

1) Bod is very curious about the witch buried in the Potter's Field. What are Potter's Fields?

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