Rascal Book Study
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Recommended for: Intermediate Years (4th-8th)
- Rascal Book Study with weekly lesson plans, recipes, and more
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- Rascal Extension Book List
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- Book Club Meet-up Guide
Overview of Rascal
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North is a semi-autobiographical children’s book by Sterling North about his childhood in Wisconsin during the last year of World War I. The story chronicles the days of 11-year-old Sterling North, who captures and befriends a baby raccoon he names Rascal. Sterling and Rascal adventure together while the world around them is changing with industrialization on the horizon and World War I drawing to a close.
Rascal is a coming of age story intertwined with loss — loss of innocence, family, and friends. Sterling is forced to make many of life’s difficult choices alone as he grows into a young man. The book compares Sterling’s relationships with animals to the adults around him. Rascal was a 1964 Newbery Honor book, won the 1964 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and won the 1966 Sequoyah Book Award.
Themes covered in this study
- Raccoons
- Canoes
- Wisconsin Native American tribes
- The Black Hawk war
- Wisconsin native birds - whippoorwills
- Flora and fauna of Wisconsin/Lake Superior
- End of World War I and Armistice Day
- Lake Superior rocks and minerals - agates
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Each book contains four weekly lesson plans to be used as a menu so parents can choose which activities to do each day.
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We used the Twenty-One Balloons book study and are now starting the Summer of the Monkeys! My kids and I really enjoy these studies! All the extras that come with them really makes it worthwhile! We enjoy unit studies and the fact that we can learn a little geography, Science and history all while reading rich literature is the best! I have purchased a couple others but haven't used them, but we look forward to doing more!
This is one of the best comprehensive book studies! I absolutely love the activities and ideas that come along with it. We will definitely be doing more of these and hope to join in on the Treehouse Schoolhouse Book Club!
My kiddo is so excited to start this book study! I am impressed with everything that is incorporated into this study - social studies, geography, history, science, math, art and of course language arts. I am looking forward to creating many wonderful memories while completing this study.
This is so thoughtfully written to engage our kiddos with the book in creative and fun ways. Thank you!
R., it’s not really fair that you trash all the work these people spent doing this guide because it offended you. Perhaps try and not take things personally and use what works for you and ignore what doesn’t. We can’t go about life feeling offended by history (no matter how awful) or other people’s views.