Book Plan

The Hobbit Book Plan (Bigs, 7-8, 2 Weeks)

Book: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit begins with a homebody who hates adventures and ends with a question worth arguing about: what makes someone a hero?

This two-week plan walks your child or students through J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel, all 19 chapters, a few at a time. Every day has a reading assignment, three original discussion questions and one printable page woven into the lesson. Students invent a rune alphabet, test how water carves caves, draw a scaled quest map, hold a riddle contest, speak in the dragon's voice, weigh a dragon's hoard, trace Bilbo's hero's journey and write an argument essay. Along the way they meet the real Tolkien: soldier, Oxford professor and lover of Beowulf and the Norse sagas.

Perfect for grades 7 to 8 classrooms, homeschool families and book clubs.

What's inside

• 10 day-by-day lesson pages with reading schedule and questions
• A Parts of a Quest Map label sheet
• Character map, hero's journey cards and a Who Saved the Day? sort
• Carving a Cave lab sheet with a data table
• The Other Side of the Story page and argument essay page
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code
• 8 fact cards, 9 word cards, answer key and certificate

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