Analyzing Peter Pan Anchor Chart
(Example, for Teacher Reference)
RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.5
(Brief summary—no more than three sentences) / How does the chapter build on the previous chapter?
(What happened in the previous chapters? How does this chapter build on what has happened so far?)
17: Growing Up and Good-Byes / The Darling family is happy to be reunited, and Mr. and Mrs. Darling agree to take in the lost boys. Peter would not join them, but Mrs. Darling agreed to let Wendy go back to Neverland once a year to help Peter with the spring cleaning. When Wendy was grown up and married with her own daughter, Jane, Peter returned and Wendy agreed to let Jane go to spring clean once a year with Peter. / This chapter ends the story by explaining what happens to all of the characters immediately after they return to the Darling house, and it explains what happens to Wendy and Peter in the future.
Recounting Peter Pan
(Answers, for Teacher Reference)
RL.3.1, RL.3.2
Part B: Put a number on the line next to the remaining events to show the order in which they occurred in the story. (RL.3.2)
1. Peter Pan visits the Darling house.
4. The children have many adventures with pirates, mermaids, and fairies.
2. Wendy meets Peter Pan.
5. Wendy decides she wants to go home.
3. Wendy, Michael, and John fly with Peter to Neverland.
6. The lost boys are adopted by Mrs. Darling.
____ The lost boys decide not to stay with the Darlings and return to Neverland.
7. Wendy grows up and has a daughter.
____ Peter Pan grows up and has a son who looks just like him.
8. Jane flies off to Neverland with Peter.
2. Central message: What is a central message? Underline the statement that best describes a central message in Peter Pan (RL.3.2):
- Pirates are more like children than adults.
- Never grow up, because growing up is very boring.
- Growing up can be scary because it means being responsible, but we all have to do it in the end.
- Never leave home, even when you are a grownup
3a. Detail: Which sentence from Peter Pan best supports the answer to Question 2? Underline the best answer. (RL.3.2)
- “As hard as it was to believe, Hook hurt. He had no children to love him.”
- “No-one is going to catch me and make me be a man. I’m going back to Neverland.”
- “I’m grown.… I couldn’t help it,” she said. “I’m married now, and a mother.”
- “Wendy watched her baby fly into the sky and off to Neverland.”
Sample student response: It shows that Wendy didn’t have a choice— she had to grow up, even if she didn’t want to.
Recounting Peter Pan
RL.3.1, RL.3.2
Name: ______ Date: ______
1. Someone recounted the events in Peter Pan below, but they are in the wrong order and some are not correct.Part A: Read the events below. Cross out any events that did not happen in Peter Pan. (RL.3.2)
Part B: Put a number on the line next to the remaining events to show the order in which they occurred in the story. (RL.3.2)
____ Peter Pan visits the Darling house.
____ The children have many adventures with pirates, mermaids, and fairies.
____ Wendy meets Peter Pan.
____ Wendy decides she wants to go home.
____ Wendy, Michael, and John fly with Peter to Neverland.
____ The lost boys are adopted by Mrs. Darling.
____ The lost boys decide not to stay with the Darlings and return to Neverland.
____ Wendy grows up and has a daughter.
____ Peter Pan grows up and has a son who looks just like him.
____ Jane flies off to Neverland with Peter.
2. Central message: What is a central message? Underline the statement that best describes a central message in Peter Pan (RL.3.2):
- Pirates are more like children than adults.
- Never grow up, because growing up is very boring.
- Growing up can be scary because it means being responsible, but we all have to do it in the end.
- Never leave home, even when you are a grownup
3a. Detail: Which sentence from Peter Pan best supports the answer to Question 2? Underline the best answer. (RL.3.2)
- “As hard as it was to believe, Hook hurt. He had no children to love him.”
- “No-one is going to catch me and make me be a man. I’m going back to Neverland.”
- “I’m grown.… I couldn’t help it,” she said. “I’m married now, and a mother.”
- “Wendy watched her baby fly into the sky and off to Neverland.”
Homework: Language Dive II:
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Practice
(Answers, for Teacher Reference)
- Look at the scrambled sentence below from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Write it in the correct sequence:
and there were iron bars on it. / but the window was closed / to the window, / He flew straight
He flew straight to the window, but the window was closed and there were iron bars on it.
- Sketch the sentence.
- Underline the antecedent in each sentence below, then add a pronoun to complete each sentence. Be sure to use correct pronoun-antecedent agreement.
The cake was round, and there were candles on it.
The trees were tall, and there were leaves on them.
- Look at the antecedent and pronoun in each sentence, then circle the sentences that do not use correct pronoun-antecedent agreement.
- The window was wide open, just as he knew they would be.
- The fairies are beautiful dancers, and they have balls in fair rings.
- When the fairies changed the closing time, they changed them to six-thirty.
- The fairy Queen told Peter she would give him a wish.
- Rewrite the sentences circled above using correct pronoun-antecedent agreement.
The window was wide open, just as he knew it would be.
When the fairies changed the closing time, they changed it to six-thirty.
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