Jerry...Revealed!

(12-year old Jerry)

Click on this link and read the third and fourth paragraphs. Use this site to answer questions 1-4 on your follow along guide.

http://www.clickinks.com/Clickinks-Biographies-The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Jerry-Spinelli.html

Use this link to discover where Jerry finds his inspiration and gets his ideas for his books! Record, on your follow along guide, three places Jerry "researches" for his story ideas.

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/jerry-spinelli

Click on the link below and scroll down to the section labeled "Fun Facts About Jerry Spinelli". Read through these facts and record five things that you find fun and interesting.

http://www.ducksters.com/biography/jerry_spinelli.php

Watch this video called "Jingle Jangle Dreams". Answer the questions on your follow-along sheet.

Books

Click on the link below and choose either Spinelli's reading of Stargirl or his reading of Maniac Magee to listen to.

http://www.jerryspinelli.com/newbery_007.htm

Choose three of the following to look at:

Stargirl (Reading Level: 6th-8th)

Quote: "She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew."

http://www.multcolib.org/talk/guides-stargirl.html

Maniac Magee (Reading Level: 6th-8th)

Quote: "Inside his house a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it's whatever the rest of the world wants to call him."

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=429

Crash (Reading Level: 6th-8th)

Quote: "My real name is John. John Coogan. But everybody calls me Crash, even my parents. It started way back when I got my first football helmet for Christmas. I don't really remember this happening, but they say that when Uncle Herm's family came over to see our presents, as they were coming through the front door I got down into a four-point stance, growled "Hut! Hut! Hut!" and charged ahead with my brand-new helmet."

http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~jcope/Eng3391/3391F00/Terri%20Kelly/Terri%20Kelly.htm

Loser (Reading Level: 6th-8th)

Quote: "Zinkoff has always been clumsy, but now they notice. Zinkoff has always been messy and atrocious and too early and giggly and slow and more often than not wrong in his answers. But now they notice. They notice the stars on his shirts and his atrocious hair and his atrocious way he volunteers for everything. They notice it all. Even the dime-sized birthmark on his neck below his right earlobe…"

http://www.pamf.org/preteen/share/books/loser.html

Jerry Spinelli Activity!

Follow the link below to crack Jerry's secret code!

http://www.jerryspinelli.com/newbery_011.htm