Chapter+21

**Pre-Reading Activity/Question:**
Think about the connection between food and your emotions. What is your favorite food? How do you feel when you eat it?

**Vocabulary:**
tomb (p. 181) batten down the hatches (p. 181) berth (p. 185) adrenaline (p. 186) sensibilities (p. 186)

**Reading Lesson Topics:**
Theme Triangle One of the themes of this book is the emotional power of food. Students will create a theme triangle to explore this theme. Theme Triangle: [|JBauerAS.ThemeTriangle.doc]

Some ideas for differentiation:
 * For more support, you can give students a specific article to read and give them more structure for how to make a personal connection. The theme statement can be generated whole-class as part of the closing.
 * To challenge students more, you can model with this theme and have students choose a different theme to work on independently. You can also have students provide support for each leg of the triangle (quotes, specific details, examples, etc).

**Writing Activities:**
Write an extended response where you support your theme statement. Use specific details and examples from the texts and from life.