The Third Wish

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On your sheet of notebook paper, write the possible definitions for the underlined words.

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Definitions

Preening: (n.) cleaning feathers with a beak

Extricate: (v.) to free from tangle or difficulty

Malicious: (adj.) showing ill will; spiteful

Outskirts: (n.) the region remote from the central district of a city or town

Presumptuous: (adj.) excessively bold, confident, or shameless

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Joan Aiken

If you enjoy “The Third Wish,” you may enjoy….

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Extra Credit Opportunity

http://joanaiken.com/

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http://joanaiken.com/

Go to this website and complete one of the following

10 facts about her life using the timeline (cannot be all from the same slide)

Print a photo from the gallery and explain what you think it represents; print a photo from her “Joan’s art” and explain why you chose that particular piece.

List the 13 groups/genre’s of books she has written and name one book title in each.

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Let’s Get Started

Open your literature books to page 672. Let’s look at the “Focus Your Reading” section.

Once again, we will focus on the stages of the plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

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Activity

Before we begin reading, look at the handout for this lesson. It has two sides: one about the plot, the other about character motivation.

Notice how the conflict is involved in setting up the rising action.

Look over this handout for a few minutes before we begin reading. You do not have to fill it out as we read; however, you need to know what to look for during the story.