Cheaper By The Dozen Newspaper
I teach this novel and have two activities that have worked well. We make a chart for each of the older children and the parents. We add to the charts as we go along. A pair of students is responsible for each chart. Quotes, character traits, responses go on the chart. At the end we use the chart to answer essay questions such as: which sibling would you want for your sibling? would you like to have a father/mother like the parents in the book?
The second activity is a newspaper that the students construct with articles pertaining to the book and other events that happened during the time period from 1910-1925. World news, advice columns, classified ads (selling the house for example) are all part of the paper.
