Edward and his mother live in a cottage in Pigbone where Edward likes to escape to an abandoned cottage to be alone. Edward meets a magician named Moongobble who moved into the abandoned cottage to practice his magic. Moongobble asks Edward to be his helper in return for a silver penny every day. Things were going great until news came that Fazwad, the head of the Society of Magicians, was coming to inspect Moongobble’s magic. Moongobble fails his inspection and has to get past the Dragon of Doom to fetch the Golden Acorns of Alcoona. The characters elicit the help of the Rusty Knight and end up making friends with the Dragon of Doom, whose name is Fireball. Moongobble passes the first of his three Mighty Tasks and can join the Society of Magicians once he passes all three.
I would use this book in the classroom by asking the students to create a dramatization. I would bring a flip video camera into class and have the students reenact the story using the dialogue within the text and creating their own movements to correlate with the text. For older grades, I could split the students into groups and have each group reenact the entire story to compare the different interpretations. For younger grades, I could split the book into smaller sections and have each group reenact one section of the book. The students could either videotape themselves and then present the video to the class, or I could videotape the students and they could take turns going to the front of the room to be in the video. The students would need to analyze the text in a deeper way in order to figure out how to create their video.
AR Book Finder Book Level 3.3
AR Book Finder Book Level 3.3
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