Teacher's Guide
Teacher's Guide in process. I welcome recommendations from teachers and educators who read Meridian's Heart and who can help develop this section as a teaching aid. Please use the Contact page to send me your recommendations. Thanks, Michael Schreiber.
Meridian's Heart offers multiple questions to engage students in learning and analyzing a story and how an author applies everyday situations and events into a storyline. The guiding questions posed herein have been developed to encourage students to read a chapter and then have the opportunity to answer questions…many which are open ended with no right answer. The success of this guide will be based on students' responses.
Chapter One — Flying Solo
- Meridian makes a quick decision to rescue her friend, Holly Timberlake. Write a paragraph on a situation in your life that required quick thinking to resolve or address a problem.
- Meridian is facing the first of several Flight Certification tests and is nervous. Write a paragraph or two on a time in your life where you were nervous and how did you feel. Do you remember how you managed your nerves?
- Both Meridian's and Holly's moms have pressured them on the importance of passing Flight Certification. Have there been times when your mother or father put pressure on you to succeed? Was their advice useful? Should they have handled it a different way, and if yes, how?
- Meridian on page 6 tells Holly: “Keep a clear mind and you will be fine.” Do you have any favorite saying or a line from a song that you enjoy? Maybe for the words…maybe how they rhyme…or sound?
- Page 7 — Who were Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, the Cottingley cousins, and what made them famous?
- Page 10 — Tooth fairy collection specialists have an overarching rule: never use or attempt magic on Earth. If you had to make one rule that a friend could never break or it might end your friendship, what would that rule be and why?
Chapter Two — The Black King
Questions for this chapter are still being developed.