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Kate DiCamilloA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these questions or activities to help gauge students’ familiarity with and spark their interest in the context of the work, giving them an entry point into the text itself.
Short Answer
What are the pros and cons of nonconformity? What might be the social consequences of those who refuse to conform?
Teaching Suggestion: Despereaux, the novel’s protagonist, is unable to conform to his mouse community because of his unusual behavior and interests. He is sentenced to the dungeon by the Mouse Council for refusing to apologize for breaking the rules of the mouse community. Consider discussing the positives and negatives of conformity and allowing students to speculate about the consequences of nonconformists before exploring the resources.
Short Activity
Use prior knowledge and experience to create a poster with descriptions of the perfect hero. Use these guiding questions to help in your design.
Teaching Suggestion: Despereaux is an unlikely hero.
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