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Wonder · Garden Heights Academy
Part 4
for Wonder · Part 4 · Narrated by Jack
a novel by R.J. Palacio
30 min6 Parts
This workbook is built on a solid pedagogical foundation, effectively integrating content and language learning based on the CLIL framework (Content and Language Integrated Learning), elevated by our unique 5th C — Connection — and an integrated Standardized Test section that weaves every SAT & TOEFL question type right into the novel, so learners build real test skills easily, naturally, and with fun.
💭 Before You Read · Just for Fun
No right or wrong answers — just think or chat about it: Have you ever gone along with a group even though you privately disagreed — what was the pressure like? What is the difference between a real apology and the word “sorry”? And can one person really change what a whole room does?
What Happens in Part 4
Jack Will explains his side of things. Mr. Tushman first asked him to befriend Auggie, and Jack was nervous — but he came to genuinely like him. When Summer’s clue makes Jack realize Auggie overheard him at Halloween, he is filled with regret. In winter, when Julian mocks Auggie once too often, Jack punches him and is suspended. Jack and Auggie make up and become true friends — but Julian’s group starts a quiet war of nasty notes against them.
What We Will Learn
Literary Element
What It Means
Internal Conflict
A struggle that happens inside a character’s own mind
Flashback
A scene that jumps back to an earlier time
Climax
The most intense, turning-point moment of a story
Chapter Summary
In This Part
Key Events
Jack’s Side
Jack reveals he was first asked to befriend Auggie but grew to truly like him
Regret
Summer’s clue makes Jack realize Auggie overheard him at Halloween
The Punch
Jack hits Julian for insulting Auggie and is suspended
The War
Julian’s group begins leaving cruel notes for Jack and Auggie
Copyright Notice
Independent study guide by Garden Heights Academy. Not affiliated with or endorsed by R.J. Palacio or Alfred A. Knopf. No text from the novel is reproduced. Students should read the original book.
Part 1
Vocabulary
Study 10 key words from Part Four (Jack), then answer each question.
🧠Knowledge Bank · The Pull of the Group
Lexicology · The Pull of the Group
Jack betrays Auggie to fit in with the popular crowd, then deeply regrets it. Scientists who study young people find that peer pressure is especially powerful in the school years, when belonging can feel almost as important as breathing. Palacio shows the truth behind the research: good people sometimes make bad choices to fit in — and growing up means finding the courage to make thingsright. The young brain feels social rejection almost like physical pain, which is what makes Jack’s later choice to stand by Auggie so hard, and so brave. The terms loyalty and consequence mark separate stages in the action, so neither can replace the other. Each apologize term earns its place by distinguishing loyalty within The Pull of the Group.
Such language choices reveal the author’s deliberate diction.
ⓘ Vocabulary words are selected to help you understand and complete this workbook. Some may not appear verbatim in the novel.
regretn.Pt.4
A feeling of being sorry about something you did
“Jack is filled with regret over his Halloween words.”
guiltn.Pt.4
The bad feeling of having done something wrong
“Guilt keeps Jack awake at night.”
conflictn.Pt.4
A struggle or problem, between people or inside a person
“Jack feels a conflict between fitting in and doing right.”
apologizev.Pt.4
To say you are sorry
“Jack wants to apologize to Auggie.”
loyaltyn.Pt.4
Faithful support for a friend
“Jack finally chooses loyalty to Auggie.”
consequencen.Pt.4
A result of an action
“Suspension is the consequence of the fight.”
reconcilev.Pt.4
To become friends again after a quarrel
“Jack and Auggie reconcile and grow closer.”
tauntv.Pt.4
To tease in a cruel way
“Julian likes to taunt Auggie.”
couragen.Pt.4
Bravery; doing what is right despite fear
“It takes courage for Jack to defend his friend.”
suspendv.Pt.4
To make a student stay out of school for a time as punishment
“The school decides to suspend Jack for the fight.”
1Jack feels sorry about what he said at Halloween. He is filled with —Pt.4
2“Guilt” is the good feeling you get after helping someone.Pt.4
3A struggle inside a person, or between people, is a —Pt.4
4Fill in each blank with the correct word.Pt.4
Word choices:apologizeconsequencetauntloyalty- some words will not be used
To say you are sorry is to
A result of an action is a
5To “reconcile” means to become friends again after a quarrel.Pt.4
6Julian likes to tease Auggie cruelly. He likes to — him.Pt.4
7Doing what is right even when you are afraid takes —Pt.4
8To “suspend” a student means to make them stay out of school for a time.Pt.4
9Fill in each blank with the correct word.Pt.4
Word choices:loyaltyguiltreconcilecourage- some words will not be used
Faithful support for a friend is
The bad feeling of doing wrong is
10After their quarrel, Jack and Auggie become friends again. They —Pt.4
Part 2
Comprehension
How well do you understand Part Four (Jack)?
🧠Knowledge Bank · Cause and Effect in Jack’s Story
Narrative Logic · Cause and Effect in Jack’s Story
Part 4 is full of causes and effects: Jack’s Halloween words hurt Auggie; Summer’s clue brings regret; Julian’s cruelty leads to the punch. Trace how one action leads to the next. Jack’s Side: Jack reveals he was first asked to befriend Auggie but grew to truly like him. Regret: Summer’s clue makes Jack realize Auggie overheard him at Halloween. The Punch: Jack hits Julian for insulting Auggie and is suspended. The War: Julian’s group begins leaving cruel notes for Jack and Auggie. Jack Will explains his side of things. Mr. Tushman first asked him to befriend Auggie, and Jack was nervous — but he came to genuinely like him. When Summer’s clue makes Jack realize Auggie overheard him at Halloween, he is filled with regret.
The unstated link is supported by careful inference.
1Why did Jack first agree to be friendly toward Auggie?Pt.4
2Jack ends up genuinely liking Auggie.Pt.4
3What makes Jack realize Auggie overheard him at Halloween?Pt.4
4How does Jack feel once he understands what he did?Pt.4
5Put these events from Part 4 in the correct order. Write 1–4 (1 = first).Pt.4
Jack grows to truly like Auggie.
Summer’s clue reveals Jack’s Halloween mistake.
Jack punches Julian and is suspended.
Mr. Tushman asks Jack to befriend Auggie.
6Jack punches Julian for insulting Auggie.Pt.4
7What is Jack’s punishment for the fight?Pt.4
8What does Julian’s group do after Jack and Auggie become friends again?Pt.4
9Jack and Auggie reconcile and become real friends.Pt.4
10What does Jack come to understand about his earlier behavior?Pt.4
Part 3
Literary Elements
Understanding HOW and WHY R.J. Palacio writes Part Four (Jack) the way she does.
🧠Knowledge Bank · Conflict, Flashback, and Climax
Literary Technique · Conflict, Flashback, and Climax
Palacio shows Jack’s internalconflict (fitting in versus doing right), uses flashback to explain the past, and builds to a climax when Jack finally punches Julian. Ethics — consequence and forgiveness: Jack is suspended AND forgiven — the book holds both; a ready debate: can a punishment be deserved and a person still be good? Language — the grammar of apology: linguists find real apologies NAME the act and OWN it without “if” or “but” — Jack’s repair of the friendship follows the formula exactly. Jack and Auggie make up and become true friends — but Julian’s group starts a quiet war of nasty notes against them. Jack betrays Auggie to fit in — the pull the famous Asch experiments measured, when most people sided with an obviously wrong group rather than stand alone.
Sentence and scene arrangement determine its pacing.
📚 Literary Devices in This Part · definitions & examples
Internal conflict is a struggle inside a character’s own mind. Jack struggles between fitting in with the crowd and doing what is right.A flashback is a scene that jumps back to an earlier time. Jack looks back to explain how he first met and befriended Auggie.The climax is the most intense, turning-point moment of a story. In Part 4, it is the moment Jack punches Julian.
The questions below are mixed — not grouped by device. Decide which device each one is about.
1Jack struggling inside himself between fitting in and doing right is —Pt.4
2A flashback shows events from earlier than the main moment.Pt.4
3Fill in the blanks with the correct words.Pt.4
Word choices:climaxturningflashbacksetting- some words will not be used
The most intense moment of a story is the
A climax is a big
4Jack looking back to explain why he first befriended Auggie is a —Pt.4
5A climax is a high, turning-point moment of a story.Pt.4
6Fill in the blanks with the correct words.Pt.4
Word choices:internalconflictsettingclimax- some words will not be used
A struggle inside the mind is an
This kind of inner struggle is a
7The most intense moment — Jack punching Julian — is the —Pt.4
8Internal conflict is a struggle inside a character’s own mind.Pt.4
9Fill in the blanks with the correct words.Pt.4
Word choices:flashbackearlierclimaxsetting- some words will not be used
A scene that jumps back in time is a
A flashback shows events from
10The punch is the loudest moment of Jack’s part — but his real turning point happened earlier and quietly. Which moment, and why?Part 4
Part 4
Think Deeper
Four deeper challenges — no single-word recall. Read, weigh the evidence, and reason it through.
🧠Knowledge Bank · Mistakes and Second Chances
Ethical Reasoning · Mistakes and Second Chances
Jack does something hurtful but earns Auggie’s forgiveness. Palacio lets a likeable character make a real mistake because moral growth is not about being perfect; it is about recognizing harm, accepting consequences, and choosing better. Jack’s part shows that a good person can still do something hurtful — and then put it right. Palacio writes the social pressure of middle school honestly: Jack wants to belong, fears Julian’s judgment, and must learn that kindness costs something when the crowd is cruel. Internal Conflict: A struggle that happens inside a character’s own mind. Flashback: A scene that jumps back to an earlier time. Climax: The most intense, turning-point moment of a story. In winter, when Julian mocks Auggie once too often, Jack punches him and is suspended.
That conflict belongs to the field of ethics.
1Claim: “Jack truly regrets hurting Auggie.” — choose the two details that best prove it.Claim & Evidence
2Does it hurt or heal the friendship? Tap each item to send it left or right.Sort into two
◄ Hurts itHeals it ►
3Match each cause to its result. For each cause, pick its result.Cause & Effect
Jack doesn’t recognize Auggie’s costume→
Auggie overhears him at Halloween→
Summer’s whispered clue reaches Jack→
Jack takes Auggie’s side against Julian→
4Fill both blanks to complete the reasoning.Build the Argument
Jack punches Julian because , which shows that being a true friend can mean .
Part 5
Standardized Test · Inference & Author’s Purpose
Part 4 trains the two “reading between the lines” skills — Inference (what must be true even if unstated) and Author’s Purpose (why a detail is there) — plus Vocabulary in Context and Factual Detail, in the styles the SAT and TOEFL use. Read the passage (the highlighted words are tested below), then choose the answer best supported by the text.
🎓Knowledge Bank · Reading Between the Lines
Test Skills · Part 4An Inference question asks what the passage proves without saying: find the clue sentences, then choose the answer they force to be true — never the one that just “sounds possible.” A Purpose question asks what job a sentence does: is it an example? a contrast? a hook? Try reading the paragraph without that sentence — whatever went missing is the purpose. Both skills reward slowing down at the exact lines the question points to.
In the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch ran one of the most famous experiments ever devised. He showed groups of students two cards: one with a single line, one with three lines of obviously different lengths. The task was almost insultingly easy — say which line matched. But there was a trick: every person in the group except one was an actor, and on certain rounds the actors deliberately gave the same wrong answer, one after another, before the real subject’s turn came. The results startled the world.
Three out of four subjects chose to conform at least once — they publicly named a line they could SEE was wrong, simply because the majority had named it first. Interviews afterward revealed two pressures at work: the fear of standing out (“they will think something is wrong with me”), and creeping self-doubt — “can seven people really be mistaken?” The pressure was strongest when the group was unanimous — when not a single voice disagreed. But Asch’s most hopeful discovery is the least famous — when he planted just ONE actor who answered honestly, the spell broke: with a single ally in the room, subjects’ wrong answers collapsed to a quarter of what they had been. One visible dissenter — even a stranger — freed nearly everyone else to trust their own eyes; courage, the experiment suggests, is not just a private virtue. It is contagious.
Original passage written for Garden Heights — not a quotation from the novel.
1As used in the passage, the word “deliberately” most nearly means —SAT · Words in Context
2In the passage, the word “conform” is closest in meaning to —TOEFL · Vocabulary
3According to the passage, what task were the subjects given?TOEFL · Factual Information
4According to the passage, how many subjects conformed at least once?TOEFL · Factual Information
5As used in the passage, the word “unanimous” most nearly means —SAT · Words in Context
6According to the passage, what were the TWO pressures the interviews revealed?TOEFL · Factual Information
7The passage most strongly suggests that a student who laughs at a cruel joke may be —TOEFL · Inference
8Insert Text (TOEFL). Look at the four squares [1]–[4] in the passage excerpt below. They show where the following sentence could be added: “The subjects were not confused about the lines; they were afraid of the room.”
[1] Three out of four subjects chose to conform at least once — they publicly named a line they could SEE was wrong, simply because the majority had named it first. [2] Interviews afterward revealed two pressures at work: the fear of standing out, and creeping self-doubt. [3] The pressure was strongest when the group was unanimous — when not a single voice disagreed. [4]
Where would the sentence fit best?TOEFL · Insert Text
9According to the passage, what happened when one actor answered honestly?TOEFL · Factual Information
10Which statement best expresses the central idea of the passage?SAT · Central Ideas
Part 6 · Optional
Creative Writing
A bonus challenge to practice your English.
About This Section
This writing task is optional and not part of your auto-graded score. Feedback checks length, spelling, and grammar only.
Writing Task — Part 4 “Jack’s Apology”
Write the apology Jack would give Auggie, OR describe a time you had to admit you were wrong. Use the idea of internal conflict — show the struggle inside. Write at least 40 words.
You can start with: “I kept practicing the words in my head, because I knew that what I’d said had hurt him, and…”
0 / 40 words minimum
🗣 Teach It · Just for Fun (optional)
No right or wrong — close the screen and tell someone nearby what happened in this part. Can’t find anyone? Tell yourself out loud. The moment you teach it, you truly understand it.
