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Because of Mr. Terupt — Rob Buyea
Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

Because of Mr. Terupt

a novel by Rob Buyea
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✦RBLevel 4 · Advanced ReadersUS Grade 5Lexile 560LAR (ATOS) 3.7 · First published 2010
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of Because of Mr. Terupt to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Yearling paperback (Random House Children’s Books), ISBN 9780375858246. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🔢 Math and Science in Room 12
Dollar Words, estimating by sampling, how plants make food, how snowflakes form and why spring days grow longer — the real lessons behind Mr. Terupt’s projects.
SUPPORTING
🤝 Hard Choices, Honest Answers
Taking responsibility, guilt and blame, standing up for others, and forgiveness — the questions a class faces after one terrible mistake.
SUPPORTING
📖 One Story, Seven Voices
How seven narrators share one school year, and how foreshadowing, turning points and an earned ending hold a novel together.
8-Part Novel Study
Choose a Part
VocabularyReading IntelligenceLiterary ElementsThink DeeperBig QuestionAcademic Reading Challenge
Progress
PT1
Part 1 · September
A New Teacher, Seven Voices
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PT2
Part 2 · October
The Plant Experiment
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PT3
Part 3 · November & December
The Collaborative Classroom
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PT4
Part 4 · January & February
The Snow Day
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PT5
Part 5 · March
Waiting for News
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PT6
Part 6 · April
Learning to Forgive
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PT7
Part 7 · May
The Long Day at the Hospital
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PT8
Part 8 · June
The Last Day of School
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