Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
Lesson plans and teaching resources

Cold Sassy Tree
A variety of reading strategies, including a prereading activity and vocabulary support. Adobe Reader needed for access.

Cold Sassy Tree Learn It Guide. Adobe Reader required for these resources.

• Introductory Material
  Author biography, background information, character list, vocabulary words.
• Chapters 1-16 Worksheet
  Students work with descriptive language, mapping words, and making predictions.
• Chapters 17-29
  Students work with cause and effect, vocabulary, and making predictions.
• Chapters 30-41
  Students analyze characterization, map words, and make predictions.
• Chapters 42-50
  Students consider the novel as a bildungsroman , work with context clues, and think beyond the novel.
• Characterization Graphic Organizer
  Students work with inference and indirect characterization.
• Setting Graphic Organizer
  Students compare and contrast Cold Sassy and Mill Town.
• Structure Graphic Organizer
  Students analyze the relationship between journeys and character development.
• Theme Graphic Organizer
  Students details changes that relate to theme.
• Whole-Novel Discussion and Activities
  6 discussion questions and 5 post-reading activities.
• Multiple Choice Test
  10 questions.

The Hat Connection
This unit plan uses hats to connect literature, business, and history.

Suggestions for Pairing Contemporary Music and Canonical Literature
A list of songs that were inspired by reading literature. Organized by the last name of the author (e.g. Chinua Achebe, William Butler Yeats), the list includes song title, performer, year of release, and more. The list includes 6 songs inspired by Cold Sassy Tree .

Vocabulary List
A list of 115 words drawn from Chapter 1 of the novel. Each word is listed in the sentence in which it appears.