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How to Eat Fried Worms By Thomas Rockwell An Enrichment Project
Purpose for Reading Statement: How to Eat Fried Worms is a hilarious story of a boy named Billy and his bet with his friends. After reading about each worm, you will be asked to answer questions with your opinion and proofs from the story. While reading, pay attention to writing style, characters, plot, mood and theme.
Reminder Statement: Make sure you and your parents have signed the contract. Please head each Journal Entry with the Chapters Numerals and the Worm Number. Write neatly and clearly. Please Number Your Answers and skip spaces between answers. Use events or information from the stories to explain your thoughts. Do not go on to the next Performance Task until you have checked off the roster. Your teacher will then conference with you and may ask you to stretch your thinking and rework your answer. Each paragraph must accomplish its Performance Task with a rating of 3 or 4 on the Reading Rubric. Reminder Statement:
Choose one of the chapters to read aloud with your teacher and your group. Also choose a preferred method of Read Aloud to review this chapter.
Read Aloud Options:
Act Out Popcorn Fat/ Skinny Questions
Dramatic Reading Spirit Silly Sound Effects
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Chapter I: The Bet
Read Chapter I.
3. Write a paragraph which answers all of the following questions: What were the rules of the test? How long did he have to do it? What did Billy have to do? What did Alan have to do?
4. Write a paragraph that explains if you would be willing to eat 15 worms for $50.
5. What would you do for $50? Make a list five things. Please write your items in sentences.
Chapters II-IV: Worm #1 Read Chapters II-IV with a partner. BE CAREFUL—the boys are talking with accents! Read it out loud, pretending that you are in a fancy restaurant where they ONLY serve delicious worm!
1. Do you think it was fair for them to make Billy eat a night crawler? Use sentences from the book to prove that it was or was not fair. Write your answer in paragraph form.
2. Inside the cover of your journal, begin a list of ways that the boys cook the worm.
Complete it as follows: Worm Number Method of Preparation
Worm #1 Worm #2
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Chapters V-VI: Worm #2 Read the chapters to yourself.
1. Do you think Billy will eat all 15 worms? Prove your opinion by writing a paragraph with at least three reasons. We will share these so make sure they convince us.
2. Add to your list: How was worm #2 cooked?
Chapters VII-VIII: Worm #3 Read the chapters to yourself. 1. In a paragraph, explain why Tom is chanting “Fish, fish, fish, fish”. Why not “Orange, orange, orange, orange?”
2. Add to your list: How was worm #3 cooked? Chapters IX-X: Worm #4 Read the chapters to yourself.
1. How did Joe and Alan attempt to trick Billy? What did they do?
2. Add to your list: How was worm #4 cooked?
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Chapters XI-XII: Worm #5 Read the chapters to yourself.
1. Do you think it is getting easier or harder for Billy to eat the worms? Prove your opinion by quoting the text from Chapter XI-XII. Remember to write the page #.
2. Add to your list: How was worm #5 cooked? Chapters XIII-XVI: Worm #6 Read the chapters to yourself.
1. What happens that made Billy more comfortable about eating his worms? Be specific!
2. Add to your list: How was worm #6 cooked? Chapters XVII-XVIII: Worm #7 & #8 Read the chapters to yourself.
1. Worms #7 and #8 seem pretty easy for Billy to eat. Do you think Joe and Alan will try to trick him again? Write a paragraph that proves your opinion with three reasons.
2. How could they attempt to trick him? Use bullets to list three ways they could do it!
3. Add to your list.
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Chapters XIX: Worm #9 Read the chapters to yourself.
1. Who is right? Do you agree with Joe & Alan or Tom & Billy? Should cheating cancel the bet? Should Billy win? Write a paragraph that proves your opinion with three reasons.
2. Add to your list. Chapters XX-XXI: Worm #10 Read the chapters to yourself and complete your list.
1. How would your parents act if they found out YOU were eating worms? 2. Are Billy‟s parents like REAL parents? 3. Create a Venn diagram to compare your parents with Billy‟s parents. Make sure you have three details for each section. Chapters XXII: Worm #11 Read the chapters to yourself and complete your list. 1. Billy‟s mom makes a delicious new way to cook the worm. Write a REAL-LOOKING recipe for your own worm-dish: Wonderful Wormy Waffles. Research recipes by looking at a cookbook. List ingredients. Tell how to mix and cook them. Tell how many servings.
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Chapters XXIII-XXIV: Worm #12 Read the chapters to yourself and complete your list. 1. Explain Tom‟s joke on p.81. What is the capital of Ohio? Think about “capital” having to do with someone‟s personality! (What could you use to find out?)
Chapters XXV-XXVII: Worm #13 Read the chapters to yourself and complete your list.
1. Why did Billy use the loudspeaker to announce that he was eating Worm #13?
2. How would your neighbors act if you woke them up with a loudspeaker at 11:55 at night? In a paragraph list four things they might do.
Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII: Worm #14 and Trouble! Read the chapters to yourself and complete your list.
1. Why did Joe and Alan have to go to each of their neighbors and explain what happened? Would your parents make you do the same thing? Explain your opinion in a paragraph. 2. How did Billy‟s dad know that the letter was not real? Write the sentences from text that show this. 3. Create a Venn diagram to compare your parents with Billy‟s parents.
Chapters XIX: Worm #9 Read the chapters to yourself.
1. Who is right? Do you agree with Joe & Alan or Tom & Billy? Should cheating
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Chapters XXXIV-XL: Worm #15 Read the chapters to yourself and complete your list.
1. How did Billy know that the first last worm was a fake? What gave it away? 2. Do you agree or disagree with Billy‟s parents sending him to his room? Was it fair? Prove your opinion in a paragraph.
Chapter XLI: Epilogue Read the chapters to yourself and complete your list. 1. What do you think “epilogue” means? Write a definition for it.
2. Do you think that you could get used to eating worms? Write a paragraph that gives three reasons for your answer.
When you are finished, read over your answers for the whole book. Then ask your teacher for a “Frying Pan Project Contract.”
Congratulations! You finished the book!