A Teaching Unit
For
Bud, Not Buddy
By Christopher Paul Curtis
Bud, Not Buddy Table of Contents
Chapter
Activity Focus
Activity matches Common Core
State Standard(s)
Page Number
Pre-Reading Activity
4
Chapter Title Analysis
CCSS 6RL-2, 7RL-2, 8RL-2
5
1
Who is Bud? Piece it Together
CCSS 6RL-1, 7RL-1, 8RL-1
6
2
Point of View
CCSS 7RL-6
7
3
Flashback, Imagery
CCSS 6RL-5
8
4
Figurative Language
CCSS 6RL-4, 7RL-4, 8RL-4, 6W-10,
7W-10, 8W-10
9
5
All About Momma
~Characterization
CCSS 6RL-1, 7RL-1, 8RL-1
10
6
Irony
CCSS 8RL-6
11
Test 1
Test Chapters 1-6
*
12
7
Imagery
CCSS 6RL-5, 6W-3d, 7W-3d, 8W-3d
16
8
Discussion
CCSS 6RL-1, 7RL-1, 8RL-1
17
9
Understanding and Analyzing
Extended Metaphor
CCSS 6RL-4, 7RL-4, 8RL-4
18
10
Onomatopoeia
CCSS 6RL-4, 7RL-4, 8RL-4
19
11
Indirect and Direct
Characterization
CCSS 6RL-4, 7RL-4, 8RL-4
20
12
Suspense
CCSS 6RL-5
21
Test 2
Test Chapters 7-12
*
22
13
Writing Opportunity
CCSS 6W-10, 7W-10, 8W-10
26
13&14
Indirect Characterization
CCSS 6RL-1, 7RL-1, 8RL-1
27
15
Conflict
CCSS 6RL-1, 7RL-1, 8RL-1, 6RL-3,
7RL-3, 8RL-3
29
16
Nicknames
30
17
Extended Metaphor
CCSS 6RL-4, 7RL-4, 8RL-4
31
18
Capitalization Rule, Comma
Rule
CCSS 6L-2, 7L-2, 8L-2
32
19
Symbolism
CCSS 6RL-1, 7RL-1, 8RL-1
33
19
Readers’ Theater
CCSS 6SL-1, 7SL-1, 8SL-1
34
Final Test
*
38
Post Reading Activities
Title of Activity
Page Number
The ABCs of Bud Not Buddy
42
Bud, Not Buddy Mottos
43
Bud, Not Buddy Rules and Things
44
Answer Keys
45
* Many Common Core State Standard (CCSS)
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Bud, Not Buddy
After Chapter 3
Name___________________ Date______________
Flashback – When a character remembers something from the past
Find the flashback that Bud has on page twenty-three.
1. What is the flashback about?_______________________________________
2. What causes Bud to have this flashback?_____________________________
3. What words signal the flashback?____________________________________
Imagery
– language that creates a sensory impression within the reader’s mind
Imagery consists of words and phrases that appeal to readers’ senses. Writers use sensory
details to help readers imagine how things look, feel, smell, sound, and taste. In this chapter,
Christopher Paul Curtis uses a great deal of imagery when Bud hits the hornet nest in the shed.
This imagery helps develop the setting.
Go back and reread the bottom of page twenty-seven through twenty-nine.
Complete the following chart as you analyze the imagery on these pages.
Passage, sentence or words
that create imagery
Sense that this appeals to
Is there figurative language
used? If so, what type?
Bud, Not Buddy
After Chapter 4
Name___________________ Date______________
Use the following chart to analyze the figurative language in this chapter. In
the box labeled “My own”, write your own sentence using this type of
figurative language. Try to make your figurative language original.
Passage
Type of Figurative
Language
What is being
compared or what
does this mean?
My own
…then I was inside
the Amos house
crouched down like
a cat burglar. (31)
My heart started
jumping around in
my stomach as
soon as I reached
out for the
shotgun. (32)
Todd’s bed stayed
as dry as the
desert. (34)
If J. Edgar Hoover
and the FBI saw
me now I’d be in
some real serious
hot water! (35)
Discussion:
Bud says that his favorite saying in the whole world is “He who laughs last laughs
best.” Do you agree with this saying? Explain what this statement means and why
you agree or disagree with it.
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Bud, Not Buddy
After Chapter 6
Name___________________ Date______________
Irony (There are three types of irony.)
Verbal irony involves a contrast between what is said or written and what is meant. Example: if
you call a really tall person, “Shorty”
Situational irony occurs when what happens is very different from what is expected to happen.
Example: A man who has been afraid to fly in a plane all of his life finally gets the courage to
do it, and then the plane crashes.
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience or the reader knows something a character does not
know. Example: The reader knows who the criminal is, but the characters do not know.
After reading the definitions of the three types of irony, complete the following chart.
Read each passage, decide which of the three types of irony is used, and then explain how
you know that the type of irony you chose is correct.
Passage
Type of irony used
Explanation - What is ironic
about this?
The main thing people were talking
about was the great big sign that was
hanging over the building. It showed
a gigantic picture of four rich white
people sitting in a car driving
somewhere. …They all had big shiny
teeth and big shiny eyes and big
shiny cheeks, and big shiny smiles.
…You could tell they were rich ‘cause
the car looked like it had room for
eight or nine more people in it and
‘cause they had movie star clothes
on. The woman was wearing a coat
with a hunk of fur around the neck
and the man was wearing a suit and
tie and the kids looked like they were
wearing ten-dollar-apiece jackets.
Writ about their car in fancy letters
it said, THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE
AMERICA TODAY!
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