Sing down the moon Novel Study
Prelude / Pre-Thought What do you think the story is about? Do you think you will enjoy the novel? Defend your answer!
Chapter 1 How did you leave the sheep? What did your mother do? How did you feel afterwards?
Chapter 2 How did Running Bird and White Deer try to provoke you? How did you feel?
Chapter 3 Why were you and your tribe so frightened of the Long Knives?
Chapter 4 What were you daydreaming about? What interrupted your dreaming?
Chapter 5 What did your tribe, the Navahos, believe about wolves? Do you agree or disagree with your tribe?
Chapter 6 Why did the Spaniards let you keep your dog? What are your feelings and thoughts about what is happening?
Chapter 7 Describe the differences between your REAL home and your new home with the Spaniards.
Chapter 8 Compare the very different advice Nehana and Rosita gave. Who do you want to listen to?
Chapter 9 Describe what happened in the church of the Penitentes. What were you feeling?
Chapter 10 In what way do the girls try to escape the Spaniards? What are you feeling?
Chapter 11 Whom did you meet on the trail? What did he tell you to do? What are your thoughts and feelings?
Chapter 12 How did everyone act toward Tall Boy’s injury and why did they act that way? How did it make you feel?
Chapter 13 Describe the Womanhood Ceremony.
Chapter 14 What announcement made the Navaho hide, and what did you do in hiding?
Chapter 15 What did the Long Knives do to your village? Why didn’t you fight back?
Chapter 16 Why did the Navaho go down from the mesa? What happened to you there?
Chapter 17 How did Bright Morning come to carry the little girl? What did everyone think of you doing this?
Chapter 18 Describe how Bright Morning and Little Rainbow found each other.
Chapter 19 What was “the preacher’s story”? How did it make you feel?
Chapter 20 Describe your wedding. Describe Tall Boy during the ceremony.
Chapter 21 How did you plan for a trip to the canyon? Why did two soldiers take Tall Boy to the fort?
Chapter 22 TALL BOY POINT OF VIEW: How did you escape from the soldiers? What were you feeling?
Chapter 23 What did you show your son? Describe Hidden Canyon and how you are feeling.
Postlude: After-Thoughts Complete the anticipation guide on the back cover. Write a minimum of two paragraphs explaining how your thoughts, ideas, and opinions changed from the anticipation guide before the story and after the story. If they did not change, write about how they didn’t change.