I am David: Anticipation Guide!Name: ________________

Chapter 1

An anticipation guide is meant to help you engage with a story you are reading. It lets you think and make reasonable predictions about what might happen later in a narrative. Like a hypothesis, an anticipation guide should be based on what is already known about the characters and the story of a work of fiction.

Answer the following questions about chapter 1. Then, make predictions about what you believe is coming next in the story. Anticipate what is going to happen!

1. List three things you know about Davids as a character (traits as well as physical characteristics) and support these assessments with evidence from the book.

i. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ii. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________iii. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. List two major events from the first chapter of the book:

i. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ii. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. What unresolved issues remain at the end of the first chapter? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________150+ words: Anticipate what might happen to David in the rest of the novel. Be sure to make good inferences based on what has happened to David so far and also on what you know about Davids character.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________