Gold - Novel Study

Gold, written by Pauline Cartwright, is a historical novel written as the diary of a 13 year old girl. It is set in 1862 in Otago, gold country. The gold rush in Otago during the 1860's was the largest gold rush in New Zealand and was responsible for Dunedin becoming a city. 
 
This novel study enables your students to read the novel in 3 weeks and will take 4-5 weeks to complete. Each of the 15 days has a reading based activities and a word from the text which students will find the definition for. There are also 3 follow up activities allowing your students to be creative and show their understanding of what they have read.