Teacher's Guide

Teacher’s Guide in process. I welcome recommendations from teachers and educators who read Meridian’s Heart and who can help develop this section as a teaching aid. Please use the Contract button at the top right hand of the website to send me your recommendations. Thanks, Michael Schreiber

Meridian's Heart offers multiple questions to engage students in learning and analyzing a story and how  an author applies everyday situations and events into a storyline. The guiding questions posed herein have been developed to encourage students to read a chapter and then have the opportunity to answer questions...many which are open ended  with no right answer. The success of this guide will be based on students responses.

Chapter One-Flying Solo

Q1-Meridian makes a quick decision to rescue her friend, Holly Timberlake. Write a paragraph on a situation in your life that required quick thinking to resolve or address a problem. 

Q2-Meridian is facing the first of several Flight Certification tests and is nervous. Write a paragraph or two on a time in your life where you were nervous and how did you feel. Do you remember how you managed your nerve?

Q3-Both Meridian's and Holly's mom have pressured them on the importance of passing Flight Certification. Have their been times when your mother or father put pressure on you to succeed? Was their advice useful? Should they have handle it a different way, and if yes how?

Q4-Meridian on page 6 tells Holly: "Keep a clear mind and you will be fine." Do you have any favorite saying or a line from a song that you enjoy? Maybe for the words...maybe how they rhyme...or sound?

Q5-Page 7-Who were Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, the Cottingley cousins and what made them famous? 

Q6-Page 10-Tooth fairy collection specialist have an overarching rule: Never use or attempt magic on Earth. If you had to make one rule that a friend could never break or it might end your friendship, what would that rule be and why?

Chapter Two[-The Black King

Q1-