Worksheet
Waiting for Juniper
Read a graphic novel page about a boy waiting for his homing pigeon and explain how the pictures add to the story's meaning, mood and beauty.
Grade 5ELAInteractive · Printable
Aligned toRL.5.7
What’s included
- Single worksheet
- Auto-graded online
- 1 Common Core standard
- Printable answer key
- 10 questions
- Classroom-ready
Details
- Format
- Interactive · Printable
- Grade
- Grade 5
- Subject
- ELA
- Question types
- Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer
About this worksheet
What students practice
- Students explain how panel size, close-ups and color add to the meaning and mood of a graphic novel.
- Students tell what the pictures of a graphic novel show that its words do not.
How to use
Read each panel description aloud and have students sketch or picture the panel before reading the words. Then let them answer on their own and share answers to the last question.
Curriculum
Common Core standard covered
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements, such as in a graphic novel, add to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text.
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Waiting for Juniper
See how the pictures in a graphic novel add to its words.
Read the graphic novel page
This is one page from a graphic novel. Each numbered paragraph is one panel. It tells what the picture shows, and then it gives the words in the panel.
Waiting for Juniper
1Picture: A wide panel stretches across the whole top of the page. It shows a city at sunrise from high above: rows of rooftops, water towers and chimneys under a pale gray sky. On one flat roof, Omar and his grandfather, Jiddo, stand beside a small wooden pigeon coop. They look tiny in the big city.
Caption: Before dawn, Jiddo's pigeon club drove the young birds far out into the country and set them free. Now each bird had to find its own way home.
2Picture: A close-up of Omar's face fills the whole panel. His eyebrows are pinched together, and he is biting his lip. Behind him, the sky is pale gray.
Speech balloon (Omar): "What if Juniper can't find our roof?"
3Picture: Jiddo sits on an upside-down bucket, sipping tea from a small glass. His shoulders are relaxed, and he is smiling as he points one finger at the sky.
Speech balloon (Jiddo): "A pigeon remembers its home. Just watch the sky."
4Picture: A small, narrow panel shows nothing but empty sky above the rooftops. The sun is high and white now. There are no words in this panel.
5Picture: The sky has begun to turn orange. Omar grips the low wall at the edge of the roof with one hand and points out over the city with the other. Far away, above the water towers, there is a dark speck so small that a reader has to search the panel to find it.
Speech balloon (Omar), in huge, bold letters: "JIDDO! LOOK!"
6Picture: This is the largest panel on the page. Juniper swoops down toward the coop with her wings spread wide. Every feather is drawn with care, and the evening light turns her gray wings silver and gold. Curved lines stream out behind her.
Sound effect, in tall, curving letters across the sky: FWOOOSH
7Picture: Omar holds Juniper gently against his chest, and Jiddo rests a hand on Omar's shoulder. Omar's eyes are closed, and he is smiling. The whole panel glows with warm oranges and yellows.
Caption: Juniper had found her way home.
Speech balloon (Jiddo): "I told you. She remembers."
Pictures, mood and meaning
Use the panel descriptions and the words in the panels to answer each question.
- A. It shows that Omar and Jiddo live in a quiet country town.
- B. It shows that the coop is the tallest building in the city.
- C. It shows how hard it will be for Juniper to find one roof.
- D. It shows that Omar is afraid of standing on a high roof.
The pale gray sky in panels 1 and 2 helps create a mood. The warm oranges and yellows in panel 7 help create a mood.
A close-up of Omar's face fills the whole panel.His eyebrows are pinched together, and he is biting his lip.Behind him, the sky is pale gray.
- A. He is calm and sure that Juniper will come home.
- B. He is worried but is hiding it from Omar.
- C. He is bored and wants to go back inside.
- D. He is tired and wishes he could take a nap.
- A. It shows that Juniper has already landed in the coop.
- B. It makes the reader feel the long, quiet wait for Juniper.
- C. It shows that the city has become dark and stormy.
- D. It shows the place where Juniper was set free.
How the art adds to the words
Think about why the artist drew each panel the way it is drawn.
- the close-up of Omar's face in panel 2
- the tiny speck in panel 5
- the huge, bold letters of Omar's shout in panel 5
- the curved lines behind Juniper in panel 6
- A. shows that Juniper is flying fast
- B. makes the reader hunt the sky just as Omar does
- C. shows how loudly and excitedly Omar calls out
- D. lets the reader see Omar's worry up close
- A. to leave room for a long speech from Jiddo
- B. to show that Juniper is larger than other pigeons
- C. to fit a map that shows Juniper's whole route
- D. to show that Juniper's return is the page's biggest moment
- A. It shows that Juniper is hurt and tired from the trip.
- B. It shows that Juniper is not the bird Omar expected.
- C. It makes Juniper's return feel beautiful and almost magical.
- D. It makes the scene feel dark, cold and frightening.
| Shown in a picture | Told in the words |
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