When You Trap a Tiger - Literature Kit Gr. 3-4

Use your imagination to help work through difficult things and grow as a person in the process. The questions in this resource helps to keep students engaged while reading the novel. Put yourself in the mind of Lily’s halmoni to imagine an alternative ending to the tiger story. Speculate how Sam feels about being in Halmoni’s house. Put events that take place the night Lily meets with the tiger in the correct order. Come up with two ways that Lily could help her halmoni. Create a mini-book about the Korean tradition of the kosa. Make connections between scenes from the novel and your own life. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, our worksheets incorporate a variety of scaffolding strategies along with additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key. About the Novel: When You Trap a Tiger is told from the point of view of an eight-year-old third generation Korean-American. Lily lives with her older sister and their mother. After learning of their grandmother’s illness, Lily’s mother moves the family back to her childhood home to be closer to their halmoni, a Korean word for grandmother. Lily loves visiting her halmoni. They make delicious Korean dishes and listen to her Korean folklore stories. On their way, Lily sees a magical tiger in the road. When she tells her halmoni of what she sees, Lily is warned to stay away from the tiger. Long ago, back in Korea, Lily’s halmoni stole stories from the tiger, and now it’s back to collect. The story follows Lily’s struggle to break out of her shell as she deals with the impending reality of her grandmother’s death.