The Pigman/The Pigman's Legacy
Two contemporary high school students in New York explore loneliness, peer pressure, loss, and friendship. Paul Zindel’s books, The Pigman and The Pigman’s Legacy, do far more than encourage young adults to read for enjoyment. They offer opportunities to recognize and understand that although the path to adulthood is difficult, it need not always be a lonely or unhappy migration.
The two main characters from The Pigman continue to mature, realizing that the Pigman gave them new awareness of their feelings for others and themselves. Themes include loneliness, friendship, love, and the passage from childhood to adult responsibility. Paul Zindel’s books, The Pigman and The Pigman’s Legacy, do far more than encourage young adults to read for enjoyment. They offer opportunities to recognize and understand that although the path to adulthood is difficult, it need not always be a lonely or unhappy migration.
About the Series:
Novel/Drama curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with plot summary, background, and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These study guides encourage the development of thinking, reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Literary Form
American Novel
Student Activities
Students build vocabulary, study character development and point of view, examine inferences, research, and role-play. They also focus on loneliness as a major theme, write letters to an advice columnist, and use the events in the story to explore human relationships, particularly the skill of listening and the relationship between self-esteem and caring about others.
Supplementary materials include a test with character identification, short answer, and essay questions. An answer key is provided.
Ethical Values
- Compassion
- Integrity
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Truth