Learn how one boy struggles to work his way out of his family's cursed, bad luck by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons. This instructional guide for literature is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this exciting story. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities were written to this story and incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more.