Nanberry: Black Brother White - Novel Study for High Potential/Gifted Students

‘Nanberry: Black Brother White’ is a young adult novel by Australian author Jackie French. It is a fictional retelling of the amazing true story of Australia’s first surgeon and the boy he adopted. This novel study for students with high potential was created using Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy, the Frayer model for vocabulary development and the Williams model of curriculum differentiation.

There are questions for chapters as well as activities for students to complete once they’ve finished the novel. You may wish to allocate a certain number of each category of question (plot, characters, themes, and creative development) for students to complete according to time and ability. These sheets are designed to be glued into exercise books, or you can add blank lined pages to turn the sheets into a booklet for students.