Freckle Juice is a relatable and entertaining chapter book, appropriate for students in grades 1-3. Award winning author, Judy Blume, tells a hilarious story about wanting to be different. The main character, Andrew Marcus, will do just about anything to have freckles like his classmate Nicky Lane. When a classmate offers to sell Andrew a recipe for a concoction called "freckle juice", he wants some immediately.
Freckle Juice Lesson Plans - Plot diagram graphic organizer - Freckle Juice Summary
Storyboard Text
BEGINNING
Life would be so much better if I just had freckles, like Nicky Lane!
BEGINNING
Task of the Day: Offer someone help!
Andrew, I have the secret recipe for freckles! It'll only cost you 50 cents.
Andrew Marcus dreams of having freckles like Nicky Lane. If he had freckles, he wouldn't have to wash his neck! Then, he wouldn't be late for school.
MIDDLE
This smells awful! Just plain awful! I'll show Sharon. She probably thought I wouldn't be able to drink it.
Sharon convinces Andrew to buy her secret recipe for freckle juice.
MIDDLE
Oh Andrew! Are you okay? I saw that mess in the kitchen! You are going to bed!
Andrew rushes home to make the freckle juice! He gulps it down, and hopes it will work.
Andrew gets sicker and sicker. After being sent to bed, he dreams of Sharon and freckles. He decides he can't let Sharon get away with it. He'll just draw freckles on!
END
Remember, it's a secret formula! You are a handsome boy without freckles.
LESSON FOR TODAY: READING
END
LESSON FOR TODAY: READING
Nicky, if you want to get rid of your freckles, I have a secret recipe. It's been in my family for years. It'll only cost you 50 cents.
Miss Kelly offers Andrew her secret recipe for removing freckles for free. Nicky Lane wishes he could use the freckle remover too!
Sharon tries to sell a secret recipe for removing freckles to Nicky Lane.