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Anne of Green Gables in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule

A five-week plan for reading Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, one section a week. Each week gives the reading, a short summary of what happens, three discussion questions and the escape room that goes with it. For grades 6–9, in class or at home.

Pacing

Logic-stage readers (grades 6–9) can usually manage a section a week on their own, reading a few chapters most days. Use the questions to move from what happened to why it happened: motives, causes and consequences. A long section can take two weeks without spoiling the plan.

Each week ends with an escape room on that week's reading: seven self-checking locks that run in any browser, with no logins, and progress is saved, so a room can be finished another day. Every room has free taster locks to try, and members can open them all.

Print this schedule Escape rooms on Anne of Green Gables

Week 1: Chapters 1–8

Read: Chapters 1–8

Mrs Rachel Lynde is astonished to hear that Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are adopting an orphan, and when Matthew drives to Bright River he finds a talkative girl instead of the boy they asked for. Anne spends a tearful first evening at Green Gables and tells her story, Marilla decides to keep her, and her bringing-up begins with her first prayer.

Discussion questions

1. Why does Matthew take to Anne so quickly?
2. What does Anne's way of talking show about her?
3. Why does Marilla decide to keep her?

Escape room: The Wrong Orphan (lockedlessons.com/rooms/anne-of-green-gables-chapters-1-8/)

Week 2: Chapters 9–16

Read: Chapters 9–16

Anne loses her temper with Mrs Lynde and has to apologise, and she makes a solemn vow of friendship with Diana Barry. Marilla's amethyst brooch goes missing just before a picnic, Anne starts school and quarrels with Gilbert Blythe, and Diana's visit to tea ends in disaster.

Discussion questions

1. Is Anne's apology to Mrs Lynde sincere?
2. Why does Anne confess to losing the brooch when she did not?
3. Why does Anne react so strongly when Gilbert teases her?

Escape room: Bosom Friends (lockedlessons.com/rooms/anne-of-green-gables-chapters-9-16/)

Week 3: Chapters 17–24

Read: Chapters 17–24

Anne competes with Gilbert at school while refusing to speak to him, and wins back Mrs Barry's favour on the night of the croup. She meets Aunt Josephine, frightens herself in the Haunted Wood, adores the new minister's wife, makes a disastrous layer cake, takes a dare on a roof and welcomes the new teacher, Miss Stacy.

Discussion questions

1. How does Anne's imagination get her into trouble?
2. Why does the night of the croup matter so much?
3. What makes Miss Stacy a good teacher?

Escape room: Scrapes and Rescues (lockedlessons.com/rooms/anne-of-green-gables-chapters-17-24/)

Week 4: Chapters 25–31

Read: Chapters 25–31

Matthew buys Anne a dress with puffed sleeves for Christmas, and the girls form a Story Club. Anne dyes her hair green by accident, is rescued by Gilbert when her boat sinks while she plays the Lily Maid, visits Charlottetown and joins the class preparing for Queen's.

Discussion questions

1. Why does Matthew's present mean so much?
2. Why does Anne refuse Gilbert's friendship after he rescues her?
3. How is Anne changing as she grows older?

Escape room: The Lily Maid (lockedlessons.com/rooms/anne-of-green-gables-chapters-25-31/)

Week 5: Chapters 32–38

Read: Chapters 32–38

Anne and Gilbert top the pass list for Queen's, Anne recites at the concert at the White Sands hotel, and she spends a year at Queen's and wins a prize. Then the bank fails, Matthew dies and Marilla's eyesight is in danger, and Anne gives up her plans to stay at Green Gables.

Discussion questions

1. Why does Anne give up her plans?
2. What does the bend in the road mean to Anne?
3. How have Anne and Marilla changed since the first chapters?

Escape room: Round the Bend (lockedlessons.com/rooms/anne-of-green-gables-chapters-32-38/)