Discussion Director:

Directions:
Your job is to make up five questions dealing with this section.  Your questions should include ideas about Author's purpose, characters, MCEOG, figurative language, and Author's style.

Passage Picker:

Directions:
Your job is to pick four passages from this section.  The reasons for picking your passages are:

• Dialect
• Funny/Amusing
• Controversial
• Interesting

Directions:  Your job is to find the following words in this section.  Write the sentence the word appears in and give a definition of the word.  Then, make up a sentence using the word in it.

• Insolently
• Contorted
• Wafted
• Pungent

Directions:
Do a character sketcher of Meg.  List three traits that describe her and give reasons as to why you chose those traits.  Also, state her goals, problems, and solutions.

Active Activator:

Directions:
Your job is to design a graphic organizer to along with the story.  Examples include:

• Story map
• K-W-L (knowledge of content, want to know, learned)
• Plot chart
• Character map
• Venn diagram

Character Map:  Hank
Looks:  tall, lanky, and about 14 (page 32, par. 2)
Acts:  demanding to Will and Meg when he asks for their fish (page 34, par. 3).
          boastful when he brags about being the best thrower (page 156, par. 13).
          scared of his pa because he has a really bad temper (page 56, par. 7).
Likes:  looking at Will's buttons (page 69, par.1)
           throwing better and running faster than anyone else (page 153, par. 12)
           hearing stories from Will about the Civil War (page 70, par. 3)
Dislikes:  getting whipped from his dad (page 143, par. 9)