Your job is to write down questions your group can discuss.

• 1 Narrative
• 1 Setting
• 1 MCEOG

MCEOG
1.  All of the following are ways the animals talked to Billie Wind except
     which one?
    A.  The mosquitoes were telling her to sleep low on the ground.
    B.  Petang said they could not be apart until he was grown.
    C.  The hawk was saying life was returning to the island.
    D.  The ibis told her the grass was green and fire hadn't reached
          Panther Paw.
 
 

    Your job is to choose passages from this chapter that you and your group and discuss.
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1.    -
2.    p. 55 par. 3
3.    A cry...dead things.
4.    I chose this passage because it is very descriptive of physical surroundings
       and mood of Billie Wind.
5.    Q:  How did Billie Wind's mood change in this paragraph at the sight
            of butterflies?
       A:  From sorrowful to hopeful.
6.    Author's Purpose:  To describe and set mood.
 
 

    Your job is to find an interesting character from this section.  List the trait, then list actions that prove this trait.  List page and paragraphs numbers.
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Billie Wind

Trait - anxious (p.65)
Action - Billie Wind saw bulldozers and wanted them to stop destroying the land.  She even forgot about Petang she was so worried.  She could not get the log boat into the water.
 
 

 Choose 4 words from the following:

• render p. 53 par. 1
• iridescent p. 55 par. 3
• bromeliad p. 60 l. 8
• writhed p. 63 par. 5
• inquisitive p. 66 par. 7
• annoyance p. 66 par. 8
• buoyant p. 67 par. 5
• palmettos p. 70 par. 4
• caterwauled p. 73 par. 1

1.    buoyant  p. 67 par. 5
2.    Billie Wind chopped the log and shaped its ends so that it would be
       buoyant like a leaf.
3.    Look the word up in a dictionary.
4     buoyant - capable of floating
5.    adjective
6.    The buoyant soap was dissolving in the bathtub.
7.    (word wizard card)

 
 

    Your job is to investigate the destruction of the Everglades and Man versus Nature in this ecosystem.

Great web site for kids and teachers:
www.nps.gov/ever/home.htm

Tells about the destruction of the Everglades and also leads to other web sites that could be helpful in this investigation.
www.eng.fiu.edu/cegrad/enp002.htm
 
 

    Sketch and color iridescent butterflies.  Cut out and tape to classroom windows.

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