The Talking Earth
by Jean Craighead George

Section 8 (Chapter 8  pages 128 -143)
(Suggested information to be used for each role.)

Discussion Director
1 Problem/Solution
2 Cause/Effect
1 Dialogue
1 Setting

Passage Picker
*Metaphor
*Descriptive language
*Simile and Personification in same paragraph.

Word Wizard
p. 128 par. 3    strenuous
p. 139 par. 5    avalanched
p. 138 par. 2    relentless
p. 142 par. 6    expulsion
p. 142 par. 8    deluged
p. 135 par. 4    peripheral

Character Sketcher
Oats
determined
anxious

Billie Wind
brave
knowledgeable

Investigator
Write an investigative report of hurricanes.  Choose one destructive hurricane and concentrate on it.

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