Discussion Director
Your job is to write down questions
that your group can talk about.
-1 Prediction
-1 Mood (on your own)
-1 Problem/Solution (on your own)
-1 Cause/Effect (on your own)
-1 Characters (on your own)
Prediction
1. What do you predict will happen
to Walter in the last section of the book? Answer: He may go to join
the CCC, or his father may decide that he does not have to go.
Passage Picker
Your job is to pick passages from
this section that you and your group can talk about. Choose passages that
satisfies these 4 reasons:
-Humorous
-Confusing (on your own)
-Descriptive (on your own)
-Intriguing (on your own)
1. Humorous
a. Page 50, Paragraph 6
b. "Curtis and...underwear showing."
c. I chose this passage because
that I thought it offered a bit of humor in an otherwise sad story.
d. Which character fell and split
his britches? Answer: Curtis
e. Authors Purpose: To entertain
Character Sketcher
Your job is to find an interesting
character from this section. You will find three words that describe
the character. For each word, or character trait, you willl give
the proof, or example (including the page and paragraph).
The next thing you will do is tell
one of you character's goals, or what the character wants to do
in this section.
Then you will find one of the character's
problems
in the section and the solution or possible solution to the problem.
Finally, you get to have fun and
illustrate your character!
Wanda
Character Traits:
1. page 30, paragraph 1
embarrassed
2. page 33, paragraph 5
surprised
3. page 44, last paragraph
worried
Word Wizard
Choose 4 words from the list below.
-pod -page 27, line 2
-clumsily -page 28, paragraph 5
-luncheonette -page 32, line 5
-licorice -page 37, last paragraph
-chaperones -page 38, last paragraph
-penknife -page 49, line 5
1. clumsily (page 28, paragraph
5)
a. "I got up clumsily, and Ida
put her arm around me."
b. clumsily - lacking dexterity,
nimbleness, or grace
c. clumsily - a word that
describes someone who acts ungraceful or awkwardly
d. adjective
e. My friend clumsily fell off
of the monkey bars during recess.
Connector
Your job is to connect the book your group is reading to the outside world. This means asking yourself these questions and writing a paragraph about one or more of them.
-Does this part
of the story remind you of any other story or book you have read or heard?
Explain.
-Does this part
of the story remind you of anything that has happened to you, a friend,
or a
family member?
Explain.
-Does this part
of the story reming you of a movie or television show you have seen? Explain.
In your paragraph, be sure to include who or what your connection is about, where and when it happened, what happened, and how it connects or deals with the part of the story you were reading.