Discussion Director
Instructions: Your job is to write five questions from section 7 of your book.  Question types to use are: MCEOG, Figurative Language, Main Idea, and 2 you pick.  Make sure that you prove your answer by giving the page and paragraph number!  Also make sure you give the answer to your question.

MCEOG
1.

Figurative Language
2.

Main Idea
3.

Type you pick
4.

Type you pick
5.

Passage Picker
Instructions:  Your job is to choose 4 passages from section 7 of this book.  The types of passages to choose are:
Figurative Language, Surprising, Dialect, and Amusing.  Write down the page and paragraph number of the passage, the first and last two words of the passage, and the reason you chose this passage (make sure you explain why!).  Then, ask a question about your passage and give an answer.  Finally, write down the author's purpose (to descibe, to entertain, to inform, or to persuade).

Passage 1-Figurative Language
Page 202, paragraph 1

Passage 2-Surprising
Page 213, paragraph 2

Passage 3-Dialect
Page 187, paragraph 5

Passage 4-Amusing
Page 196, paragraph 6

Word Wizard
Instructions: Your job is to write down these 4 words: weakling, copacetic, embouchure, and prodigy.  Then write down the page and paragraph numbers each word is found in.  Copy the sentence from the book in which the word appears.  Then, look up the word in the dictionary and, using your context clues and the dictionary definition, write down in your own words the definition of the word.  Next, write down the correct part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb).  Make up a question and the answer or a sentence about the word that would help you to teach the word to your group.  Finally, make your word wizard card.  On the card, be sure to include in large print your word and the page and paragraph number.  On the other side of your card, include a picture, the word, and the definition.

1.  weakling-page 190, paragraph 3

2.  copacetic-page 192, paragraph 3

3.  embouchure-page 194, paragraph 1

4.  prodigy-page 196, paragraph 8

Character Sketcher
Instructions: Your job is to do a character sketch of Miss Thomas based on the seventh section of the book.  You will find 3 character traits that describe her, and prove it by giving an example, including the page and paragraph number.  Then, you will tell one of her goals.  The next task you will do is to find one of her problems in this section and the solution or possible solution to the problem.  Finally, you will illustrate Miss Thomas.

Character Traits/Proof (3)

Character Goal

Problem

Solution

Activity Activator
Your job is to do a plot chart for this section of the book.  On this chart, you will write the main points of the section, charting the plot.