Your job is to write down questions that your group can talk about.  Be sure to start your questions with words like, Who, What, When, Why, How, Tell, Where, and Describe. ************************************************************************************************
Passage Picker
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
by: Mildred Taylor

Section Eight: 212-241



Your job is to pick passages from this section that you and your group can talk about.  Choose the passages that satisfy the following reasons:
 

The Steps:
1. Pick out a passage you would like to share
2.Write down the page and paragraph number.
3. Write down the first two words and the last two words of your passage.
4. Write down the reason you chose the passage, and explain why!
5. Ask a question about your passage, and give an answer.
6. Write down the Author's purpose: to describe, to entertain, to inform or to persuade.
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Word Wizard
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
by: Mildred Taylor

Section Eight:  212-241

The Steps

1. Write down the word and include the page and paragraph number.
2. Copy the sentence from the book in which the word appears.
3. Look up the word in the dictionary.
4. Using your context clues and the dictionary definition, write down in your own words the definition of the word.
5. Write down the correct part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb).
6. Write down a question and the answer about the word that would help you to teach the word to your group.  Try to ask a question about the word that makes your group refer back to the text.  OR you could write a sentence using the word wizard word.
7. Make your word wizard card.  Be sure to include in big print your word and the page and paragraph number.  On the other side of your card should be a picture, the word, and the definition of the word.

Choose four words from the following:

despondently (p. 223 par.7)      veered (p. 224 par.4)       phenomenal (p. 225 par. 6)

frenzied (p. 226 top par.)         ambled (p. 227 par.2)       mortgage (p. 233 par.9)     throng (p. 236 par.8)
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Character Sketcher
Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry
by Mildred Taylor

Section Eight :  212-241

Your job is to find an interesting character from the section you read today.  You will find three words that describe the character.  For each word, or character trait, you will give proof, or example (don't forget to include the page and paragraph number!).  The next thing you will do is tell one of your 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 according to the describing words in the book!

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Some suggestions for Characters from this section:

Mr. Morrison
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Meaning Mapper
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
by: Mildred Taylor

Section Eight:  212-241

Your job is to map the assigned words important to today's reading.  Follow the sequence below: first write the assigned word in the rectangle.  Second, (if possible) draw a picture of the word or something you connect with the word.  Third, write the sentence from the story in which the word appears.  Fourth, write down your definition of the word either from the dictionary or some other source.  Fifth, write your own sentence using the assigned word.

Your assigned word is:  Revival