Discussion Director

    Today your job is to be the discussion director.  You will come up with questions that the group will discuss about this part of the book. Be sure to form questions about parts of the reading that you feel are important.  Be able to tell the group WHY you feel this way.   You will come up with:
 

• 1 Compare/Contrast
• 1 Mood
• 1 Figurative Language
• 2 MC/EOG

All of the following are reasons why Faith's family was discouraged on their trip except:

    a)  wheels kept falling off
    b)  animals were dying
    c)  it was raining all the time
    d)  they were running out of food

Answer:  c)  all of the reasons are given except rain on pages 46-48.
 

Passage Picker

    Today your job is to be the Passage Picker.  You will pick important passages from the pages we have read.  You will tell the group why you feel this passage is important and help the group discuss it.  For this section choose 4 passages from the following reasons:

• entertaining
• informative
• theme
• descriptive
• interesting

Character Sketcher

Today your job is character sketcher.  Your job is to find interesting traits about a character from this section of reading.  You will find 3 words that describe the character.  For each word, or trait, you will give the proof, or example (including page and paragraph). Next, you will 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 tell the solution or possible solution to the problem. Finally, you will illustrate your character.

Your character today is:  Faith

Traits and Proof

1) p. 41-43
    worried- because Josefina has fallen out of the wagon and is being swept away by the current of the river.
2)  p. 47-48
    frustrated- because the wagon trip has been going on a long time and she is hungry and tired
3)  p. 55-57
    mournful- because Josefina has passed away, and she misses her pet hen.
 

Word Wizard

    Your job today is word wizard.  You will take the four words given and look them up in the reading.  Then look up the word in the dictionary. Using the context clues from the reading write down, in your own words, the definition of the word.  Write down the correct part of speech.  Next either write down a question and answer about the word for your group to answer or a sentence using your word wizard word.  Finally, make your Word Wizard card.

crooned  p. 38
ruffled  p. 44
squawked  p.53
humdinger p. 54
 

Summarizer

Your job today is summarizer.  Your job is to prepare a brief summary of today's reading.  The other members of your group will be counting on you to give a quick statement that tell the key points or the main highlights of the book we finished.  Also make a list of  main ideas or key events from the story.

Summary:
Faith and her family have decided to move West.  Faith has a pet hen named Josefina.  She wants to take Josefina with her but her Dad says no.  She finally convinces him to let her go with them.  While they are traveling, Josefina causes some trouble.  She upsets the animals, she falls out of the wagon, and is almost traded to the Indians.  She does some good things too.  Josefina starts laying eggs again and saves the family from robbers.  The trip is very hard on everybody.  Josefina was old at the beginning of the book, and at the end when the family reaches their new land, Josefina dies.

Key Points:

• Faith and her family are moving to California.
• Josefina, the hen, cannot go, but Faith's Dad changes his mind and lets her go.
• Josefina almost causes a stampede of the animals.
• Josefina falls out of the wagon and almost gets swept away by the current in the river.
• Josefina starts laying eggs again.
• Pa has to trade with Indians for food and water.
• People and animals are dying along the trail in the desert.
• Josefina saves the family from robbers during the night.
• Josefina dies and is buried under a pine tree.
• Faith and her family finish the quilt with the patches they made on their trip out west to California.