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:
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:
Descriptive
Page 27 Mrs. LaBelle- with us
This passage describes what the LaBelle house looks like. It tells that the house is dirty and not very clean.
What do the LaBelles use to light their house?
Answer: Pork fat that is coiled up into a tin cup. They do not have candles.
Authors Purpose: to describe
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.
Today your character is: Vinnie Mitchell (Mama)
Goal:
To make it to the new land where their home will be and to keep her and her family's spirits up while they are traveling.
Problem:
She and Elizabeth get lice while they are staying with the LaBelle family.
Solution:
Vinnie cuts her hair and Elizabeth's very short so the lice will be
gone.
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.
prodigious p. 25 par. 1
hastened p. 27 par. 2
skillet p. 38 par. 2
clammy p. 40 par. 2
Artful Artist
Your job today is Artful Artist. Your job is to draw some kind of picture related to the reading. It can be a sketch, cartoon, diagram, flow chart, or stick figure scene. You can draw a picture of something that's discussed specifically in your book, something that the reading reminded you of, or a picture that shows any idea of feeling you got from the reading. Use a separate sheet of paper. When you are finished drawing, write a descriptive paragraph about your drawing. Don't tell the group what your drawing is. Let them guess and talk about it first. Then you will read your paragraph.
Your paragraph should include: