Chapter 4-7

Instructions

1.  Your job is to write a question for each of these question types and answer the question.
2.  Be sure to include page and paragraph for proof.

MCEOG
Point of View
Mood
Italics
Main Idea

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Point of View
From whose point of view is the story being told?
A) Papa
B) Sarah
C) Anna
D) Caleb
E) None of the above

Answer:  B) Sarah   pg. 31; para. 6
 
 

Chapter 4 - 7

Instructions

1.  Pick four passages from the section you read today.
2.  After picking the passage, do the Passage Picker job for each passage.
3.  You need one passage for each of the following reasons.

Dialect
Foreshadowing
Simile
Surprising

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1. p. 36; para. 1
2. “I’m hot…Let’s swim.”
3. I chose this passage because it surprised me that Sarah wants to go swimming.  Before now she has seemed reluctant and hesitant to participate in fun things on the farm.
4. How does Sarah’s desire to go swimming make the reader feel?  It made me feel like things are going to work out on the prairie and Sarah will want to stay with the family permanently.
5. The Author’s Purpose is to inform the reader of Sarah’s attitude.
 
 

Chapters 4 - 7

Instructions

1.  Find each of the following words in the passage we read for class today.
2.  Do the Word Wizard job for each word.

paddock; p.23, para. 5
gull; p.25, para. 1
velvet ribbon; p. 26, first line
dune; p. 29, para. 5 from the bottom
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1. dune
2. “But William and I found a sand dune all our own.”
3. A dune is a hill of loose sand heaped up by the wind often found near the shore.
4. Noun
5. What information does the use of the word dune give the reader?  It lets the reader know that the landscape on the east coast is very different from the prairie landscape.
6. Make word card.
 
 

Chapters 4 - 7

Instructions

Your job is to make a Character Map of Sarah based on the information in this section.  You need to find:

• 3 character traits, example and proof including page and paragraph
•  one of the Sarah's goals for this section
• one of Sarah's problems in the section
• the solution to Sarah's problem or a predicted solution if the solution hasn't been decided

Character Traits
Informative – when she teachers them how to float in the pond; p. 36, 2nd to last paragraph
Amusing – when Anna says of Sarah that the chickens know they wont be eaten because Sarah won’t allow it; p. 39, para.4
Melancholy – when Matthew and Maggie had to leave and go back to their farm; p. 43, para. 3

Character Goals
Sarah is trying very hard to preserver on the prairie.  She also wants to make Papa, Anna and Caleb happy.

Problem
Sarah misses her family and the landscape of Maine.

Solution
She finds similarities between the prairie landscape and the landscape from back east.  She also makes new friends and gets a new “family.”
 

Chapters 4 - 7

Instructions

Your job is to find information on the effects of drought.  From the information you find, write a brief paragraph that will inform your group about drought.  Write two questions for your group to answer, based on the information you write about drought.