Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fifth Grade (on grade)
Chapters 5-8
Your job is to write down questions
that your group can discuss from chapters 5-8. Make sure to
come up with different types of questions. Some types of questions that
you can ask are Fact/Opinion, Multiple Choice End of Grade Questions
(MCEOG), problem/solution, author's purpose, mood, and compare/contrast.
Today you need to write down five questions and the answers. Make sure
to include what page and in what paragraph you can find the answer to the
question.
(MCEOG)
1.All of the following
describe the animal that Laura came in contact with EXCEPT which
one?
A. flat head
B. small ears
C. long brown fur
D. short legs
* Answer is C-long brown fur page 30 paragraph 4
2. Laura was to stay in sight of her mother for which reason?
A. so that Laura could help her mother with chores
B. because Ma said so
C. Pa needed to trust Laura again after she disobeyed him
D. because Laura wanted too.
* Answer is C- Pa needed to trust Laura again after she disobeyed him page 34 paragraph 4
3. Ma and Laura laughed about the steer putting a hole in the roof of the dugout because why?
A. Ma said it was like being rabbits
B. The steer had no reason for doing it
C. Pa had made the steer do it
D. it was funny to live in a house that a steer could put a hole in
* Answer is D- it was funny to live in a house that a steer could put a hole in
4. What is the author's purpose for writing chapter seven?
A. to entertain
B. to describe
C. to inform
D to convince
* Answer is C- to inform ( the entire chapter tells the audience information to help them understand the life the Ingalls lived)
5. this question should be
a mood question from chapter 8
Passage Picker
Your job is to pick parts of
the story that you want to read aloud in your group. You will need to pick
four passages to read aloud within your group. Reasons for picking these
passages can be descriptive, informative, figurative language, entertaining,
funny/amusing, foreshadowing, or scary. Make sure to include what
page you can find the passage and what paragraph or lines it may be!
Passage One
1. page 30 paragraph 4
2. Laura jumped....stared at Laura
3. I picked this passage because it describes in detail the kind of
animal that Laura came in contact with for the first time.
4. Why did Laura jump back when she saw the animal? She jumped back
because she has never seen such an animal before.
5. Author's Purpose was to describe
Passage Two
1.page 35 paragraph 3
2.Laura helped.... would never end
3. I picked this passage because it was very informative. It let the
reader know what kinds of chores children had to do back then and how different
it is today.
4. How many different chores did Laura have to do that day and name
them? She had to do seven chores, wash the dishes, make both beds,
sweep the floor, set the table, wipe the dishes after eating, rip a sheet
and stitch it.
5. Author's Purpose was to inform
Passage Three
1. page 43-44 paragraph 5
2. What is her name.......her name is spot
3. I picked this passage because it was amusing to learn that Pa did
not understand what Mrs. Nelson was saying because of the different dialect.
4. What does Pa think the calf's name is? Pa thinks that the calf's
name is "reet"
5. Author's Purpose was to inform and to entertain
Passage Four
( the reason for picking this passage should be because it was confusing)
Word Wizard
Your job is to look for special words in the story that you or your group members may not recognize or understand. Words that you could look for may be compound, hard, strange, describing, funny, and or important. Make sure to include what page and paragraph you found the word. Here are 6 words to choose from. You choose any four that you want to do.
withering (page 28)
bellowing (page 47)
stole (page 33)
sober (page 55)
colour (page 46)
quivered (page 60)
1. withering page 28 paragraph 2
2. The blue flags were withering among the dull rushes.
3. wither-to become dry, faded, or dead
4. verb
5.The roses that my mom recieved withered away in one week
1.bellowing page 47 paragraph 3
2.They came bellowing and pawing, and when they reached the big
rock they did not go by.
3. bellow- to make a loud noise, roar, shout
4.verb
5. My dad bellowed at his employees for making the train arrive late
into the station.
Character Sketcher
Your job is to find an interesting character from the chapters you have read. For this lesson you can either choose from Laura or Mary to do a character sketch of. Make sure to find three words that describe your character and you will need to give proof or an example. Make sure to put what page and in what paragraph you found the proof. You will also need to tell one goal of the character, a problem and the solution for the character. When you are done, illustrate your character!!
My character is Mary
1. page 32 paragraph 3
studious-when she
sits in the dugout and works on her spelling
2. page 32 paragraph 3
proper- when she
sits like a lady and is a good little girl
3.page 56 paragraph 2
tatle-tale- when
she threatens to tell on Laura
Character goal- To be the best little girl the Ingalls will have
Problem- Mary disobeys her Pa more than once
Solution- She must face pa and tell him the truth and try to promise
to do the right thing from now on.
Connector
Your job is to connect the story with something that has happened in your life. You will need to write it down and share with your group. You will also need to get your group sharing about things that they can also connect with the story.
In this second section that we have read Laura and Mary disobey there father
and continue to something he told them not. I remember when I was in third
grade my sister and I kept jumping into the piles of leaves that my father
and mother had racked up in the back yard. We would run and jump and roll
around in them. My dad had told us a number of times to stop jumping in
them. So the next time we pushed the leaves to the bottom of the sliding
board and slid down into the leaves instead of jumping in them.I remember
my dad saying that, that was the last straw. He had told us not to jump
in them. My sister Kelly said that we did not jump in them we slid into
them. This made my mom laugh because, she knew that we were right but still
wrong. It was just like Mary and Laura sliding down the haystack and Pa
telling them not to do it anymore. So the girls instead rolled down the
haystack and when Pa asked them if they had slide down the stack they said
no, they had rolled. :)