Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fifth Grade (on grade)
Chapters 9-13
Discussion Director
Your job is to write down questions that your group
can discuss from chapters 9-13. 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.
1. Which of the following best describes Mary when the cattle came charging?
A. fierce
B. strong
C. scared
D.fustrated
* Answer is C-scared page 70 paragraph 5
2. Why was Laura worried about the dugout not having a fire-place?
A. because then they could not cook their food
B. there would be no place to hang their stockings
C. Santa Claus would not be able to come down to their house
* Answer is C- Santa Claus would not be able to come down to their house page 83 paragraphs 1-3
3. This would be a author's purpose question
4. This would be a mood question
5. This would be a cause/effect question
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!
1. pages 80-81 paragraph 2
2. Grasshopper Weather.... and was gone
3. I picked this passage because it described a grasshopper is detail
and it was informative to know what grasshoppers look like in detail.
4. Grasshoppers feet are? They are thin and scratchy
5. Author's purpose was to inform and describe
1. page 90 paragraph 2
2. The box was.... when she saw it
3. I picked this passage because it was descriptive and important to
show that simple things were appreciated back then
4. Laura said there were buttons from whom? Her mom and grandmother
5. Author's purpose is to describe and inform
* The other two passages need to be about foreshadowing and have
figurative language.
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.
scaling (page 65 para 1)
jostling (page 71 line 2)
challis (page 68 para 1)
yoked (page 76 para 5)
gouging (page 70 para 1)
harrowing (page 83 line 1)
1. challis page 68 paragraph 1
2. Ma wore her hoopskirts and her best dress, the beautifull challis
with little strawberries on it, that hse had worn to the sugaring-dance
at Grandma's long ago in the Big Woods.
3.challis- clothing material
4.noun
5.I wish that I owned beautifull challis with little strawberries on
it.
1.jostling page 21 line 2
2. All the other cattle ran humping and jostling after her, and
Jack and Laura and Mary ran after them.
3.jostle- to shove or push in a rough way
4.verb
5.Students should not jostle in school when getting in line to go somewhere.
Character Sketcher
Your job is to find an interesting character
from the chapters you have read. For this lesson you can choose from Laura
or Ma 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!!
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 connect with the story.
SEE SECTION TWO FOR JOB MODEL