The Firebug Connection

By: Jean Craighead George

4th Grade Section 1 Chap. 1






Character Sketcher

It is your job to sketch Maggie

Discussion Director

    Your job is to write down questions that your group can discuss from the first chapter. 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, compare/contrast, setting and descriptive. You need to write down five questions and their answers. Make sure to include what page and in what paragraph you can find the answer to the question.

1 Setting

1 Fact/Opinion

2 MCEOG

1 Descriptive
 
 

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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! Your job is to pick out a passage for each one of the following;

1 descriptive

1 metaphor

1 personification

1 informative

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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 5 words to choose from. You choose any four that you want to do.

Serenade (pg.3 par.1)

Pungent (pg.9 par.2)

Paraphernalia (pg.10 line1)

Chaos (pg.12 par.1)

Lustrous (pg. 9 par.1)
 
 

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Investigator
 
 

Look up the meaning of the words:

Botanist (pg.6 par. 3)

Dendrologist (pg. 7 line1)
 
 

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