"The Talking Earth"

by Jean Craighead George

Section Five:

Page 74-87

Discussion Director:

Your job is to ask 6 questions, the answers to your questions, and the page number and paragraph where the answers are found (if possible).  Be sure you ask questions that really make your group think!!  You need to ask the following types of questions:

2 MCEOG questions

1 in the book question

1 characterization question about Coootchobee

2 Thought provoking questions

Passage Picker:

Your job is to pick out 5 passages that exhibit the following:

3 simile/metaphor

1 descriptive

1 on your own

Word Wizard:

Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following 3 words and one word of your choice:

stoically (page 75, paragraph 2, line 1)

buttresses (page 75, paragraph 3, line 2)

rookery (page 78, paragraph 6, line 1)

Character Sketcher:

Your job is to sketch Billie Wind

Investigator:

Your job is to investigate more about swamps and the life that lives there

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