Pioneers of the American West

Tracy Huctens, Jennifer Lucas,
Cammie Mitchell, and Emily Pratt

GRASSHOPPER SUMMER
 

LESSON ONE
Pages 1-24


CHARACTER SKETCHER
Your job is to sketch Sam and Billy’s father, Walter White.


DISCUSSION DIRECTOR
Your job is to ask 5 questions, write the answers to your questions, and the page 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:

1 Effect/Cause
1 MCEOG (Multiple Choice End of Grade question)
1 Fact/Opinion
1 Compare and Contrast
1 Character Goal



PASSAGE PICKER
Your job is to pick out 4 passages that exhibit the following and complete your role sheet:

2 Figurative Language (simile and metaphor)
1 Foreshadowing
1 Persuasive



WORD WIZARD
Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following 4 words:

tar paper (page 1, paragraph 1)
linden tree (page 4, line 3)
slate (page 1, paragraph 4 and page 9, paragraph 6)
buggy (page 16, paragraph 9)



CONNECTOR
Your job is to complete your role sheet for this section.


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