Pioneers of the American West

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

GRASSHOPPER SUMMER
 

LESSON TWO
Pages 25 - 56


CHARACTER SKETCHER
Your job is to sketch Sam and Billy’s mother, Ellen White.


DISCUSSION DIRECTOR
Your job is to ask 6 questions, 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 MCEOG (Multiple Choice End of Grade question)
1 Setting
1 Fact/Opinion
1 Sequence
1 Prediction
1 “Thinking” question on your own



PASSAGE PICKER

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

1 Figurative Language (simile or metaphor)
1 Humorous
1 Melancholy/Sad
1 Descriptive



WORD WIZARD
Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following 5 words:

salt pork (page 25, paragraph 6)
superstition (page 26, paragraph 8)
oilcloth (page 37, paragraph 5)
morbid (page 49, paragraph 7)
snipe (page 54, paragraph 7)



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



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