Tracy Hutchens, Jennifer Lucas,
Cammie Mitchell, and Emily Pratt
Farmer Boy
Section One
Pages 1-48
Section One
Pages 1-48
CHARACTER SKETCHER
Your job is to sketch Almanzo Wilder.
DISCUSSION DIRECTOR
Your job is to ask 5 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 Effect/Cause Question
2 MCEOG (Multiple Choice End of Grade questions)
1 “Thinking” question on your own
1 Characterization question about a character other than Almanzo
PASSAGE PICKERYour job is to pick out 5 passages that exhibit the following and complete your role sheet:
2 Figurative Language (simile)
2 Descriptive
1 Interesting
WORD WIZARD
Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following 5 words:-rapped (p. 6, par. 4)
-placidly (p. 16, par. 1)
-gnaw (p. 24, par. 1)
-tallow (p. 30, par. 1)
-pannikin (p. 31, par. 2)
INVESTIGATOR
Your job is to dig up some background information on any topic related
to this section. The idea is to find one bit of information or material that
helps your group understand the book better. Investigate something that
really interests you--something that struck you as puzzling or curious
while you were reading. You should complete your role sheet for this section. You need to obtain information on a topic related within this section of the story.Topics:
-Milking a cow
http://phoenix.about.com/library/weekly/aa020101a.htm
http://www.moomilk.com/tour.htm
http://www1.oecd.org/puma/sigmaweb/cow2kid/private/cow2a.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/1092/tour1.html-Haymows
http://www.lincolnne.com/nonprofit/nhc/barnagainstories.html
http://www.catskill.net/rbbtman/RAB12.HTM-Places to obtain information:
-magazines
-encyclopedia
-books
-internet
-interviews
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