CHARACTER SKETCHER
Your job is to sketch Almanzo Wilder.

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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 Problem/Solution
1 Setting
1 Characterization question about a character other than Almanzo (ex. Father, Mr. Case, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Paddock, Mother)
1 Main Idea
1 MCEOG
1 Fact/Opinion

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PASSAGE PICKER
Your job is to pick out 5 passages that exhibit the following and complete your role sheet:

1 Informative
1 Math
1 Figurative Language (simile or metaphor)
1 Controversial
1 Happy/exciting

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

-shinnied (page 349, paragraph 1)
-craned (page 360, paragraph 1)
-apprentice (page 364, paragraph 1)
-quivering (page 368-369, paragraph 2)

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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:
    -Ash withes
    -Process of baling hay
        http://www.triforage.com/about_horsehae_process.htm

    -Becoming an apprentice (ex. a wheelwright)

-Other places to obtain information:
    -magazines
    -encyclopedia
    -books
    -computer
    -interviews

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