Pioneers of the American West
Tracy Hutchens, Jennifer Lucas,
Cammie Mitchell, and Emily Pratt


Farmer Boy
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
 

Section Two
Pages 49-83


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:

2 MCEOG
1 Cause/Effect
1 Characterization question about a character other that Almanzo     (example French Joe, Lazy John)
1 Setting



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

1 Descriptive
1 On Your Own
2 Figurative Language (simile or metaphor)
1 Interesting



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

-contradict (page 54, paragraph 7)
-soberly (page 55, paragraph 5)
-geraniums (page 56, paragraph 1)
-stanchions (page 64, paragraph 1)



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:
    -Toy making process
        http://www.toybox.net/
        http://www.oldwoodtoys.com/noah's_arks.htm
        http://homepages.enta.net/~gold/toyhistory5.htm
        http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/3501/19th.htm

    -Weaving
        http://www.surreyweaving.com/index_ie.html

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


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