CHARACTER SKETCHER
Your job is to sketch Almanzo Wilder.

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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 Characterization question about a character other than Almanzo
1 MCEOG
1 "Thinking" question on your own
1 Mood
1 Scary/frightening/mysterious/intriguing

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

1 Interesting
1 Descriptive
1 Informative
1 Figurative Language (simile or metaphor)

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

-harrow (page 121, paragraph 2)
-colander (page 136-137, paragraph 6)
-shrewd (page 138-139, paragraph 2)
-haunches (page 141, paragraph 5)
-inquiry (page 152-153, paragraph 5)

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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:
    -How the fields are/were planted
    -How to plant grain.  Why is it so important to spread the grain so evenly?
        http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/agengin/g01651.htm
        http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/economy/farming/           http://www.dnr.state.mi.us/wildlife/landowners_guide/Habitat_Mgmt/Cropland/Grain_plot_planting.htm

    -Tin-peddler
    http://mcgee.berlinschools.org/berlin/industry1.htm   http://www.bethel.wednet.edu/District/schools/ev/web/rooms/Winter/wreviews1.htm#farmer

    -Morgan horses
        http://www.morganhorse.com/
        http://members.tripod.com/~NMMH/

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

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