Pioneers of the American West

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

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Farmer Boy
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
 

Section Five
Pages 154-189

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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 Setting
1 Cause/Effect
1 Compare and Contrast
1 "Thinking" questions on your own
1 Problem/Solution
1 MCEOG

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PASSAGE PICKER

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

1 Funny/amusing/humorous/entertaining
1 Descriptive
1 Important
1 Math
1 Historical

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

- bleated (page 154-155, paragraph 3)
-idle (page 158, paragraph 2)
-skeins (page 164, paragraph 2)
-lief (page 180-181 , paragraph 11)

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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:
    -Sheep shearing process
        http://www.taoswoolfestival.org/Shearing.htm
http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/livestock/sheep/facts/info_prepshear.htm

    -Process of dying wool
        http://historic.shcsc.k12.in.us/science/dyecloth.htm

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

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