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


Our Only May Amelia
By: Jennifer L. Holm
 

SECTION FIVE
Pages 91 - 108


CHARACTER SKETCHER
Your job is to sketch Grandmother Patience.


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 MCEOG
2 Characterization
1 Setting
1 "Thinking" On Your Own



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

2 Figurative Language (simile or metaphor)
1 Descriptive
1 Dialect



WORD WIZARD
Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following 7 words:

scandal (page 94 paragraph 4)
bureau (page 95 paragraph 4)
scandalous (page 96 paragraph 5)
mucking (page 96 paragraph 6)
ominously (page 97 paragraph 2)
slovenly (page 97 paragraph 4)
urchin (page 97 paragraph 4)



INVESTIGATOR
Your job is to complete your role sheet for this section on the following.

Knappton - What is this and where is it located?
Catholics - What do these people believe in?
Lutherans - What kind of religion is this and what do they believe in?
mending - What is mending and what is it used for?
mucking - What is mucking and what is it used for?
China baby doll - What does a Chinese baby doll look like, and why do you think it was used in the book?


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