CHARACTER SKETCHER
Your job is to sketch May Amelia.

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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 Characterization
1 Fact/Opinion
1 Italics
1 MCEOG
2 Cause/Effect

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

1 Figurative Language
1 Descriptive
1 Informative
1 Dialect

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WORD WIZARD
Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following 6 words:

smugglers (page 187, paragraph 2)
scandalous (page 187, paragraph 3)
bachelors (page 188, paragraph 2)
fricasseed (page 189, paragraph 3)
vagabonds (page 196, paragraph 7)
exaggerating (page 214, paragraph 4)

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

Chinese language – How does this language differ from English?
Cannery – What is a cannery and what do you do in them?
Homesteaders – What kinds of people are homesteaders?
Smuggler – What is a smuggler and how do they get around?
Saloons – What is a saloon and what do people do there?
Taverns – What is a tavern and what do people do there?
cooking oysters – What are the many ways to cook oysters and which is your favorite?
flatten the heads – What does it mean to flatten the heads?