Jessica Coulter, Kristy Familar,
Lara Seagle and Louise Urban
Jack and the Bean Tree
Section II
Discussion Director
Today you will be Discussion Director for your literature group.You should come up with good thinking questions for your group.Make sure your questions are important to the section and involve more than just finding the answer in the book.With your questions you should include the answers and the page numbers and paragraph where the answers can be found.This will make it easier for you and your group members during discussion, if problems should arise. You should have two MCEOG, one True/False, and one descriptive question, one opinion question and one setting question.
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Passage Picker
Your job as Passage Picker will be to mark or identify
passages in the book as you read.Give
the page number and paragraph that you wish to share with the group.Write
down the first and last two words of the passage and then explain the type
of passage it is and why.At the
end of your role, include some questions.
Look for
the following types of passages in your reading:
1.)Simile
2.)Surprising
3.)Cause/Effect
4.)Descriptive
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Character Sketcher
When reading you will create your own images of what the people and places in the story look like.This job will give you the opportunity to illustrate on paper what you think a character looks like to share with your group.Along with your drawing you should include three traits that the character possesses and the page number and paragraph that supports the trait you pick.Then, include the character’s goal, and if there is one, a problem and solution.
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Word Wizard
As Word Wizard you have an important job of finding words in the book that are difficult and that you or your group may not know.You should find at least five words, which you will list and give the page number and paragraph for each.Then, you will write the sentence where you found the word, what you think the word means and the definition.On an index card draw a picture that shows what the word means and then on the other side write the word, definition, page number and paragraph.
1.)kindlingpage
17
2.)commencedpage
20
3.)lassoedpage
25
4.)determinedpage
25
5.)vittlespage 28
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Artful Artist:
The fifth job for this section will be Artful Artist!You will come up with a creative way to react to the story.You can represent a person, event or place in the story or even something that you learned from the story. Along with your creation include evidence from the text to support your idea. Write a paragraph that explains your art project to the other groups members and demonstrates how it all connects to the story.
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