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 one MCEOG, one hero,/heroine/villain, and one descriptive question, one problem/solution question and one cause/effect question.

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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

        5.)Persuasive

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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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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.)livestockpage 32

        2.)witherpage 32

        3.)satisfiedpage 32

        4.)accusingpage 33

        5.)wearypage 35

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As your group reads the story it is important that they understand the story and notice the details and major points of the story.As summarizer you can help the other group members get a complete understanding of the story.  Retell the story in your own words by capturing the main ideas and situations in the story. Refer to the summary that was completed on The Bunyans.
 

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