Tall Tales

           Jessica Coulter, Kristy Familar

                   Lara Seagle, Louise Urban
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Discussion Director:

Your job is to come up with five thinking questions. You want to make your group to think about what
they have just read. It is important to ask thinking questions and not just questions that are right in the
book.  You are to choose one MCEOG question, one problem/solution, one point of view question, one mood question, and one question on your own.
 

Passage Picker:

Your job is to choose four passages from the reading that you want to discuss with your group.  Once the
passage has been chosen, write down the page number and paragraph number, the first two and last two
words in the passage, what type of passage it is and why it demonstrates that, a thinking question about
the passage, and why the author included this passage.

Find passages that demonstrate:
1. Irony
2. Foreshadowing
3. Simile
4. Funny
 

Word Wizard:

Your job is to pick out five words that you find interesting or are unfamiliar with. For each word you will
need to write the page and paragraph number where the word is found, the definition of the word, the
part of speech, the sentence from the reading containing that word, and an explanation telling how this
word adds meaning to the story. Finally, you must make a wizard card. Be sure to include the word, page
and paragraph number on one side and on the other include a picture, the word and the definition of the
word.

Find and make cards for the following words:
Precipice – page 174 paragraph 7
Delirious – page 175 second paragraph from the bottom
Indistinct – page 196 paragraph 10
Sifted – page 200 paragraph 2
Feebly – Page 180 paragraph 5
 

Character Sketcher:

Your job is to choose an interesting character from the section you read. You will find three character
traits and proof of that trait, the character’s goals, and the problem and solution of the character. Finally
you must illustrate your character.

Character Sketch:
Zero
 

Activity Activator:

Your job is to involve the group members in an activity that represents information learned and the experiences of the characters.  You may choose from a K-W-L, a Venn diagram, a story map, or a character map.

Here is an example.
 

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