CHARACTER SKETCHER
Your job is to be character sketcher for the day.  You are to find traits about your character and use these traits to introduce your
character to other students in your group.  You will find three words, or traits, about your character.  For each trait, or word, you will
give proof that this trait fits your character by citing the page number and paragraph that you found this
trait.  You will then identify the characters goals, or what the character is planning to do in this book.  You will also identify one of the
characters problems in the book and tell the solution or possible solutions to the problem.  Finally, you will illustrate the character, or
characters to others in your group through a drawing.  Remember that these traits may not be directly stated, but are often implied so
look deep.
Your job is to sketch Mrs. Midas.

DISCUSSION DIRECTOR
As discussion director, your job is to form questions about what you read in this book.  You should evaluate the topics, or ideas, that you
feel are important and create questions that stress this importance to the rest of the group.  Be able to support your idea of why you feel
it is important and encourage your group to think openly as to why this topic may be important to them as well.  Remember to be
creative and get students actively involved in discussing what they read in the book.  In order to get your group involved, you should
create 5 questions to include the following:
1 Problem/ Solution
1 MCEOG
1 Prediction
1 Compare/ Contrast
1 Cause/ Effect

PASSAGE PICKER
Your job is to be passage picker for the day.  You are to choose passages that you feel are important to what you have read in this
book.  You should be able to support why you chose these passages and why they are important to what you read.  You will introduce
each passage to the group by explaining its importance and meaning to the reader.  Please remember to write down your passages as well
as their page number and paragraph so you can easily come back to them.  It will also help to record the first two words and last two
words found in the passage and write what type of passage it is so that other students will find it easier to locate.  Form questions about
you passages that encourages others to look deeper into their meanings.  For this book, you should choose four passages that include at
least four of the following descriptions:
1 Descriptive
1 Important
2 Funny or Interesting

WORD WIZARD
Your job is to be word wizard for the day.  You will be given a list of words that are found in the text and may be unfamiliar to other
students in your group.  You may use all four of these words or use some of the words given to you and choose other words in the text
that you do not know.  However, you must have a total of four words.  You will read the word in the context it is written.  You should
write down the page number and paragraph that the word is written for future reference.  Write the sentence that the word appears in
and think about the word as it appears in the text.  Write down what you think the word means and the part of speech that it serves in
the story.  Look up the word in the dictionary and write how it adds meaning to the story.  Finally, make the word wizard card that
contains all you have done.  Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following 4 words:
Absentmindedly p. 10 par 1
Laden p. 14 par 9
Hesitate p 12 par 3
Hastily p. 15 par 3
Cellophane p. 15 top of page

ACTIVITY ACTIVATOR
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?
John quickly forgets the concerns of his parents and doctor about his candy eating habits.  Do you think John should be worried?  On a sheet of construction paper draw a circle and cut it out.  (It should be a little bigger than a quarter.)  Write your initials on the coin and tape it on the class bar graph.  (TEACHER)  The bar graph should be labeled with two columns one yes and another no.  The title should state:  Should John be worried about eating too much chocolate?  Discuss with the students the results and their opinions.