DISCUSSION DIRECTOR
Your job is to ask 5 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 Point of view
    1 MCEOG
    1 Fact /Opinion
    1 Figurative Language
    1 Compare/Contrast

PASSAGE PICKER
Your job is to pick out 4 passages that exhibit the following and complete your role sheet:
    1 Figurative Language (simile or metaphor)
    1 Problem/Solution
    1 Funny/Humorous
    1 Interesting

WORD WIZARD
Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following 5 words:
    rummaging-pg. 40, par. 6
    ravenously-pg. 44, par. 2
    exhaustion-pg. 47, par. 1
    incidentally-pg. 47, par. 2
    clustering-pg. 50, par. 6

CHARACTER SKETCHER
Your job is to sketch Grandpa Joe.

SUMMARIZER
Your job is to give a brief summary of today's reading.  The other members of your group will be counting on you to give a quick statement that tells the key points or the main highlights of today's reading assignment.  Include in your summary the beginning, middle and end of the reading assignment.  The beginning of the story tells who the main characters are, where the story takes place, when the story takes place and what the problem is.  The middle of the story tells the plot of the story (what happens in the story) and how the characters try to solve the problem (events).  The end of the story tells how the problem is solved and what finally happens.