Marvin Redpost:  Alone in His Teacher’s House by Louis Sachar
Literature Circle Section One
Pages 1-21

Character Sketcher Click Here For an Example
Your job is to sketch Waldo

Discussion Director Click Here For an Example
Your job is to ask four questions, provide the answers to your questions, and note the page and paragraph where the answers are found (if possible).  Be sure to ask questions that really make your group think!  You need to ask the following types of questions:

One Cause/Effect Question
Two Characterization Questions
One Fact Question

Passage Picker Click Here For an Example
Your job is to pick out four passages that exhibit the following:

One Step by Step Passage
One Descriptive Passage
One Simile
One Foreshadowing Passage

Word Wizard Click Here For an Example
Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following words:

Glared (Page 2, Paragraph 1)
Kennel (Page 3, Paragraph 11)
Swished (Page 10, Paragraph 4)
Stale (Page 13, Paragraph 4)
Nuzzled (Page 19, Paragraph 5)

Connector Click Here for an Example
The job of the connector is to think of ways that personal experiences connect to events and themes appearing in the book.

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