Louis Sachar
by
Molly Carlberg, Liz Link, and Emily Morgan

Marvin Redpost:  Alone in His Teacher's House by Louis Sachar
Literature Circle Section Four
Pages 67-83

Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch Mrs. North

Discussion Director
Your job is to ask five 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 Fact Question
Two Cause/Effect Questions
One Characterization Question
One Thinking Question

Passage Picker
Your job is to pick out four passages that exhibit the following:

Two Descriptive Passages
One Simile
One Idiom

Word Wizard
Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following words:

Demanded (Page 67, Paragraph 5)
Mobbed (Page 69, Paragraph 4)
Exception (Page 72, Paragraph 1)
Expelled (Page 74, Paragraph 4)

Connector
The job of the connector is to think of ways that personal experiences connect to events and themes appearing in the book.  You may consider asking your group questions about experiencing the deaths of pets.

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