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

Marvin Redpost:  Class President by Louis Sachar
Literature Circle Section Five
Pages 1-20

Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch Mrs. North

Discussion Director
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 Fact Question
One Characterization Question
One MCEOG Question
One Cause/Effect Question

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

One Step by Step Passage
One Descriptive Passage
One Metaphor
One Humorous Passage

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

Bar Mitzvah (Page 4, Paragraph 1)
Gasped (Page 11, Paragraph 2)
Attentive (Page 14, Paragraph 7)
Pollution (Page 18, Paragraph 3)

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 dress-up days at school, fighting at school, and/or having visitors at school.

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