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

Marvin Redpost:  Class President by Louis Sachar
Literature Circle Section Six
Pages 21-41

Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch the president

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 MCEOG Question
One Opinion Question
One Fact Question
One Cause/Effect Question

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

One Humorous Passage
One Problem/Solution Passage
One Idiom
One Embarrassing Passage

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

Disturbed (Page 24, Paragraph 9)
Embarrassing (Page 25, Paragraph 1)
Photographer (Page 26, Paragraph 1)
Exhaled (Page 32, Paragraph 9)
Interrupt (Page 35, Paragraph 1)

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 meeting famous people and/or characteristics of good citizens.

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