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

Marvin Redpost:  Class President by Louis Sachar
Literature Circle Section Seven
Pages 42-67

Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch Marvin’s mother

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 Characterization Question
Two Cause/Effect Questions
One Opinion Question
One Fact Question

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

One Humorous Passage
One Idiom
One Descriptive Passage
One Foreshadowing Passage

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

Impressed (Page 51, Paragraph 7)
Rearrange (Page 59, Paragraph 9)
Accused (Page 62, Paragraph 1)
Banister (Page 64, Paragraph 4)
Strained (Page 67, Paragraph 2)

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 times they have forgotten something important and/or if they have ever been on television.

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