Louis Sachar

Molly Carlberg, Emily Morgan, and Liz Link

Marvin Redpost: Super Fast and Out of Control!

Section 2
Pages 30-56

Character Sketcher

Your job is to sketch Casey Happleton.

Discussion Director

Your job as the discussion director is to ask 5 questions, and the p.____ and par.____ where the answers are found (if possible).  Be sure you ask questions that really make your group think!!  You need to ask the following types of questions:

1 MCEOG
2 Fact/Opinion
2 Cause/Effect

Passage Picker
Your job is to to pick out 4 passages that exhibit the following:

1 Descriptive
1 Funny/Amusing
1 Confusing
1 Scary/frightening
 

Word Wizard
Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following 5 words:

concentrating p. 31 par. 5
impersonation p. 32 par. 1
criminal p. 41 par. 1
mentioned p. 50 par. 3
reputation p. 51 par. 6

Activity Activator

Your job is to create an activity that represents information learned and ideas experienced from reading the book.  Every member of the group must be involved in this activity.

An example activity:
Re-read the pages of this section of the book that talks about Casey sitting in a lie detector chair.
Write a story about a time that you have lied.  Pretend that you are sitting in a lie detector chair and describe how you feel.  Think of questions the lie detector would ask you and how you would answer them.  Be creative!

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