Thunder Cake

Discussion Director
Your job is to ask 5 questions, the answers to your questions, and the page and paragraph where the answers are found (if possible). Be sure you ask the questions that really make your group think! You need to ask the following types of questions:

1 Main Idea Question
1 Sequence Question
1 MCEOG Question
1 Effect/Cause Question
1 Mood Question

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

sultry p.1, par.1
surveyed p. 8, par. 1
jagged p. 16, par. 1
churned p.20, par.1
bellowed p. 16, par. 2

Passage Picker
Your job is to pick out 4 passages that exhibit the following and complete the role sheet:

2 Descriptive
2 Figurative Language

• 2 Personification

Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch Patricia and follow the role sheet.

Investigator Click HERE for example
Your job is to get information on a topic related to this section of the story. With this section, you may want to gather information on

• lightning
• thunder
• causes of both
• what lightning and thunder are made of
• where is the safest place to be in a thunderstorm?

The idea is to get one bit of information of material that helps your group understand the book better. Investigate something that really interests you! Some places that you can go to in order to get information include:

• library
• magazines
• encyclopedia
• books
• computer
• Internet

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