Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch Jay Berry

Discussion Director
Your job is to ask 6 questions and write out the answer to your questions. Include the page____ and paragraph____ where
your answers are found.  Be sure you ask questions that really make your group think!!!
You need to ask the following types of questions:

1 Thinking Question about a funny or disturbing passage
1 E.O.G. Test Question about Papa and Jay Berry's trip to see the monkeys
1 Main Idea Question
1 Problem/Solution Question
1 Historical Connection Question
1 Comparison/Contrast Question about Mama and Daisy or Jay Berry and Grandpa

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

1 Foreshadowing Passage
2 Figurative Language Passages (one simile and one idiom)
1 Summarizing Passage
1 Animal Characterization Passage
1 Problem/Solution Passage

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

hallowed  p. 58 par 6
cinch  p. 65 par 10
hefting  p. 66 par 3
swipe  p. 66 par 9
contraption  p. 66 par 7
celluloid  p. 66 par 7
loping  p. 70 par 3
racket  p. 80 par 7

Travel Tracer
Your job is to create a map of Jay Berry's journeys in this section including illustrations and characters that belong in each place.  Create a map symbol for each place visited and write a sentence explaining your choice of symbol for each.

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