Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch Rowdy

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 Cause and Effect Question
1 Foreshadowing/Prediction Question
1 Sequencing Question
1 E.O.G. Test Question about Patty and Jay Berry
1 Main Idea Question about Chapter 12
1 Point-of-View Question

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

2 Figurative Language Passage ( 1 hyperbole and 1 simile)
1 Author's Craft Passage (descriptive)
1 Courageous Passage
1 Historical Passage
1 Descriptive/Author's Craft Passage

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

raring  p. 134 par 4
codger  p. 134 par 7
rumble  p. 140 par 13
buckboard  p. 150 par 14
bushel  p. 150 par 9
spring  p. 152 par 12

Connector
Your job is to make 4 connections between the section and life in your classroom or community.  Make a Venn Diagram that compares and contrasts one of your connections with the thing you connected it to.  For example, if there is a store in your town like the one Patty works in, make a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting Patty's store with the store in your town.

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