Mandy Rose
Mike Thompson
Beth Davis
Discussion Director
Your Job is to find 5 questions, the answer to your questions,
and page and paragraph number where the answers are found (if possible).
Be sure to come up with good thinking questions. You need to ask the following
types of questions:
1 Description question (question where the answer describes something
in the story such as a character, setting, or event)
1 Characterization question (questions that ask for certain descriptions
or aspects of a certain character)
1 Cause and Effect question (the effect tells what happened.
The cause tells why it happened)
1 Multiple Choice End of Grade question
1 Prediction question (question that leads to what will happen next
in a sequence of events)
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Passage Picker
Your job as passage picker will be to pick out certain passages of
section that interest you or contain certain literature components such
as imagery or figurative language. As passage picker you are to write down
the page and paragraph number the passage is located in. You are
also to write down the first two and the last two words of the passage
and name what type of passage it is or why you chose it. Think of
a question about the passage and write it down along with the answer. Also
write down why you think the author used the passage in the story and what
the passage adds to the story?
2 figurative language passages (simile and imagery)
1 descriptive passage
1 on your own
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Character Sketcher
Your job as character sketcher is to is to identify a character’s actions
(trait) and explain or prove these traits, identify the character’s goal
(which is what the character wants to do or accomplish), identify the problem
and solution in the reading, and complete a sketch or illusion of the character.
The trait that you will pick should be implied traits, traits that
are not directly stated in the passage, you should use descriptive words
for these and avoid such words as good, bad, mean, etc…
When you list your traits be sure to include the page and paragraph
number where you found the trait.
Your job is to sketch the Black Night.
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Word Wizard
Your job as word wizard is to perform the following task with the list
of words presented to you in each section. First write down
the page and paragraph containing the word, and then copy the sentence
that the word is located in. Reread the sentence, think about the
word and how it is used in the sentence and write down what type of speech
you think the word is and what your think the word means. Look the
word up in the dictionary using the dictionary definition and everything
you know about the word write down your own definition of the word.
Explain how this word adds meaning to the story. Create a word
wizard card for each word. On the front in large print, write the
word, page and paragraph number. On the backside of the card include
the word, page and paragraph number, the definition and draw a picture
to represent your word.
Complete word wizard job for the following words;
Armor p.1 par. 3
Lance p.2 par. 8
Infidels p.5 par. 3
Knaves p. 15 par. 1
Slew p.21 par. 1
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Investigator
Your job as the investigator is to use the given resource to find information
on a given topic that is related to the book you are reading. You
are also responsible for presenting the information to the rest of your
group.
As investigator use the following website, www.yahooligans.com, to create
a short biographical paragraph about King Author.
Be sure top answer the following questions in your paragraph;
When and where was he born?
Why was he famous?
Where did he live?
Did he have any family?