A NOVEL OF REBELLION
By: Paul Samuel Jacobs
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Fifth Grade (above grade level)
Section 1 (pages 1-27)
Discussion Director
Your job is to develop a list of questions that your group will discuss
about this part of the book. You may come up with your own qestions,
or you may chose from the sample questions.
1 MCEOG
2 Character
1 Problem solution
1 prediction
1. All of the following describe Bartholomew Green except
which one?
A. Stubborn clump of hair on top of his head
B. Gray eyes
C. Small ears that stick a little too much
D. Large nose that is quite bothersome
Answer: D (page 2, paragraph 1)
2. What do you feel the reason that the first chapter is entitled
Awakening
Day?
Answer: It starts off when Sam awakens Bartholomew in
the morning to meet King Phillip. (page 1, paragraph 2)
3. What is the author's purpose for writing this chapter? (Choose
the best possible answer)
A. To entertain
B. To describe
C. To persuade or convince
D. To inform
Answer: (D) To describe. The author sets up the
story by describing the scene and the main characters. (The whole
first section is used to describe the characters and set up the story.
4. From whose point of view is this book written? (Who is telling
the story?)
Answer: Bartholomew Green's (page 1, paragraph 1
- the I is referring to Bartholomew Green)
5. What genre is this book? How do you know?
Answer: Historical Fiction. The events described
in this story really happened in history, but the characters portrayed
could or could not have been actually true. (page 217-220 Afterward)
Passage Picker
Your job is to pick passages from this section that you and your group
can talk about.
1) Pick out passage you would like to share
2) Write down the page and paragraph number
3) Write down the entire passage being used
4) Write down the first two words and the last two words of your passage
5) Write down the reason you chose the passage and explain why
6) Ask a question about your passage and give an answer
7) Write down the Author's purpose
Choose passages that satisfy these four reasons:
Descriptive
Surprising
Figurative language
Importance
1. Descriptive
2. Page 2, Paragraph 1
3. "There I was, the same Bartholomew Green I had been before.
The same clump of hair stood stubbornly on my head, refusing to bend before
my brush. The same gray eyes, now cleared of sleep, blinked back
at me. The same small ears stuck out from my head just a little too
much."
4. There I...too much
5. I chose this passage because I feel that it gives an accurate
description of Bartholomew Green
6. (Q) How can you relate to Bartholomew Green in this passage?
(A) I sometimes feel the same way when it comes to looking in a mirror
at myself. One always sees themselves as uglier than they really
are.
7. Author's Purpose: To describe the main character
1. Importance
2. Page 5, Paragraph 3
3. "He was an Indian, but I did not think of him so. If
you closed your eyes and heard him speak, you would not have known it."
4. He was...known it.
5. I chose this passage because I feel that this accurately describes
how one can judge a person based on his/her character instead of his/her
race.
6. (Q) Why do you think that they said this of James?
(A) Because it just goes to show you that the stereotypes of certain
people have of others is often unfounded.
7. Author's Purpose: To speak on the subject of
judging by one's character instead of what we see.
1. Descriptive
2. Page 3, Paragraph 5
3. "Her face was dusted with freckles from working with my mother
in the garden, and there was a golden streak in her long brown hair."
4. Her face...brown hair
5. I chose this passage because you can actually see the face
of Annie.
6. (Q) What do you think of when you hear this description?
(A) I see a really cute girl working hard with her mother.
7. Author's Purpose: To vividly describe the character
of Annie
1. Figurative Language
2. Page 7
3. "Sam laughed aloud at this. 'To Robert, even Cambridge
seems too wild a place for a daughter of his, I think. Yet we have
our own college, which must be as fine as any in the world!"
4. Sam laughed...the world!
5. I chose this passage due to its reference to people thinking
in general that there area or part of the world is better than somewhere
else.
6. (Q) How does this passage make you feel about Sam?
(A) I think this passage makes me feel that he is human in that almost
everyone has a prejudice for the place they are from or even about their
children. (etc. My child is the smartest and prettiest in the
world.)
7. Author's Purpose: To put humanity to his person.
Word Wizard
Your job is to look for special words in the story. On your recording
sheet, write down the following:
1. Rousted (page 1, paragraph 2)
2. "My half-brother, Sam, rousted me from bed long before
the sun began its climb across the sky."
3. Rousted: To rout, especially out of bed.
4. Rousted: To awaken out of bed abruptly.
5. Verb
6. Q: Why did Sam roust Bartholomew out of bed before the
sun rose?
A: To get Bartholomew out of the bed so he could get an early
start; lots of work to be done.
7. Have students draw a Word Wizard Card
1. bloated (page 7, paragraph 5)
2. "To demonstrate, she pinched her nose and filled her cheeks.
I laughed to see her bloated face."
3. Bloated: 1. To cause to swell up or inflate,
as with liquid or gas. 2. To cure (fish) by soaking in brine and
half-drying in smoke.
4. Bloated: To become swollen.
5. Adjective
6. Q: Why was Annie's face bloated?
A: She was trying to demonstrate how two children looked when
they died.
7. Example of Word Wizard Card:
1. solemn (page 8, paragraph 2)
2. "James grew solemn"
3. Solemn: 1. Deeply earnest, serious, and sober.
2. Somberly or gravely impressive. See Synonyms at serious 3. Performed
with full ceremony: a solemn High Mass. 4. Invoking the force of
religion; sacred: a solemn vow. 5. Gloomy; somber. :
4. Solemn: Very serious and somber
5. Adjective
6. Q: Why did James grow solemn?
A: Because of what Annie had described about the two dead children.
7. Example of Word Wizard Card:
Character Sketcher
Your job is to find an interesting character from this section you
read today. You will find three words that describe the character.
For each word, or character trait, you will give the proof or example (including
page and paragraph). The next thing you will do is tell one of your
character goals, or what the character wants to do in this section.
Then you will find one of the character's problems in the section and the
solution or possible solution to the problem. Finally, you get to
have fun and illustrate your character!
Character Traits:
1. Insecure (page 2, paragraph 1) (Not confident):
He looks in the mirror and sees himself as an ugly disfigured person which
denotes that he is not a very confident person.
2. Bitter (page 39, paragraph 3): (Hated his
brother) He calls his brother several different names as he is protecting
his brother at the time.
3. Obedient (page 1, paragraph 3): He left his bed
without
complaint or delay.
Goal: His main goal is to become a master printer. His other goal is to respect his roots in the middle of a major conflict.
Problem: A war is coming and he has to choose sides: His tribe or who he works for.
Solution: He tries to find a compromise to satisfy both
his tribe and his employer.
Summarizer
Your job is to prepare a brief summary of today's reading. The
other members of your group will be counting on you to give a quick (one
to two minute) statement that tells the key points or the main highlights
of today's reading assignment.
Summary:
It's 1675, and Bartholomew Green is a printer's devil in his father's
print shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts — he sorts type, runs and fetches,
sweeps and scrubs. And he learns bookmaking from master apprentice, James
Printer, a Nipmuck Indian who is Bartholomew's friend as well as his teacher.
When tensions between the white settlers and local Indian tribes erupt
into war, the Pokanoket chief known as King Philip expects James's allegiance.
James cares more for the craft of printing than for war, and he has close
ties to the English. Though he does not want to take sides, it may be that
he has no choice...