A NOVEL OF REBELLION
By: Paul Samuel Jacobs
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Fifth Grade (above grade level)
Section 6 (pages 148-174)
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
1 Descriptive
2 Cause Effect
Passage Picker
Section 6 (pages 148-174)
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
Cause/Effect
Theme
Moral
Here is an example of one:
1. Figurative Language
2. Page 169, Paragraph 1
3. "Now my father laughed. There's little money in that,
my son. I fear we shall all be sleeping in a barrel"
4. Now my...a barrel
5. chose this passage because it is slang used in this
day to describe poverty.
6. (Q) What might someone say today to accurately describe poverty
in slang?
(A) I might say we might end up sleeping in a cardboard box.
7. Author's Purpose: Figurative language to describe
slang for poverty
Character Sketcher
Section 6 (pages 148-174)
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 character’s
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!
Elizabeth Clark (page 151)
Word Wizard
Section 6 (pages 148-174)
Your job is to look for special words in the story. On your recording
sheet, write down the following:
1. Write down the word
2. Copy the sentence from the book in which the word appears
3. Look up the word in the dictionary
4. Using context clues from the sentence and the dictionary definition,
write down in your own words the definition of the word
5. Write down the correct part of speech (noun, verb, adjective,
adverb)
6. Write a sentence of your own with word in it.
7. Make your word wizard card. Be sure to include in big
print your word and the page and paragraph number. On the other side
of the card should be a picture, the word, and the definition of the word.
1. Unruly (page 165, paragraph 3)
2. "Did you and I, Sam Green, not share many a glass together?
the prisoner asked, his face twisted, his hair unruly"
3. Unruly: Not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed
4. Unruly: referring to his hair being messed up
5. Part of speech: Adjective
6. Q: Why does the author use this word in this sentence?
A: He is trying to get the reader to actually visualize the expression
on the prisoner's face.
7. Have students draw a Word Wizard Card
Other words:
1) cider (page 149)
2) flintlock (page 151)
3) wrath (page 155)
Investigator
Your job is to dig up some background information on any topic related
to your book. This might include: