Discussion Director
Your job is to find five questions from the reading
that you can
discuss with your group. They should include:
one on your own, one
character goal, one MCEOG, one cause/effect, and
one prediction.
1. (cause and effect) What causes Kit to
come to the conclusion that Mercy is in love with John Holbrook?
Answer: She sees Mercy staring at him intently
while he read to the family one evening (p.111, par. 5).
Passage Picker
Your job is to pick four passages from the reading
that you want to
discuss with your group. There are various reasons
for picking a
passage. For this section, pick passages for these
four reasons:
Word Wizard
Your job is to pick out at least five special words
from this section of
the reading. They should be words that you find
interesting or are not
familiar with. For each word you will need to
write the page and
paragraph where the word occurrs, the definition
of the word, the part
of speech,the sentence from the reading containing
that word, and
one sentence of your own containing the word.
One has been done for you.
You may also use impassive (p.93, par.8), unorthodox
(p.95, par.1), rapturously (p.99, par.3), or discern (p.110, par.5).
1. scandalized (p.95, par. 3)
2. definition: "to have one's moral sense
offended"
3. adjective
4. "Judith was scandalized."
5. My mother was scandalized when she caught
my older sister sneaking out of her bedroom at night.
Character Sketcher
Your job is to choose an intersting character
from this section of the
reading. You will think of three words that describe
that character
(character traits) and give the proof with the
page and paragraph
number. You will then tell one of the character's
goals for that section,
or something that the character wants to do. Next,
you will find one of
your character's problems for the section and
the solution or possible
solution to that problem. Finally,illustrate the
character.
Nat Eaton
Character traits:
