Your job is to develop a list of questions that your group will discuss about this part of the book.  Be
     sure to include different types of questions.  Examples: setting, problem solution, narrator, topic, main
     idea, cause effect, mood, character relationship, and compare/contrast.

Setting
1. What does the seventh paragraph on page 53 say about the time period of the book?  “She refuses to go to Meeting.  She reads books!  Not the Bible! Books!  She writes her thoughts down on parchment.  Surely this is not proper behavior for a young woman.”
(This tells that women were not allowed to do what they wanted.  They were forced to be very obedient and religious.)

Main Idea
2. What was the most important thing that happened in this section?
(A big turning point happened in this section.  Betty Paris claims that Tituba is trying to poison her.  She claims that Tituba is the reasoning for her outbursts, and fever.  This is a major theme in the book up to this point.  The story is based upon the Salem Witch Trials, and this is how they began.)

Characters
3. When Mrs. English learns about the afflicted girls what is her reaction?  What does this tell you about her character?
(Mrs. English is worried about the girls.  She does not believe in the practice of witchcraft, so she tries not to believe it.  This leads us to believe she is very strong in her faith, and she is not quick to pass judgment on people.  She is a very kind woman.)

Your job is to pick parts of the story that you want to talk about.  Choose passages that will lead to good
group discussion.  Include reasons like: informative, figurative language, descriptive, dialect, funny, scary,
suprising, and important.

The Steps:
1.  Pick out a passage you would like to share.
2.  Write down the page and paragraph number.
3.  Write down the first two words and the last two words of your passage.
4.  Write down the reason you chose the passage, and explain why.
5.  Ask a question about your passage, and give an answer.
6.  Write down the Author's purpose: to describe, to entertain, to inform or to persuade.
 
 

1. Choose Passage
2. p. 55 par. 3
3. “ She will…as a fox.”
4. I choose this because of the figurative language the author uses.  She uses a simile to describe how fast she is.
5. Identify the simile.
(“She is as nimble as a fox.”
6. Author's purpose: To describe.

1. Choose Passage
2. P. 69 par. 4
3. “And so…I discovered.”
4. I choose this passage because I feel like it is foreshadowing events to come in Salem.
5. Why do you think the author does not come out and tell you that many more bad things were going to happen in Salem?
(The author uses this passage to make the reader more excited to read.  It made me wonder what more was in store for the people of Salem.)
6. Author's Purpose:  To inform
 
 

Your job is to pick out words from the book that were difficult to understand.  This gives you the chance to
teach your classmates a few vocabulary words!

The Steps:

1.  Write down the word and include the page and paragraph number.
2.  Copy the sentence from the book in which the word appears.
3.  Look up the word in the dictionary.
4.  Using the context clues 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 down a question and the answer about the word that would help you teach the word to your
group.  Try to ask a question about the would that makes your group refer back to the text, or write a
sentence using the word wizard word.
7.  Make your word wizard card.  Be sure ot include in big print your word and the page and paragraph
number.  On the other side of your card should be a picture, the word and the definition of the word.
 
 
 

Hypocrites (p. 57 par. 3)	covey (p. 59 par. 2)	demeanor (p.60 par.5)
melancholy (p. 63 par. 2)	Malignant (p.60 par. 6)

 

1. Malignant (p.60 par. 6)
2. “She had a malignant fever.”
3. Look up
4. Of relating to tumors and abnormal rapid growth; causing death or great harm.
5. Adjective
6. Sentence using word: When Sally went to the doctor, he told her tumor was malignant.
7. Make card

1. Melancholy (p.59 par. 2)
2. “Melancholy gripped many.”
3. Look up
4. Excessively gloomy or sad
5. Adjective
6. Why were the people acting so melancholy?
(The people were experiencing a hard winter.  During this time period they didn't have the medicine and technology that we have today.  It was harder to fight off illness than it is today.)
7. See card

 
 
 

Your job is to find an interesting character from the chapters you read today.  You find three words that
describe the character.  For each word, or character trait, you will give the proof or an example.  Next, you
will tell one of your character's goals, or what the character wants to do in this chapter(s).  Then you will
find one of the character's problems in the section and the solution to the problem.  Finally, you get to
illustrate your character!
 

Your job is to find an interesting character from this section.  You will find three words to describe the character, and show proof of the trait.  Next you will pick out one of the character's goals.  Then it is your job to you find one of the character's problems and solution or possible solution.  Finally you need to illustrate your character using describing words from the text.

 

Character:  Abigail Hobbs
Character Traits:
Outdoors lover (p.53 par. 3)  Abigail insisted on living in the woods.  She ate and drank from the rivers.
Rebel  (p.53 par. 9) She reads and writes.  In this time that was not acceptable.  She longed to read poetry when she was in school instead of the Bible.
Observant  (p.57 par. 3-4)  She watches people and sees what some adults are doing.  She has caught people having affairs, which has caused her faith to weaken.

Character's Goals:
She wants desperately to get out of Salem, the place that traps her spirit.

Character's Problem/Solution:
She wants to get out of Salem because she does not agree with their teachings.  She feels the need to be unique even though it is looked down upon.  She is longing for attention by living in the woods.
Possible Solution:  She may try to get involved with the circle of girls.  Abigail is wise enough to see that what they are doing is in some ways what she wants to do.  They are rebelling their Puritan beliefs by naming people as witches.  She has found evil ways in people which makes her want to get out too.  By becoming associated with them she could have a bigger voice.

Your job is to get information on a topic.  You can get information from the library, magazines, encyclopedia, books, computer and interviews.  You may include geography, weather, culture, or history of the books setting.  Information about the author, her/his life, and other works.  Information about the time period portrayed in the book.  The history

For this section, these may be helpful resources to print out and read.
 

• http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

• http://www.salemweb.com/memorial/

• http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

• http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/