Section Five: pages 105-134
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.
Cause/Effect
1. Sarah Cloyce's
sister, Rebecca Nurse was named a witch. At church the people shunned
Sarah. What is causing the people of Salem to act like this?
effect: The
people have seen how easy it is to be named a witch. The people feel
like if they associate themselves with a "witch's" family they may too
be named a witch.
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.
126 par. 2-3
3. "As I picked...through
me."
4. I choose
this passage because of it's beautiful language. It is very descriptive
and calming.
5. Who does
this place probably make Susanna think of?
(My guess would
be her brother William. She thinks about him all of the time.
She happens to see a ship in the sky which was told to her by Tituba.
She probably thinks that William will be home soon.)
6. Author's
Purpose: To describe, to inform
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.
You can find your own words, or use some of these:
| thither (p. 106 par. 3) | sentiments (p. 109 par. 2) | recanted (p.113 par. 4) |
| may ham (p. 122 par. 4) | ensued (p. 109 par. 2) | apparition (p. 126 par. 6) |
| distraught (p. 109 par 6) | admonition (p. 126 par. 3) | dour (p. 127 par. 4) |
1. apparition (p. 126 par. 6)
2. "I do not know how much time
transpired as I stood there, my eyes fixed on that apparition."
3. Look up word
4. an unusual or strange appearance,
ghost like.
5. noun
6. sentence- Many people believe
that when they are close to death they see apparitions.
7. Make card
Character Sketcher
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!
Character:
Susanna English
Traits:
family oriented:
She loves every member of her family so dearly. She is really upset
when her mother is to be taken away. (p 130)
Observant:
On numerous occasions Susanna speaks of the things around her including
nature and such. (p. 134)
loving: She
has a big crush on Jonathan. (p. 107 par. 2)
Goals:
She wants her family
to remain safe from the witch nonsense. She wants to remain quiet
so that she will not be brought into the mess in Salem.
Problem/Solutions:
Her mother has now
been named a witch. Susanna was more powerful a few weeks ago because
of the information that she held. Now if she speaks up they will
be able to just name her a witch because of her mother. The girls
also are holding her other family members over Susanna's head. Solution:
Susanna could always stick up for her mother and speak up. This may
lead to her downfall, but otherwise she is left with major guilt.
Your job is to get information related to the topic. You can look in boks, magazines, computers, interviews, etc. For this section find websites with good pictures to share with the group about the Salem Witch Trials. Go to this National Geograhpic website and read the text and print the images to share.