Discussion Director
  A Break With Charity A Story About The Salem Witch Trials
by: Ann Rinaldi

                                                                             Section six: pages 135-165

Your job is to write down questions that your group can talk about.  Be sure to ask questions which will provoke thought
and some discussion in your group.  Ask about the setting, characters, relationships, point of view, and predictions.
 

In this section produce the following types of questions:


Passage Picker
 A Break With Charity A Story About The Salem Witch Trials
                                                                              by: Ann Rinaldi

                                                                          Section Two: pages 135-165
 

Your job is to choose passages that you and your group can talk about.  Choose passages that use Informative information,
figurative language, descriptive language, dialect, and ones that you enjoyed reading.
 
MCEOG
1.  What didn't the girls (Mary and Susanna) bring to their mother in jail?
        a.  delicacies
        b.  clean clothes
        c.  food
        d.  pictures
(d.  the girls did not bring pictures, p. 150)


Word Wizard
 A Break With Charity A Story About The Salem Witch Trials

                                                                              by: Ann Rinaldi

                                                                          Section Two: pages 135-165
 

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 your 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 makes your group refer back to the book.  You can also
write a sentence using the word.
7.  Make a word wizard card.  Be sure to include in big print your word and the page number and paragraph.  On the other
side of your card, draw a picture. the word, and the definition.

Feel free to choose you own words.  Here are a few suggestions:
 
 
blasphemy (p.135 par. 2) malignancy (p. 137 par. 2) smote (p. 141 par 4)
delicacies (p. 150 par. 3) chide (p. 150  par. 3) divulge (p. 150 par 5)
knell (p. 151 par 8) mayhap ( p. 152 par. 2) placid (p. 152 par. 3)

1.  delicacies (p. 150 par 3)
2.  "Mary cooked delicacies to bring."
3.  Look up word
4.  A special tasty treat.
 5.  noun
6.  I think chocolate is a delicacy
7. Make card



 
 

Character Sketcher
 A Break With Charity A Story About The Salem Witch Trials

                                                                              by: Ann Rinaldi

                                                                          Section Two: pages 135-165

Choose a character who was very importiant in this reading.  Complete the following steps:
-Find three character traits for this person.  Be sure to include proof
-Discuss the character's goals in this section
-Find the character's problem and possible solution for the section.
-Finally, illustrate your character using details from the story.
 

For this section use Joseph or Mary Putnam
 
 



 
 








Summarizer
 A Break With Charity A Story About The Salem Witch Trials

                                                                              by: Ann Rinaldi

                                                                          Section Two: pages 135-165

Your job is to pick out the key points in the reading.  Make sure you cover key points and major events that are important to the plot.  Make sure you include details of the Putnams.