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.  Cause- Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Mary Warren, Gertrude Pope, Susannah Sheldon, Mary Walcott, and Elizabeth Booth all went into a raging fit in the courtroom.  They acted like they were being tormented by some invisible, evil spirit.  The townspeople prayed for the girls to give name their abusers.
Effect- To make sure they didn't get caught, the girls blamed their pain on Tituba.

                                                                      Section Four: pages 78-104

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.91 par. 2
3.  "And, oh...turned away."
4.  I choose this passage for two reasons; figurative language and informative.  I liked the simile, "the anger flowed through me like a river."  I also liked how Ann turned and smiled slightly at Susanna because I was reassured that she was lying.
5.  What did Susanna say she wanted to do while Ann was making her scene?
(Susanna wanted to "run into the room and scream  out to al of them that she was lying."
6.  Author's Purpose: to persuade, to describe, to inform.

 WORD WIZARD

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.
 
You may choose your own words, or use some of these:
 

wharf (p.82 par. 2)	shallops (p.82 par. 4)	feigning (p. 85 par. 3)
casement (p.89 par. 5)	pronounced (p.88 par. 2)	smite (p. 91 par. 6)
unrepentant (p. 91 par. 6)	scepter (p. 92 par. 1)	spectral (p. 102 par. 6)

1.  wharf (p. 82 par. 2)
2.  "So I put my cloak on and walked through town in the sunshine, heading toward the wharf."
3.  Look up word
4.  A platform or pier at the edge of water where ships can load and unload.
5. noun
6. Are there many wharfs in this area?  Why/Why not?
(Speaking of the Appalachian area, no there are not any wharfs.  We are not close to a waterway where ships are trading goods.)
7. Make card

                                                                       Section One: pages 1-26

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: Ann Putnam
Traits:
 Bad Sense of humor- (p. 72 par. 2)  Even though she knows that she is being incredibly evil, she still laughs at her actions.  She giggles at the situation like she is funny.
clue less- (p.73 par. 2)  She thinks that the town wants the girls to name their tortures. She thinks that she will be doing Salem a favor by weeding out the evil, even though her actions are so cruel.
drama queen- (p. 90 par. 2) Ann is able to give an on-call performance by screaming and compulsing her body.  She is so good at acting, she is able to get the other girls following her lead.
Goals:
Ann's goal is to name people, who she thinks are bad, as being a practicing witch.  She hopes it will bring her attention.
Problem/Solution:
The problem that she is running into is that her game is being taken very seriously.  Ann is never going to be able to take back her words, or she would be in big trouble.  The possible solutions is that she continues to go into her rages, or she can act like they have all left her do to so much prayer in the town.

Illustrator

                                                                  Section Four: pages 78-104
Your job is to draw some kind of picture related to the reading.  It can be a sketch, cartoon diagram, flow chart, or stick figure scene.  You can draw a picture of something that's discussed specifically in the book, something that you read that reminded you of something, or a feeling that you got.  Use a separate piece of paper and write a descriptive paragraph of what you drew.
 
 
 

SCAN PICTURE HERE
 
 
 

This section reminded me of my trip to Salem, Massachusetts.  I went to a few museums where the witch trials were reenacted.  In the museums, they showed girls throwing themselves on the ground just like Ann did in this section.  I could almost hear their voices yelling as I read, so that is why I wanted to illustrate it.  My picture shows the girls enraged in the courthouse.  The people in the background are in disbelief of what is happening.  Their faces show that they are in shock, and are not sure of what to do.