Character Sketcher
Your job is to draw a picture of the wounded Rebel soldier.

Discussion Director
Your job is to ask 6 questions, and the page and paragraph where the answers are found.  Ask good thinking questions!  Ask the following:

2 Prediction question
1 Cause/effect
1 MCEOG
2 Thinking questions on your own

Passage Picker
Pick 4 passages that exhibit the following:

1 Description
2 Figurative language
1 On your own

And do the following:
1. Pick out the passage and write the page and paragraph number.
2. Write down the first two words and last two words of your passage.
3. What kind of passage is this?
4. Why is this that type of passage?
5. Ask and answer a good thinking question.
6. Answer one of the following questions:  Why did the author choose to include this passage?  What does this passage add to the story?

Word Wizard
Create a role sheet for the following words:

Recollect page 40 paragraph 1
Prancy  page 42 paragraph 1
Deference page 43 paragraph 2
Hoisted page 51 paragraph 1

1. Write down the word, page and paragraph number.
2. Copy the sentence that this word is in.
3. Write down the part of speech and what you think the word means.
4. Look up the word in the dictionary, write YOUR definition of the word.
5. How does this word add meaning to the story.
6. Make a word wizard card.  Put the word, page and paragraph on one side of note card and on the other draw picture to represent the word.

Investigator
Find any other brothers or family members who fought in the civil war.  Write a paragraph describing who they were, where they are from and which member fought for which side of the war.  Check out some of the following websites for ideas:

  http://www.carolyar.com/civilwarStanford.htm
  http://members.aol.com/blueeyesdd/page/index22.htm
  http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/1117/stuckwar.html

Look at one of the above sites and write down the names of the family members,  on which side they fought, whether they lived or died, where they were from, and any other information about them.