Character Sketcher
Your job is to draw a picture of either Jack, Anna, or the freedom fighter.

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

Passage Picker
Pick 4 passages that exhibit the following:

2 Descriptive
1 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:

Glaring page 10 paragraph 1
Confederate page 12 paragraph 1
Knapsack page 24 paragraph 8
Horse-drawn  page 25 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
Clara Barton was a famous Civil War Nurse.  Research more about Clara Barton and her role in field hospitals during the Civil War.  Look at the following sites, for information on Clara Barton:

  http://www.nps.gov/clba/
  http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Barton.html
  http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/barton.html

Answer the following questions:  What was Clara Barton’s role in the Civil War?  Which side was she on?  How old was she?   Where was she stationed?