Character Sketcher
Your job is to draw a picture of either Clara Barton or the drummer boy.

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

Passage Picker
Pick 4 passages that exhibit the following:

1 Important
1 Figurative language
1 On your own
1 Surprising

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:

Reins  page 40 paragraph 8
Musket  page 41 paragraph 1
Trenches page 44 paragraph 4
Canteen page 54 paragraph 2

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
What was the role and purpose of the drummer boys in battle during the Civil War?  Write a page describing who these boys where, what they did, and why they were important.  Take a look at these sites to gain information to answer the questions and gather information.

  http://emints.more.net/ethemes/resources/S00000789.html
http://marston.sdcs.k12.ca.us/StudentWork/United90/2002/Children/Alissa/drummer.htm
 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/HMore/DRUMMERB.HTM