Character Sketcher
Your job is to draw a picture of either Gideon Adams, Toby Boyce, or Lily Malloy.

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:

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

Passage Picker
Pick 4 passages that exhibit the following:

1 Simile
1 On your own
1 Surprising
1 Informative

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:

Caliper  page 1 paragraph 3
Geysers page 11 paragraph 1
Tyrants page 17 paragraph 1
Handkerchiefs page 23 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
Which states fought on the side of the Union?  Which states fought on the side of the Confederacy?  Look at these sites for help:

  http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwararmies.htm
  http://www.civil-war.net/