Character Sketch
Your job is to draw a picture of what you think General Beauregard looks like?

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 Setting
1 Problem/Solution
1 Prediction
1 Thinking on your own
1 MCEOG

Passage Picker
Pick 4 passages that exhibit the following:

1 Fact/opinion
1 Interesting
1 Metaphor
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:

Dismal  page 27 paragraph 2
Pantaloons page 31 paragraph 1
Brigadier page 36 line 4
Rebuked page 47 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 the words for the following songs mentioned on page 43:  “Yankee Doodle”, “Rally Round the Flag, Boys”, and “The Girl I Left Behind Me”.  Use these sites for help:

  http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/yankeedoodle.html
  http://www.countrygoldusa.com/battle_cry_of_freedom.asp
  http://www.contemplator.com/folk/girl.html