Character Sketcher
Your job is to draw a picture of Dietrich Herz’s entire division marching.

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 Cause/effect
2 Setting
1 Thinking question on your own
1 Mood
1 MCEOG

Passage Picker
Pick 4 passages that exhibit the following:

2 Figurative language
1 Descriptive
1 Foreshadowing

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:

Brood  page 53 paragraph 1
Feigned page 58 line 9
Tourniquets  page 68 paragraph 1
Millstone page 72 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
What is the origin and history of the song “The Star Spangled Banner”, as mentioned on page 52?  Here are some web sites to help you out:

  http://web8.si.edu/nmah/htdocs/ssb-old/2_home/fs2.html
  http://www.150.si.edu/chap3/flag.htm
  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194015.html