The Silent Boy
Section 1, Pgs 1-23
Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch Katy Thatcher.
Discussion Director
Your job is to write questions, find the answers to those questions, and write down the page and paragraph numbers where the answers can be found. Be sure to ask good thinking questions! Choose five of the following for your questions:
1 Prediction Question
1 Setting Question
1 Point of View Question
1 Fact or Opinion Question
1 Italics Question
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Passage Picker
Your job is to pick passages that exhibit 3 of the following:
1 Historical (pg 4)
1 Mysterious/Intriguing (pg 17)
1 Descriptive (pg 5)
Word Wizard
Your job is to complete your role sheet for 4 of the following words:
asylum (pg 2, par 5)
curiosity (pg 4, par 4)
horrid (pg 8, par 5)
sympathetic (pg 12, par 1)
perception (pg 14, par 2)
flamboyance (pg 19, par 2)
Internet Investigator
Your job is to investigate a topic in the text that would help in understanding the book.
Investigate velocipede
Research the following sites and answer the questions:
http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/resource/articles/sawyer.htm.
http://sbhrs.org/museum/artifacts/velociped/velociped.htm
1. What is the definition of a velocipede?
2. What are velocipedes made out of?
3. What were velocipedes used for?
4. How are velocipedes and bicycles similar?
5. Why aren't velocipedes used anymore?