The Silent Boy
Section 3, pgs 52-78
Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch Peggy Stoltz.
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 Description Question
1 Flashback Question
1 "Thinking" Question
1 Prediction Question
1 Characterization Question
Passage Picker
Your job is to pick passages that exhibit 3 of the following:
1 Historical
1 Flashback
1 Descriptive
For a sample job, click here
Word Wizard
Your job is to complete your role sheet for 4 of the following words:
scolded (pg 53, par 5)
mastoid (pg 54, par 2)
stealthily (pg 65, par 2)
concealed (pg 66, par 2)
murmured (pg 78, last paragraph)
Internet Investigator
Your job is to investigate a topic in the text that would help in understanding the book.
Investigate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Research the following website and answer the questions:
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
1. What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
2. When did the factory fire occur?
3. Who was effected in the fire?
4. What were the working conditions like for factory workers?
5. Why couldn't some of the workers escape the fire?