Section 1 pp. 11-36

Chapter 1 “The First Day of School”

 

 

Discussion Director

Your job is to ask 4 questions, write the answers to your questions, and the page number and the paragraph number where the answers are found (if possible). Ask good thinking questions.

 

1 Prediction

1 Character

1 MCEOG

1 Sequence

2 “Thinking” Questions on your own

 

Passage Picker

Pick passages that exhibit 3 of the following:

 

1 funny/amusing

1 descriptive

1 informative

1 dialect

1 foreshadowing

 

Word Wizard

Your job is to complete your role sheet for 3 of the following words:

 

Quivery               p. 11

Scarce                  p. 17

Dreaded               p. 17

Cross                   p. 19

Boasted               p. 22

Stubborn             p. 23

Encumbered        p. 29

Reprimand           p. 35

 

Character Sketcher

Your job is to sketch on of the following characters: Ramona, Beezus, or Willa Jean.

 

Internet Investigator

Go to this website <http://www.multcolib.org/kids/rmona2.html>

Read the description of the “busts of Ramona” found in the Gresham Regional Library in Oregon. Draw a bust that represents Ramona in this book “Ramona Quimby, Age 8.” Be sure to include a quote from this section of the book that most represents the bust that you created.

 

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