Your Job is to sketch one of the following characters: Kenny, Willinghast, or Caleb.
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Discussion Director
Your job is to ask questions,
write the answers to your questions, and the page and paragraph in which
the answers can be found (if possible). Ask good thinking questions!
Choose 4 of
the following for your questions:
1 Prediction
1 Italics
1 mood
1 MCEOG
1 Point of View
2 "Thinking" Questions
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Passage Picker
Your job is to pick passages that exhibit 3 of the following:
1 Descriptive
1 Foreshadowing
1 Informational
1 Mysterious/scary
1 Interesting
1 Historical
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Word Wizard
Your job is to complete your role sheet for 3 of the following words:
musty
pg. 10 par. 2
ominously
pg. 11 par. 1
probe
pg. 13 par. 2
vague
pg. 15 par. 1
bantered
pg. 18 par. 6
parchment
pg. 24 par. 6
retain
pg. 25 par. 6
pried
pg. 26 par. 2
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Internet Investigator
Your job is to visit the following sites that give information on slave trading in Providence, Rhode Island in the late 1790s to early 1800s.
http://www.providence.edu/afro/students/kane/slave_trade.htm
http://tirocchi.stg.brown.edu/514/story/providence_1.html
Then, answer the following questions from the information given on those 2 sites. Once you have answered the questions, you will report the learned information to your group members.
Questions from 1st site:
1. Between 1709 and 1807, how many slaving voyages were sponsored by Rhode Island merchants to the coast of Africa?
2. Why was slave trade so important in Rhode Island?
3. Why was Rhode Island said to have monopolized the slave trade?
Questions from 2nd site:
1. What was the economy in Providence built on?
2. What gave Providence
an economical boost in 1835?