From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Section 5: pages 43-66

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Character Sketcher

Your Job is to sketch one of the following characters (that you did not sketch last time in your group):  Claudia or Jamie.

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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 MCEOG
1 Fact/Opinion
1 Setting
1 Main idea
1 Italics
1 Figurative Language
1 Cause/Effect

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Passage Picker

Your job is to pick passages that exhibit 3 of the following:

1 Simile
1 Informational
1 Descriptive
1 Foreshadowing
1 Important
1 Historical

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Word Wizard

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

sarcophagus       pg. 44   par. 3
perilous               pg. 45   par. 1
billowy                 pg. 50   par. 1
inconspicuous    pg. 52    par. 1
embalm               pg. 55    par. 2
acquisition          pg. 58    par. 2
curators              pg. 59     par. 2
amassed             pg. 60   par. 1

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Internet Investigator

Your job is to visit the following website showing artwork from the Italian Renaissance.  Then, you will answer the questions that follow.  Once you have answered the questions, you will share your learned information to your group.

Look at each of the images and then answer the questions that follow.

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/result.asp

Questions:

1.  Which was your favorite?  Why?

2.  Which was your least favorite?  Why?

3.  Why do you think that it is important to view paintings from the Italian Renaissance in order to get a feel for the artwork that Claudia and Jamie saw in the museum?