Lesson 4: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Discussion Director: Your job is to ask 5 questions, have answers for your questions, and the page and paragraph numbers where the answers are found.

1 descriptive

1 surprising

1 cause/effect

1 on your own

1 MCEOG

Character Sketcher: Sylvester

Passage Picker: Your job is to pick 4 passages that exhibit the following:

1 descriptive

1 surprising

1 important

1 on your own

Word Wizard: Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following words:

Extraordinary p. 2 par. 1

Gratified p. 4 par. 1

Inquiring p. 11 par. 1

Perplexing p. 7 par. 3

Aimlessly p. 26 par. 1

Connector: Your job is to connect the book to the outside world. Write a paragraph, connecting one of the following passages from the book to your life or someone you know.

p. 2 “I wish it would stop raining”, he said

p. 6 “If he hadn’t…father and mother”.

P. 7 “I wish …a rock”.

p. 17 “They tried…usual ways.”

I can connect with a lot of things from this book. For example on page 2, when Sylvester wishes that it would stop raining, I could relate. A couple of weeks ago, it was raining and I wished it would stop because I had to walk to class. Other times, I have wished it to stop raining because I had something planned to do outside or I just wanted to enjoy the weather. Sylvester was trying to enjoy the weather when it started to rain.