CHARACTER
SKETCHER
Your job is to be character sketcher for
the day. You are to find traits about your character and use these
traits to introduce your character to other students in your group.
You will find three words, or traits, about your character. For each
trait, or word, you will give evidence that this trait fits your character
by referring to the page number and paragraph that you found this trait.
You will then identify the characters goals, or what the character is planning
to do in this book. You will also identify one of the characters
problems in the book and tell the solution or possible solutions to the
problem. Lastly, you will illustrate the character, or characters
to others in your group through a drawing. Remember that these traits
may not be directly stated, but are often implied so look deep.
Your Job is to sketch the following character:
Fudge
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DISCUSSION
DIRECTOR
As discussion director, your job is to form
questions about what you read in this book. You should evaluate the
topics, or ideas, that you feel are important and create questions that
give this meaning to your group. Be able to support your idea of
why you feel it is important and promote your group to think freely as
to why this topic may be important to them as well. Remember to be
creative and get your peers actively involved in discussing what they read
in the book. In order to get your group involved, you should create
6 questions to include the following:
Your job is to ask 6 questions, the answers
to your questions, and the p. and par. Where the answers are found (if
possible). Ask good thinking questions! As the following:
1 MCEOG
1 Prediction
1 Cause/Effect
1 “Thinking” Question on your own
1 Problem/Solution
1 Mood
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PASSAGE
PICKER
Your job is to be passage picker for the
day. You are to select passages that you feel are important to what
you have read in this book. You should be able to support why you
chose these passages and why they are important to what you read. You will
introduce each passage to the group by explaining its importance and meaning
to the reader. Don’t forget to write down your passages as well as
their page number and paragraph so you can guide your group member’s attention
to with any confusion. You will also need to record the first two
words and last two words found in the passage and write what type of passage
it is so that other students will know. Form questions about you
passages that encourages others to look deeper into their meanings.
Pick 4 passages that exhibit the following:
1 simile
1 surprising
1 controversial
1 On your own
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WORD WIZARD
Your job is to be word wizard for the day.
You will be given a list of words that are found in the text and may be
unfamiliar to you as well as your group members. You may use all
five of these words or use some of the words given to you and choose other
words in the text that you do not know. However, you must have a
total of five words. You will read the word in the context it is
written. You should write down the page number and paragraph that
the word is written for future reference. Write the sentence telling what
you think the word means in the story and the part of speech that it serves
in the story. Look up the word in the dictionary and write how it
adds meaning to the story. Finally, make the word wizard card that
contains all you have done.
Your job is to complete your role sheet
for the following words:
Stork p. 11 par. 4
Privileges p. 20 par. 13
Addicted p. 24 par. 3
Sublet p. 29 par. 5
Absentminded p. 36 par. 6
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CONNECTOR
Your job is to be connector for the day.
For this job you will come up with two questions that gets your group members
relating their personal experiences to connect to events that happen in
the book. You will be the one to lead the discussions about these
personal experiences. You will ask questions that will get your group
members involved.
Your job is to connect the book to the outside
world. Write a paragraph, answering one of these statements:
Explain how this story reminds you of any other book or story you have read or heard.
Does this part of the story remind you of anything that has happened to you, a friend, or a family member? Explain.
(Include who or what your connection is about,
where and when it happened, what happened, and how it connects or deals
with a part of the story.)
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