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Section Four Plan p. 98-end

Character Sketcher

Your job is to sketch one of the following characters: Buffalo Bill, Lillian Russell, or Tip.

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Discussion Director

Your job is to ask questions, write the answers to your questions, and the page and paragraph the answers are found (if possible). Ask good “thinking” questions! Choose five of the following examples to use in the questions you want to ask:

One simile/metaphor

One characterization

One prediction

One personification

One characterization

One mood

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Passage Picker

Pick a passage that exhibit 4 of the following:

Surprising

Information

Controversial

Interesting

Descriptive

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Word Wizard- click here for an example

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

Cravat p. 98

Shroud p. 99

Amid p. 102

Crane p. 118

Parasol p. 119

Askew p. 119

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Internet Investigator

Your job is to explore given web sites and given questions to investigate relevant information in the book.

Investigate Buffalo Bill with these websites and answer the following questions:

http://www.bbhc.org/bbm/index.cfm

http://www.bbhc.org/bbm/biographyBB.cfm

1.)  Why was Buffalo Bill famous?

2.)  Were the things said about Buffalo Bill in the book the same as you read on these websites?

3.)  Was Buffalo Bill a hero, why or why not?

4.)  How did he get the name “Buffalo Bill”?

5.)  If you had the opportunity to meet Buffalo Bill what one question would you ask him, why?

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