Fair Weather
Your job is to sketch one of the following characters: Lottie, Buster, or Rosie.
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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 point of view
One mood
One setting
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Pick passages that exhibit 4 of the following:
Metaphor
Information
Historical
Interesting
Dialect
Problem/solution
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Your job is to complete your role sheet for 3 of the following words:
Loom p 20
Bustle p. 18
Cahoots p. 11
Barter p. 7
Privy p.2
Awash p. 28
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Your job is to explore given web sites and given questions to investigate relevant information in the book.
Investigate the songs Lottie and Rosie are singing on page 20 with these websites:
http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/usa/silthred.htm - “Silver Threads Among the Gold”
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/justbef.html - “Just Before the Battle, Mother”
http://www.archeophone.com/Resources/Recordings/403.html - “Just Before the Battle, Mother”
1.) How do these songs compare to the songs you listen to? How are the similar/different?
2.) How did the historical events of the time influence the lyrics of these songs?
3.) How are the instruments used in these songs different from the ones we listen to in today’s time?
4.) Would you listen to this type of music regularly in today’s time, why or why not?
5.) How are the two songs similar/different from each other?