A Long Way from Chicago

 

Section Six Plan p.37-61

 

Character Sketcher

Your job is to sketch a character in this section.

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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 characterization

One prediction

One mood

One setting

One cause/effect

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Passage Picker

Pick a passage that exhibit 4 of the following:

 

Foreshadowing

Descriptive

Dialect

Surprising

Important

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Word Wizard

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

 

Waft p. 38

Delicacy p. 40

Stagnant p. 42

Bootlegger p. 45

Spry p. 52

Dawdle p. 54

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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 The Great Depression through these websites and answer the following questions:

 

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm

http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~celaine/joc/urd00/sld004.htm

http://www.indianchild.com/the_great_depression.htm

 

1.)  After reviewing these websites, do you notice any similarities between the information in the book and information in the websites, list similarities?

2.)  How do the pictures make you feel?

3.)  Were all of the effects of the Great Depression evident in the book?

4.)  Which website did you find more informative, more interesting?

5.)  What is something interesting that you learned from these websites?