Section 5 pp. 58-81
Character Sketcher
Complete a Character Sketcher for 1 of the following characters introduced in section 5: Badger, Smallest Fox, or Rat
Passage Picker
Your mission as a Passage Picker is to locate 3 passages that contain the following:
NOTE: For the author’s craft passage, explain why Dahl may have used this particular aspect of writing at this point. See if your group may have other ideas after you have shared your ideas.
Word Wizard
Your job is to create a Word Wizard for 3 of the following words:
vast p. 62 par. 3
poaching p. 65 par. 3
brute p. 69 par. 4
nabbed p. 71 par. 5
amid p. 76 par. 1
For the 2 words not chosen for Word Wizard:
1. Make up your own phrase about this section of the book using one of the words you did not choose. (example of phrase: p. 77 “MY HUSBAND IS A FANTASTIC FOX”)
2. Illustrate/draw one of the words you did not choose. Make the word based on what you believe it would taste, smell, look, hear, or feel like. HAVE SOME FUN!
Discussion Director
Your role as Discussion Director is to develop 5 questions dealing with section 5 of the reading. You need to include the answers to your questions and pages in the section where your answers can be found. Choose from these question types:
Internet Investigator
As an internet investigator, your job will be to look in books or these websites to find out about how foxes really live. Once you have looked through the websites, present to the group whether or not Dahl did an accurate description of how a fox may have lived throughout this story.
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/animals/fox.html