Nightjohn
Section 1
(pgs. 1-41)
CHARACTER SKETCHER
Your job is to sketch one of the following
characters: Sarny, Nightjohn,
Clel Waller, or Mammy.
DISCUSSION DIRECTOR
Your job is to ask 5 questions, provide the
answers to your questions, and supply the page and the paragraph where the
answers are found. Make sure your questions are “big and meaty,” not “short and
skinny!” Ask questions from the following categories:
1 Fact/Opinion
1 Setting
1 Problem/Solution
1 Prediction
1 “Thinking” Question
of your own
PASSAGE
PICKER
Pick four passages
that exhibit the following:
1 descriptive
2 dialect
1 simile
WORD WIZARD
Your job is complete
your role sheet for the following words:
Shackle p. 26 par. 2
Sassafras p. 28 par. 1
Overseer p. 30 par. 1
Wet nurse p. 16 par. 1
CONNECTOR
Your job is to connect
the book to the outside world. Ask yourself these questions, and write a
paragraph about one of them:
v
Explain how the story reminds you of any
other book or story you have read or heard.
v
Does this part of the story remind you
of a movie or television how you have seen?