Discussion Director
Your job is to think of questions that will get your group thinking.  Ask the following types of questions, answer them, and include the page and paragraph numbers where the answer can be found.
1 Cause and Effect
1 Opinion
1 Setting
1 Point of View
1 Problem/Solution
1 MCEOG

Passage Picker
Your job is to complete the role sheet for the following types of passages.
1 Sarcastic
1 Thematic
1 Problem/Solution
1 Figurative Language (idiom)

Word Wizard
Your job is to complete the role sheet for four of the following words:
Optometrist            p. 10, par. 2
Evacuated              p. 15, par. 1
Downcast               p. 23, par. 2
Electrified              p. 26, par. 1
Administration       p. 26, par. 1
Miraculously          p. 27, par. 4
Barrack                  p. 28, par. 3

Character Sketcher
Your job is to complete the role sheet for the character Mama.

Investigator
Your job is to investigate “Life in America in 1942.”  Use the reference section in the back of the book to answer the following questions.
What happened on December 7, 1941?
What did President Roosevelt do in response to the attack?
How did it affect the way Japanese-Americans were treated?
How many internment camps were there in the US?
What were they like?
How many Japanese-Americans were sent to these camps?
Were the accusations toward the Japanese-Americans true?