Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day

Section 2 pg. 22-47

Discussion Director

Your job is to write good, thought-provoking questions about this section of the story for your group to respond to. You also need to complete the Discussion Director job sheet. Write the answers to these questions and, if possible, the page numbers on which the answers can be found. These questions should involve 5 of the following:

• Characterization

• Theme/Moral

• Mood

• Genre

• Cause and Effect

Passage Picker

Select passages from this section of the book that you think are interesting or that you would like to discuss with the rest of your group. You should also complete the Passage Picker job sheet. The passages you choose should exhibit 3 of the following:

• Fact/Opinion

• Funny/Amusing

• Foreshadowing

• Melancholy/Sad

Word Wizard

You will complete the Word Wizard role sheet and make Word Wizard cards using 3 of the words listed below. These words came from this section of your book.

• Sportsmanship (pg.25)

• Merchandise (pg.27)

• Apparently (pg.41)

• Nitwit (pg.44)

• Slumped (pg.47)

Character Sketcher

Your job is to complete the Character Sketcher role sheet and to sketch one of the following characters (not the same character you sketched in the last section):

New Thelma, Paulie Allen Puffer, Junie B. Jones

Internet Investigator

Your job is to go to the websites listed below that relate to Velcro and answer the questions.

http://www.americanplasticscouncil.org/benefits/about_plastics/history.html

Scroll down until you get to the listing for "Velcro" and read what it says.

• What type of vegetation was Velcro modeled after?

• In what year was Velcro created?

http://www.thefunnybone.com/topsubmissions/submit879564522.shtml

• Is this a serious website or is it a joke? How do you know?

• Which use of Velcro do you think is the funniest?

How was Velcro used in Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day?