A Week in the Woods

Section 1, p. 1 – 21

Character Sketcher

Your job is to sketch Mr. Maxwell.

For an example, click here.

Discussion Director

Your job is to ask five questions, give the answers to your questions, and the page and paragraph number of where you found your answers.  Ask questions that will make you think!

1 Prediction, 1 Effect/Cause, 1 Plot, 1 Setting, 1 On Your On

Passage Picker

Your job is to pick four passages that exhibit the following:

1 Informative, 1 Important, 1 Surprising, 1 Descriptive

Word Wizard

Your job is to complete your roll sheet for the following words:

*checklist – p.1, par. 1

*antiques – p. 7, par. 3

*boarding school – p. 11, par. 3

*awkward – p. 20, par. 5

Internet Investigator

In the first section of A Week in the Woods, Mark and his family are moving to a new house in New Hampshire.  Your job is to look at the following website on New Hampshire and answer the questions:

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/misc/kids.html

1.                  What is the capital of New Hampshire?

2.                  When was the New Hampshire state flag adopted?

3.                  What is New Hampshire’s state nickname?  Why?

4.                  What is the state emblem and motto? 

5.                  When was the motto adopted?

6.         What is the official state sport of New Hampshire and when was it named so?