A Week in the Woods

Section 2, p. 22 – 44

Character Sketcher

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 Effect/Cause, 1 Setting, 2 On Your On, 1 Italics

For an example, click here.

Passage Picker

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

1 Important, 1 Funny/Amusing, 1 Descriptive, 1 Cause/Effect

Word Wizard

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

*architect – p. 24, par. 1

*pathetic – p.28, par. 1

*exclusive – p. 30, par. 3

*humanity – p. 43, par. 1

*photosynthesis – p. 44, par. 1

Internet Investigator

In the second section of A Week in the Woods, Mr. Maxwell talks to his students about the Hindenburg disaster.  Your job is to look at the following website on the Hindenburg disaster and answer the questions:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hindenburg1.html

1.                  What was the Hindenburg?

2.                  How big was the Hindenburg?

3.                  When did the Hindenburg disaster occur?

4.                  Who cried the now famous words, “Oh the Humanity!” when the Hindenburg crashed?

5.                  How many people were killed during the Hindenburg disaster?

6.                  What do they think caused the Hindenburg to crash?