CHARACTER SKETCHER

Your job is to sketch one of the following:  The Lion, Gorilla, 6 Little Monkeys or the Crocodile that are from the jungle.

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DISCUSSION DIRECTOR

Your job is to ask 5 questions, the answers to your questions, and the page and paragraph numbers where the answers are found (if possible).  Ask good questions!  Ask the following:

 

2 Cause and Effect Question

1 Setting Question

2 Thinking Questions

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PASSAGE PICKER

Pick 4 passages that exhibit the following:

 

1 Descriptive

1 On Your Own

1 Figurative Language

1 Interesting

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 WORD WIZARD

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

 

mangroves            pg. 64, par. 1

prancing               pg. 51, par. 2

invasion                pg. 70, par. 1

jackknife              pg. 72, par. 1

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INVESTIGATOR

Your job is to explore islands and the types of animals that live on several different islands.

 

http://www.gct.org/landfact.html

http://bird.miamisci.org/oceans/coralreef/introcoralreefselections.html

http://www.nps.gov/apis/sandscap.htm

 

Questions for you to investigate:

 

  1. Can all animals live on every island?
  2. Does there have to be certain circumstances for animals to live on an island?  What are they?
  3. Why can’t Tigers live under water?
  4. Why can’t fish live on land?
  5. Share two interesting facts with the class about the information you aquired.

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