Matilda

Section 1: Pgs 1-55

Character Sketcher

Your job is to sketch Mr. Wormwood

Discussion Director

Your job is to write questions, find the answers to those questions, and write down the page and paragraph numbers where the answers can be found.  You really want to make your group think about what you all have just read.  You are trying to make sure everyone in your group understands or comprehends the reading.  It is very important that you ask your group fat, juicy, thinking questions and not easy, right there, in the book questions.  Be sure to ask good thinking questions! Choose 3 of the following topics for your questions:

Prediction Question

Setting Question

Point of View Question

Fact or Opinion Question

Italics Question

Passage Picker

Your job is to pick passages that exhibit 3 of the following:

Funny/Amusing

Cause/Effect

Informative

Descriptive

Surprising

Word Wizard

Your job is to complete a word wizard job for the following four words:

Diddled (page 23)

Inherited (page 24)

Seized (page 46)

Asinine (page 49)

Internet Investigator

Your job is to investigate a topic in the text that would help in understanding the book.

Investigate who Roald Dahl, the author, was.

Research the following sites and answer the questions:

http://www.who2.com/roalddahl.html

http://www.readathon.org/roald_dahl.html

http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/museum/dahl/about_rdgallery.stm

http://www.imbc-bookcollector.co.uk/Bibliographies/Authors/dahl_ronald/dahl_ronald.htm

1.) What was Roald Dahl’s favorite color?

2.) What is the name of the first book that Roald Dahl wrote?

3.) Where was Roald Dahl born?

4.) Gather at least five facts about Roald Dahl’s museum.

5.) What was the name of ten books that Roald Dahl wrote?