Matilda

Section 2: pgs 56-116

Character Sketcher

Your job is to sketch Miss Honey

Discussion Director

Your job is to ask questions, write the answers to your questions, and the page and paragraph numbers the answers can be found in. 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. Choose 3 of the following topics for your questions:

Cause/Effect

Opinion

Prediction

Plot

Main Idea

Mood

Passage Picker

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

Interesting

Dialect

Descriptive

Important

Humorous/Entertaining

Word Wizard

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

Corridor (page 59)

Eccentricities (page 67)

Aura (page 67)

Quivery (page 75)

Menacing (page 112)

Internet Investigator

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

Investigate what Limericks are.

Research the following sites and answer the questions:

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/limerickcontesthelp.cfm

http://www.umkc.edu/imc/limerick.htm

http://poetry-magazine.com/poetry/poetry-004/08page.htm

1.) What is the rhyme scheme of a limerick?

2.) Write your own limerick?

3.) What are three characteristics of a limerick?

4.) What is the name of a famous limerick?

5.) When is limerick day?