Matilda
Section 3: pgs 117-176
Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch Miss Trunchbull
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:
MCEOG
Fact/Opinion
Characterization
Problem/Solution
Heroine
Setting
Sequence
Passage Picker
Your job is to pick passages that exhibit 3 of the following:
Foreshadowing
Scary/Frightening
Informative
Controversial
Humorous/Entertaining
Word Wizard
Your job is to complete the word wizard job for the following five words:
Menacing (page 112)
Perseverance (page 131)
Indelible (page 152)
Reformatory (page162)
Transfigured (page 175)
Internet Investigator
Your job is to investigate a topic in the text that would help in understanding the book.
Investigate what newts are. The Smooth Newt is the newt that is most commonly found in England where Ronald Dahl is from and where Matilda probably lives.
Research the following sites and answer the questions:
http://www.uksafari.com/smoothnewts.htm
http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/educate/pondpack/newts.htm
http://marinebiology.lsz.ntu.ac.uk/marinebiology/newts.htm
1.) What months do the smooth newts breed?
2.) Does the smooth newt live on land or in water?
3.) Describe what the smooth newt looks like.
4.) How long does the smooth newt approximately grow to?
5.) What do smooth newts eat?
6.) Where do newts commonly live?