Matilda
Section 4: pgs 177-227
Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch Matilda
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 4 of the following topics for your questions:
MCEOG
Figurative Language
Genre
Point of View
Italics
Theme/Moral
Compare/Contrast
Villain
Passage Picker
Your job is to pick passages that exhibit 4 of the following and complete the job:
Scary/Frightening
Controversial
Important
Step by Step
Dialect
Descriptive
Word Wizard
Your job is to complete the word wizard job for the following five words:
Phenomenon (page 179)
Probing (page 193)
Petrified (page 201)
Vital (page 212)
Colossal (page 213)
Internet Investigator
Your job is to investigate a topic in the text that would help in understanding the book.
Investigate who and what heroines are.
Research the following sites and answer the questions:
http://www.pipelinenj.com/HeroHeroine.htm
http://www.surfnetkids.com/heroes.htm
http://myhero.com/directory/index.html
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets.html
1.) Who do you think is a good example of a heroine? Why?
2.) What are at least five characteristics that a heroine should have?
3.) Give me an example of a heroine from the past.
4.) What are the names of five great heroines of the past? What did they do that was so special?
5.) Use examples from the websites to tell me why Matilda was, or was not a heroine.