April 21/22, 2009
Students handed in their Vietnam War Interviews today. These may still come in next time for full points.
Is Tree's grandpa a hero?
We discussed the essay the students will write in computer lab on Thursday and Friday, April 23/24. See the assignment in the post below: "April 23/24 Computer Lab -- Heroes Assignment"
Students took their test on the Seventh Grade Confusing words. Those who received a score below 19 out of the possible 24 will be retaking the test, so should be studying these. There is a printable list on our class wiki.
We also discussed the upcoming state core tests, and took a practice test.
Showing posts with label Stand Tall Novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stand Tall Novel. Show all posts
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
April 6/7, 2009
April 6/7, 2009
1. Test prep. practice -- Prefix/Suffix Bingo. You need to know the seventh grade suffixes and prefixes. We will test again on those and on the seventh grade confusing words. See a post in this blog for lists, or see Ms. Dorsey's school web page, or see the class wiki for documents from which you can make copies.
2. Using Possessives! Students filled in notes about using apostrophes to show possession.
3. Stand Tall -- Read and answer questions from the packet. We are reading through chapter 3 today, and some classes may get further. See the wiki for the second part of the packet for Stand Tall.
Next time we will be in the computer lab
1. Test prep. practice -- Prefix/Suffix Bingo. You need to know the seventh grade suffixes and prefixes. We will test again on those and on the seventh grade confusing words. See a post in this blog for lists, or see Ms. Dorsey's school web page, or see the class wiki for documents from which you can make copies.
2. Using Possessives! Students filled in notes about using apostrophes to show possession.
3. Stand Tall -- Read and answer questions from the packet. We are reading through chapter 3 today, and some classes may get further. See the wiki for the second part of the packet for Stand Tall.
Next time we will be in the computer lab
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
March 31/ April 1, 2009
March 31/ April 1, 2009
April 1 is your last day to hand in the book approval for on-time points (20 points out of 10).
QUIZ ON SUBJECTS, PREDICATES, AND IDENTIFYING DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT CLAUSES for A-Day students.
Test Preparation -- Recognizing Appropriate Sentence Construction
Students are working on this test practice in pairs.
Sentence Rehabilitation Race -- Students worked with parters to "rehabilitate" fragments, comma-splices, and run-ons into complete, correct sentences. (If you are absent, get the paper from the class folders, and do this on your own to hand in.)
Stand Tall
B2 needs to discuss pages 1 and 2 of the packet.
B-Day needs to look at the poem at the beginning of the book.
Start reading Stand Tall. We read pages 1-3, and answered the question about Mrs. Pierce in the packet. If you have lost your packet, you may go to the class wiki and print off another copy for yourself. Find it in the folder for Stand Tall.
April 1 is your last day to hand in the book approval for on-time points (20 points out of 10).
QUIZ ON SUBJECTS, PREDICATES, AND IDENTIFYING DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT CLAUSES for A-Day students.
Test Preparation -- Recognizing Appropriate Sentence Construction
Students are working on this test practice in pairs.
Sentence Rehabilitation Race -- Students worked with parters to "rehabilitate" fragments, comma-splices, and run-ons into complete, correct sentences. (If you are absent, get the paper from the class folders, and do this on your own to hand in.)
Stand Tall
B2 needs to discuss pages 1 and 2 of the packet.
B-Day needs to look at the poem at the beginning of the book.
Start reading Stand Tall. We read pages 1-3, and answered the question about Mrs. Pierce in the packet. If you have lost your packet, you may go to the class wiki and print off another copy for yourself. Find it in the folder for Stand Tall.
Monday, March 23, 2009
March 23/24, 2009
March 23/24, 2009
Pick up your composition books.
1. Test Preparation exercise -- Reading for main idea and details. (If you were absent, see me for a copy of the practice test questions.)
2. When finished, write in your composition book: Whom do you consider a hero and why?
3. Receive Book-of-the-Month Approvals and Reading Logs.
Look for a book you could highly recommend to other students.
We will go to the media center next time.
4. Sentenced! (Here comes the Judge! Oh, Brother. . .)
Sentenced to the "chain gang," chaining together words and punctuation to create complete, correct sentences.
Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to yourself about what you understand and don't understand about sentences.
How much do YOU know about sentences?
Verbs -- the Core of the sentence, the most important part.
Subjects of the sentence (nouns or their replacements) -- Answer (or ask) the question who or what is the verb giving information about?
If you were absent, see me for the worksheet students filled out while watching a PowerPoint about sentences. You may ask a classmate for the answers to fill in your paper.
We played a game to practice identifying subjects and verbs.
Coming Attractions:
-- Heroes and the novel Stand Tall
Superman? Vietnam War, being different, going through hard times, helping others
Who is a hero? Why? What are the qualities of a hero? Can you be a hero?
-- What is the difference between an independent clause (a sentence) and a dependent clause?
-- More test preparation
The etymology of the word Sentence:
c.1290, "doctrine, authoritative teaching," from O.Fr. sentence (12c.), from L. sententia "thought, meaning, judgment, opinion," from sentientem, prp. of sentire "be of opinion, feel, perceive" (see sense). Loss of first -i- in L. by dissimilation. Meaning "punishment imposed by a court" is from c.1300; that of "grammatically complete statement" is attested from 1447, from notion of "meaning," then "meaning expressed in words." The verb meaning "to pass judgment" is recorded from c.1400.
Pick up your composition books.
1. Test Preparation exercise -- Reading for main idea and details. (If you were absent, see me for a copy of the practice test questions.)
2. When finished, write in your composition book: Whom do you consider a hero and why?
3. Receive Book-of-the-Month Approvals and Reading Logs.
Look for a book you could highly recommend to other students.
We will go to the media center next time.
4. Sentenced! (Here comes the Judge! Oh, Brother. . .)
Sentenced to the "chain gang," chaining together words and punctuation to create complete, correct sentences.
Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to yourself about what you understand and don't understand about sentences.
How much do YOU know about sentences?
Verbs -- the Core of the sentence, the most important part.
Subjects of the sentence (nouns or their replacements) -- Answer (or ask) the question who or what is the verb giving information about?
If you were absent, see me for the worksheet students filled out while watching a PowerPoint about sentences. You may ask a classmate for the answers to fill in your paper.
We played a game to practice identifying subjects and verbs.
Coming Attractions:
-- Heroes and the novel Stand Tall
Superman? Vietnam War, being different, going through hard times, helping others
Who is a hero? Why? What are the qualities of a hero? Can you be a hero?
-- What is the difference between an independent clause (a sentence) and a dependent clause?
-- More test preparation
The etymology of the word Sentence:
c.1290, "doctrine, authoritative teaching," from O.Fr. sentence (12c.), from L. sententia "thought, meaning, judgment, opinion," from sentientem, prp. of sentire "be of opinion, feel, perceive" (see sense). Loss of first -i- in L. by dissimilation. Meaning "punishment imposed by a court" is from c.1300; that of "grammatically complete statement" is attested from 1447, from notion of "meaning," then "meaning expressed in words." The verb meaning "to pass judgment" is recorded from c.1400.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
May 8, 2008
May 8, 2008
In A1 we had a special guest speaker -- Mr. Tom Napierski, who talked with us about his experiences as an amputee. (Grandpa Leo in Stand Tall is an amputee.) I video-taped him, so we will watch the video tape in the other classes later. The theme of his presentation (and a major theme in the book Stand Tall) is that when we lose something, instead of focusing on what we have lost, we can focus on what we still have.
Students continued to read from Stand Tall, and we continued Book Talks.
The Vietnam War interviews were due today.
Chapters 4-14
Text: The novel Stand Tall by Joan Bauer -- This genre of this novel is realistic fiction.
Reading strategies: Activating Background Knowledge, Using Q.A.R.’s, Inferring, Summarizing, Making Connections
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 4:
Vocabulary Notes:
Mediocre - adjective (page 25) means neither good nor bad; average; ordinary; commonplace.
Epoxy – noun (page 26) is a heat-setting resin used as an adhesive (glue)
1. What is the coach’s name? (Right there.) _____________________ Why do you think Joan Bauer might have chosen that name for Tree’s basketball coach? (QAR:Author and You. Inference)
______________________________________________________________________________________
2. There is a plaque on the wall in the gym that says “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Do you agree or disagree with that? Explain why. (QAR: On your own) ________
____________________________________________________
3. What inference would most people probably make about Mona Arnold when told that she was born in Ethiopia in eastern Africa? ___________________________________________________
4. On page 28, Mona asks Tree’s grandpa, “So, what have you got, Leo?” She is asking him to look at what he has instead of at what he doesn’t have. He doesn’t have two complete legs, but he can name several important things he does have. What do you have? ___________________
5. Who is Sully, and what “disability” does Sully have? ___________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 5:
6. Where is Tree as this chapter begins? _______________________________________________
7. At the top of page 33, who is speaking? ______________________________________________
8. He says, “Never be a person who wants ___________________,” and
“_______________________________________ is the only reason to ever fight.”
9. On page 37, we’re told, “Occasionally something awful, like divorce, can have a good side.” What just happened that brought up a “good side” of the divorce in Tree’s family? _____________
________________________________________________________________________________
6. What does his brother Larry call Tree? ______________________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 6:
7. Who is Conan? (“Right there”) ____________________________________________________
8. Why does Tree think his grandpa is made of “tough stuff”? _____________________________________
9. What is the prayer that Tree’s grandpa says almost every day? ___________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 7: Summarize
10. Summarize chapter 7 in the box below. Remember to keep events in the same order they’re told in the story.
11. “Tree wondered if divorce was like war and always had a lasting effect on the people who went through it.” What do you think? ____________________________________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 8
12. After reading page 50, what do you think of Sophie Santack? _____________________________________
13. Tree thinks, “Sometimes it felt like every seat in the world was saved for somebody else.” Explain what he means. __________________________________________________
14. Who is Lassie (in this story)? ____________________________________________________
15. What two jobs is Sophie considering for when she grows up. She says, “one way or the other, I’m going to take care of problems.” _______________________________________________
16. Would you like to have a job taking care of problems? Why or why not? _________________
______________________________________________
17. What is Sophie’s motto? _________________________________________________________
18. What does Tree decide is his motto? _______________________________________________
19. What is your motto? ____________________________________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 9
20. Does what Grandpa says about grenades describe a helpful way to handle it when people say cruel things? How? ________________________________________________________
What do grenades have in common with cruel words? ________________________________________
21. According to Mona, what can disabled people do? ___________________________________
22. The coach makes the Pit Bulls Basketball team sign up for _____________________________
23. If Tree could have changed one thing about himself, what would it have been? _________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 10
Recognizing Parts of Speech
For each numbered word, write the part of speech each it acts as in the sentences. (Reminder: The parts of speech are noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection.)
1 2 3 4 5 6
Cars were pulling up to the entrance. Girls in dresses got out excitedly.
7 8 9 10
Boys in badly fitting suits slumped in misery toward the front door.
1. Cars _______________________ 6. excitedly _______________________
2. were pulling up ______________ 7. slumped _______________________
3. to __________________________ 8. toward ________________________
4. entrance ____________________ 9. the ____________________________
5. in __________________________ 10. front __________________________
Chapter 10, cont.
24. What is the setting at the beginning of Chapter 10? __________________________________
25. According to Sheila, “We begin dancing like we begin most new things. . .”
How do we “begin most new things”? _______________________________________________
26. Grandpa says the secret to fighting a war is to
“hold on to the things you ______________________________________,
“set your ___________________________________________________,
and “______________________________________________________________.
27. Grandpa also says “War does that – it blows things up and leaves
_______________________________________________________________”
“I’ll tell you something about empty places. They don’t get filled in right away.
You’ve got to look at them straight on, see what’s still standing.
Concentrate on __________________________________________________________.”
28. In which other chapter and question were you asked about what you have? _______________
Read these instructions, and then read Chapter 11
29. Summarize chapter 11 in the box below. Remember to include the most important things that happen, and keep them in the order they happened in the chapter.
__________________________________________________________________________
Name _____________________________________________ Period ____ Date ______________
Text: The novel Stand Tall by Joan Bauer -- This genre of this novel is realistic fiction.
Reading strategies: QAR’s, expressing opinions, inferring, summarizing, noticing the reader’s alignment
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 12
30. “Let’s go with what we’ve got Grandpa.” Who says this, and why? ______________________
________________________________________________________________________________
31. Who is the Trash King? (Q.A.R. “Think and Search. See also pages 57-58.) ______________
________________________________________________________________________________
32. Do you think it’s a good idea or not to have a Santa in a wheelchair visit children in the hospital as Leo does? Why? ________________________________________________________
33. Why did Tree feel taller at the end of chapter 12? ___________________________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 13
34. Larry is ____________________________________. (Who is he?)
Bradley is __________________________________. (Who is he?)
35. Why is Larry drinking? __________________________________________________________
36. Page 87 – Grandpa says, “That’s what it comes down to sometimes – forgetting how you______;
being ____________ in front of your ______________.”
37. From where do Grandpa, Tree, Curtis, and Larry steal a Christmas tree? ________________________________________________________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 14
38. Vocabulary: Use context clues to figure out a word.
If Tree’s mom has a small Serenity Fountain that sits on a table top and has “gentle, gurgling water [cascading] over small, peaceful rocks” and “That is what her life would become. Someday,” then Serenity (noun) must mean _________________________________________________________
39. Tree’s mom wants to have a perfect Christmas dinner with her sons. What goes wrong?
_________________________________________________________________________
40. Chapters 12-14: What is your alignment? In other words, from where or how are you seeing the story? ______________________________________________________________________
Remember when we read Words By Heart, and talked about how we saw a scene: as if watching a movie, as if you were the main character, standing nearby, like a bird at the window, etc.? That's your "alignment."
In A1 we had a special guest speaker -- Mr. Tom Napierski, who talked with us about his experiences as an amputee. (Grandpa Leo in Stand Tall is an amputee.) I video-taped him, so we will watch the video tape in the other classes later. The theme of his presentation (and a major theme in the book Stand Tall) is that when we lose something, instead of focusing on what we have lost, we can focus on what we still have.
Students continued to read from Stand Tall, and we continued Book Talks.
The Vietnam War interviews were due today.
Chapters 4-14
Text: The novel Stand Tall by Joan Bauer -- This genre of this novel is realistic fiction.
Reading strategies: Activating Background Knowledge, Using Q.A.R.’s, Inferring, Summarizing, Making Connections
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 4:
Vocabulary Notes:
Mediocre - adjective (page 25) means neither good nor bad; average; ordinary; commonplace.
Epoxy – noun (page 26) is a heat-setting resin used as an adhesive (glue)
1. What is the coach’s name? (Right there.) _____________________ Why do you think Joan Bauer might have chosen that name for Tree’s basketball coach? (QAR:Author and You. Inference)
______________________________________________________________________________________
2. There is a plaque on the wall in the gym that says “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Do you agree or disagree with that? Explain why. (QAR: On your own) ________
____________________________________________________
3. What inference would most people probably make about Mona Arnold when told that she was born in Ethiopia in eastern Africa? ___________________________________________________
4. On page 28, Mona asks Tree’s grandpa, “So, what have you got, Leo?” She is asking him to look at what he has instead of at what he doesn’t have. He doesn’t have two complete legs, but he can name several important things he does have. What do you have? ___________________
5. Who is Sully, and what “disability” does Sully have? ___________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 5:
6. Where is Tree as this chapter begins? _______________________________________________
7. At the top of page 33, who is speaking? ______________________________________________
8. He says, “Never be a person who wants ___________________,” and
“_______________________________________ is the only reason to ever fight.”
9. On page 37, we’re told, “Occasionally something awful, like divorce, can have a good side.” What just happened that brought up a “good side” of the divorce in Tree’s family? _____________
________________________________________________________________________________
6. What does his brother Larry call Tree? ______________________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 6:
7. Who is Conan? (“Right there”) ____________________________________________________
8. Why does Tree think his grandpa is made of “tough stuff”? _____________________________________
9. What is the prayer that Tree’s grandpa says almost every day? ___________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 7: Summarize
10. Summarize chapter 7 in the box below. Remember to keep events in the same order they’re told in the story.
11. “Tree wondered if divorce was like war and always had a lasting effect on the people who went through it.” What do you think? ____________________________________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 8
12. After reading page 50, what do you think of Sophie Santack? _____________________________________
13. Tree thinks, “Sometimes it felt like every seat in the world was saved for somebody else.” Explain what he means. __________________________________________________
14. Who is Lassie (in this story)? ____________________________________________________
15. What two jobs is Sophie considering for when she grows up. She says, “one way or the other, I’m going to take care of problems.” _______________________________________________
16. Would you like to have a job taking care of problems? Why or why not? _________________
______________________________________________
17. What is Sophie’s motto? _________________________________________________________
18. What does Tree decide is his motto? _______________________________________________
19. What is your motto? ____________________________________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 9
20. Does what Grandpa says about grenades describe a helpful way to handle it when people say cruel things? How? ________________________________________________________
What do grenades have in common with cruel words? ________________________________________
21. According to Mona, what can disabled people do? ___________________________________
22. The coach makes the Pit Bulls Basketball team sign up for _____________________________
23. If Tree could have changed one thing about himself, what would it have been? _________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 10
Recognizing Parts of Speech
For each numbered word, write the part of speech each it acts as in the sentences. (Reminder: The parts of speech are noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection.)
1 2 3 4 5 6
Cars were pulling up to the entrance. Girls in dresses got out excitedly.
7 8 9 10
Boys in badly fitting suits slumped in misery toward the front door.
1. Cars _______________________ 6. excitedly _______________________
2. were pulling up ______________ 7. slumped _______________________
3. to __________________________ 8. toward ________________________
4. entrance ____________________ 9. the ____________________________
5. in __________________________ 10. front __________________________
Chapter 10, cont.
24. What is the setting at the beginning of Chapter 10? __________________________________
25. According to Sheila, “We begin dancing like we begin most new things. . .”
How do we “begin most new things”? _______________________________________________
26. Grandpa says the secret to fighting a war is to
“hold on to the things you ______________________________________,
“set your ___________________________________________________,
and “______________________________________________________________.
27. Grandpa also says “War does that – it blows things up and leaves
_______________________________________________________________”
“I’ll tell you something about empty places. They don’t get filled in right away.
You’ve got to look at them straight on, see what’s still standing.
Concentrate on __________________________________________________________.”
28. In which other chapter and question were you asked about what you have? _______________
Read these instructions, and then read Chapter 11
29. Summarize chapter 11 in the box below. Remember to include the most important things that happen, and keep them in the order they happened in the chapter.
__________________________________________________________________________
Name _____________________________________________ Period ____ Date ______________
Text: The novel Stand Tall by Joan Bauer -- This genre of this novel is realistic fiction.
Reading strategies: QAR’s, expressing opinions, inferring, summarizing, noticing the reader’s alignment
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 12
30. “Let’s go with what we’ve got Grandpa.” Who says this, and why? ______________________
________________________________________________________________________________
31. Who is the Trash King? (Q.A.R. “Think and Search. See also pages 57-58.) ______________
________________________________________________________________________________
32. Do you think it’s a good idea or not to have a Santa in a wheelchair visit children in the hospital as Leo does? Why? ________________________________________________________
33. Why did Tree feel taller at the end of chapter 12? ___________________________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 13
34. Larry is ____________________________________. (Who is he?)
Bradley is __________________________________. (Who is he?)
35. Why is Larry drinking? __________________________________________________________
36. Page 87 – Grandpa says, “That’s what it comes down to sometimes – forgetting how you______;
being ____________ in front of your ______________.”
37. From where do Grandpa, Tree, Curtis, and Larry steal a Christmas tree? ________________________________________________________________________________
Read these questions, and then read Chapter 14
38. Vocabulary: Use context clues to figure out a word.
If Tree’s mom has a small Serenity Fountain that sits on a table top and has “gentle, gurgling water [cascading] over small, peaceful rocks” and “That is what her life would become. Someday,” then Serenity (noun) must mean _________________________________________________________
39. Tree’s mom wants to have a perfect Christmas dinner with her sons. What goes wrong?
_________________________________________________________________________
40. Chapters 12-14: What is your alignment? In other words, from where or how are you seeing the story? ______________________________________________________________________
Remember when we read Words By Heart, and talked about how we saw a scene: as if watching a movie, as if you were the main character, standing nearby, like a bird at the window, etc.? That's your "alignment."
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
May 6, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLWZkq_hFXM video about service given by other junior high students who read Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
May 6, 2008
We continued with book talks today as students read individually in the novel, Stand Tall.
The students should be close to finishing Chapter 11 in the novel.
We will complete the Book Talks next time and the time after.
Chapters 1-3
Text: The novel Stand Tall by Joan Bauer
Reading strategies: Activating Background Knowledge, Using Q.A.R.’s, Inferring
Begin Book and Read Chapter 1:
Self-Starter: I. Right after the title page and the dedication page, there is a “poem” (set of verses) from the Old Testament. Read through the lines of the scripture verses; then select the poem as a whole or one line or to write about. Write quickly anything that this poem or line brings to mind for you.
_______________________________________________
II. Read pages 1-3. Answer this “Think and Search” Question: What is the author trying to tell us about the character Mrs. Pierce, or about the way the school works? How do you know? (Use details from the book.) ________________________________________________
III. Questions: Read pages 4-5, watching for and writing in the answers to these “Right There” questions:
1. What surgery has the main character’s grandfather undergone recently? _____________________________
2. How tall is the main character? ____________________________________________________
3. What is the main character’s nickname? _____________ his real name? ___________________
4. Answer this “On Your Own” question”: On page 5, you’ll find a “big idea”: “Tallness is packed with great expectations.” Is that true? Why or why not?
_______________________________________________________________
5. Read page 6 and 7, and make an inference. How far apart are the two different houses where the main character’s parents live? __________________________________________________
Stand Tall, Group Discussion for Chapter 1 -- Jot down some notes below for your group discussion. When you’ve read Chapter 1, get together with your group to discuss and answer the question. Your scribe will write the answer on a separate piece of paper and turn it into the wire basket.
In a small group of three or four, select a scribe to record what you decide as a group about this question. Everyone in the group should contribute to the conversation. Scribe, record both what your group decided and why you decided that.
Names of our group members: _____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
IV. From what you know so far, is Tree a lucky kid or an unlucky kid? Why? ( My notes:)
_____________________________________________________________
Stand Tall, Chapter 2:
V. Read pages 8 – 13 on your own, and answer these questions:
6. Who are Curtis and Larry? (“Right there” question) ___________________________________
7. Where are they? (“Right there” question) ___________________________________________
8. Who is Tree’s best friend? (“Think and Search” question) ______________________________
9. At the top of page 11, it says “Divorce casts so many shadows.” How had divorce cast shadows for Tree? (“Author and You” Question) ___________________________________________
10. Who is Bradley? (“Right there” question) __________________________________________
11. What is Tree’s method of dog training? (“Think and Search” Question) _____________________________
Stand Tall, Group Discussion for Chapter 2 -- Jot down some notes below for your group discussion. When you’ve read Chapter 2, get together with your group to discuss and answer the question.
VI. What do you know so far about Tree’s mother? Would you want her for your mom? (My notes:)
_______________________________________________________________________
Stand Tall, Chapter 3:
VII. Read pages 14 – 22 on your own, and answer these questions:
12. Who is Mrs. Clitter and how does Tree’s grandpa feel about her? (“Think and Search” QAR) See also page 4 and scan for what we’re told about Mrs. Clitter. _____________________________
13. What is the VA? (“Right There” QAR) ____________________________________________
14. How had Tree’s grandfather’s leg been wounded? ______________________________________________
15. What is a prosthetic leg? (“Right There” QAR) ______________________________________________
16. What do Tree and his grandpa do so Tree can stay past visiting hours at the hospital? Why does it work? _______________________________________________________________
17. The narrator of a book is the one who tells the story. In this book the narrator has a third person point of view – he or she is not one of the characters in the book, but tells the story about the characters.
Which type of third person narrator is used in this book? (Awareness of Author’s Craft)
Check (•) just one of these three for the narrator in Stand Tall:
____ Omniscient – The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
____ Limited Omniscient – The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
____ Camera or Objective View – the narrator records the action from his or her own point of view, being unaware of any of the character’s thoughts or feelings.
What evidence (a sentence or two) proves that the narrator is the type you checked above?
___________________________________________________
Stand Tall, Chapters 1 -- 3:
18. Look back to find out during what time of year (season and month) this book begins. Copy at least one sentence to support your answer.
_______________________________________________
If you have extra time, you may continue to read. Use the worksheet where you made the predictions (pages 1 and 2), and write down any corrections you can make to your predictions.
May 6, 2008
We continued with book talks today as students read individually in the novel, Stand Tall.
The students should be close to finishing Chapter 11 in the novel.
We will complete the Book Talks next time and the time after.
Chapters 1-3
Text: The novel Stand Tall by Joan Bauer
Reading strategies: Activating Background Knowledge, Using Q.A.R.’s, Inferring
Begin Book and Read Chapter 1:
Self-Starter: I. Right after the title page and the dedication page, there is a “poem” (set of verses) from the Old Testament. Read through the lines of the scripture verses; then select the poem as a whole or one line or to write about. Write quickly anything that this poem or line brings to mind for you.
_______________________________________________
II. Read pages 1-3. Answer this “Think and Search” Question: What is the author trying to tell us about the character Mrs. Pierce, or about the way the school works? How do you know? (Use details from the book.) ________________________________________________
III. Questions: Read pages 4-5, watching for and writing in the answers to these “Right There” questions:
1. What surgery has the main character’s grandfather undergone recently? _____________________________
2. How tall is the main character? ____________________________________________________
3. What is the main character’s nickname? _____________ his real name? ___________________
4. Answer this “On Your Own” question”: On page 5, you’ll find a “big idea”: “Tallness is packed with great expectations.” Is that true? Why or why not?
_______________________________________________________________
5. Read page 6 and 7, and make an inference. How far apart are the two different houses where the main character’s parents live? __________________________________________________
Stand Tall, Group Discussion for Chapter 1 -- Jot down some notes below for your group discussion. When you’ve read Chapter 1, get together with your group to discuss and answer the question. Your scribe will write the answer on a separate piece of paper and turn it into the wire basket.
In a small group of three or four, select a scribe to record what you decide as a group about this question. Everyone in the group should contribute to the conversation. Scribe, record both what your group decided and why you decided that.
Names of our group members: _____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
IV. From what you know so far, is Tree a lucky kid or an unlucky kid? Why? ( My notes:)
_____________________________________________________________
Stand Tall, Chapter 2:
V. Read pages 8 – 13 on your own, and answer these questions:
6. Who are Curtis and Larry? (“Right there” question) ___________________________________
7. Where are they? (“Right there” question) ___________________________________________
8. Who is Tree’s best friend? (“Think and Search” question) ______________________________
9. At the top of page 11, it says “Divorce casts so many shadows.” How had divorce cast shadows for Tree? (“Author and You” Question) ___________________________________________
10. Who is Bradley? (“Right there” question) __________________________________________
11. What is Tree’s method of dog training? (“Think and Search” Question) _____________________________
Stand Tall, Group Discussion for Chapter 2 -- Jot down some notes below for your group discussion. When you’ve read Chapter 2, get together with your group to discuss and answer the question.
VI. What do you know so far about Tree’s mother? Would you want her for your mom? (My notes:)
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Stand Tall, Chapter 3:
VII. Read pages 14 – 22 on your own, and answer these questions:
12. Who is Mrs. Clitter and how does Tree’s grandpa feel about her? (“Think and Search” QAR) See also page 4 and scan for what we’re told about Mrs. Clitter. _____________________________
13. What is the VA? (“Right There” QAR) ____________________________________________
14. How had Tree’s grandfather’s leg been wounded? ______________________________________________
15. What is a prosthetic leg? (“Right There” QAR) ______________________________________________
16. What do Tree and his grandpa do so Tree can stay past visiting hours at the hospital? Why does it work? _______________________________________________________________
17. The narrator of a book is the one who tells the story. In this book the narrator has a third person point of view – he or she is not one of the characters in the book, but tells the story about the characters.
Which type of third person narrator is used in this book? (Awareness of Author’s Craft)
Check (•) just one of these three for the narrator in Stand Tall:
____ Omniscient – The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
____ Limited Omniscient – The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
____ Camera or Objective View – the narrator records the action from his or her own point of view, being unaware of any of the character’s thoughts or feelings.
What evidence (a sentence or two) proves that the narrator is the type you checked above?
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Stand Tall, Chapters 1 -- 3:
18. Look back to find out during what time of year (season and month) this book begins. Copy at least one sentence to support your answer.
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If you have extra time, you may continue to read. Use the worksheet where you made the predictions (pages 1 and 2), and write down any corrections you can make to your predictions.
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