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Journal Choices 1. Write your responses to the book so far. You might also list questions
and comments that come to mind as you read this part of the book.
2. Create a timeline to show what has happened so far in the story. Add
to the timeline as you continue reading.
3. The word night is a key word in this section of the book. What does
the word mean early in the first chapter? How does the meaning
change as the story progresses?
4. The narrator from time to time breaks away from the story to tell the
reader about something that happened later or to ask a question.
Why do you think he has chosen to do so? How is he preparing you
for the rest of the story?
5. The narrator mentions a number of events in this section that take
place for the first or the last time. List as many as you can find. What
do these events have in common? Why do you think the author has
chosen to draw your attention to them?
6. Describe in words what you think Eliezer looks like
in the spring of 1944. |
posted Jul 21, 2016, 6:47 AM by Linsey Rose
Feathers
Book Project Options
1. Write a letter to the main character and the character's
reply.
3. Summarize the book into a comic or story aimed for younger
students.
4. Dramatize a scene from the story with other students or using
puppets.
5. Pretend you are a news reporter and interview the main character..
6. Prepare a television commercial about the novel. Act out the commercial for your classmates.
7. Write a ballad or song about the characters and events in your
story. Set the words to the music of a popular song.
8. Give a dramatic reading of a scene in the novel to your
classmates, and include your opinion of the
novel. Support it with details from the
novel. |
posted Jul 20, 2016, 6:49 AM by Linsey Rose
Respond to each in complete sentences and paragraphs. Cite text evidence in your answers. | 1.Make a list of the lessons that Frannie learned in this story. Which is the most important lesson that she learned? Why?
| 2.How is religion incorporated into the story?
| 3.How does Frannie change during this story?
| 4.In chapter 17, Frannie and Mama talk about memories and memory. When she is an adult, what moments from this story do you think Frannie will remember most? Why?
| Analyze the Poem by Emily Dickenson. | Heaven is what I cannot reach! The apple on the tree, Provided it do hopeless hang, That “heaven” is, to me.
The color on the cruising cloud, The interdicted ground Behind the hill, the house behind— There Paradise is found!
| What is this poem about?
| What does Dickinson want the reader to take away?
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posted Jul 19, 2016, 5:47 AM by Linsey Rose
Chapter 21 and Chapter 22 Write a summary of the reading. |
| Answer each comprehension question. | 1.What does Frannie say she would ask Jesus?
| Answer each analysis question. | 1.”Each moment is a thing with feathers.” What does this mean?
| 2.Summarize the ending of the story. Is it a satisfying end for you, the reader? Why or why not?
| Analyze the poem by Emily Dickenson | ‘T is little I could care for pearls Who own the ample sea; Or brooches, when the Emperor With rubies pelteth me.
Or gold, who am the Prince of Mines, Or diamonds, when I see A diadem to fit a dome Continual crowning me.
| What is the poem about?
| What is important to Emily Dickenson in this poem?
| What is the tone or mood of this poem?
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Chapter 19 and Chapter 20 Write a summary of the reading |
| Answer the vocabulary and language question. | 1.Look up the word blasphemy. What is Samantha accusing Frannie of?
| Answer each comprehension question | 1.Why is Jesus Boy white? | 2.Ms. Johnson gives an assignment to write about one event in great detail. What does Frannie write about?
| Answer the analysis question. | 1.Why does Frannie say that she went over to Trevor after the fight? Why do you think she doesn’t understand her motivations until her conversation with Samantha?
| Analyze the poem by Emily Dickenson | When I hoped I feared, Since I hoped I dared, Everywhere alone As a church remain; Spectre cannot harm, Serpent cannot charm; He deposes doom, Who hath suffered him.
| What is this poem about?
| What message about hope is Dickenson communicating in this poem?
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Chapter 17 and Chapter 18 Write a summary of the reading. |
| Answer each vocabulary and language question. | 1.“Mr. Hungry was gonna be packing his bags to-night!” What literary tools are used here? (Hint: more than one!)
| 2.”We were all new to the world, all squishy-faced and spider-fingered.” (p.106) What literary tool is used here?
| Answer each comprehension question. | 1.Mama yells at Frannie for coming into the house with wet boots. Why does Frannie hug her after this experience? | 2.Frannie listens to the radio and hears about the draft (p. 103). Mama kisses both of Sean’s ears that day. Why does she do this?
| Answer the analysis question | 1.How has Frannie’s perception of Jesus Boy changed?
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Answer each short answer question on a separate sheet of paper. | 1.Choose one theme: hope, difference, belonging, or friendship. Trace its development through the novel so far.
| 2.What does it take for the kids to warm up to Jesus Boy? What do you think of this plot development?
| Choose one writing prompt. Respond in a three to five paragraph essay. | 3.Frannie and Sean play a game where they have to describe a word in a way that you can hear it. (p. 53) Choose a word randomly from the Dictionary. Then, write paragraphs that makes the reader hear the word.
| 4.Reflect on the lessons that your family has tried to teach you. Write down a list of lessons and who told them to you. Which are the most important to you? Which lessons do you try to live by? | Answer the questions about the poem by Emily Dickenson. | God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me, I dare not eat it, though I starve— My poignant luxury To own it, touch it, prove the feat That made the pellet mine— Too happy in my sparrow chance For ampler coveting.
It might be famine all around, I could not miss an ear, Such plenty smiles upon my board, My garner shows so fair. I wonder how the rich may feel— An Indianman—an Earl? I deem that I with but a crumb Am sovereign of them all.
| 5. How does Dickenson use language to impact the reader in this poem?
| 6. What is a “sparrow chance”?
| 7. What is this poem about? What is the message for the reader? |
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posted Jul 12, 2016, 5:53 AM by Linsey Rose
Chapter 15 and Chapter 16 Write a summary of the reading. |
| Answer each comprehension question. | 1.How has Rayray’s opinion of Jesus Boy changed? | 2.What does Frannie think of Jesus Boy’s fight?
| Analyze the Poem by Emily Dickenson | Our share of night to bear, Our share of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning.
Here a star, and there a star, Some lose their way. Here a mist, and there a mist, Afterwards – day!
| What is this poem about?
| What does Emily Dickenson want the reader to take away or learn from this poem?
| What point of view is this poem written in?
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posted Jul 7, 2016, 5:41 AM by Linsey Rose
Write a summary of the reading. |
| Answer 3 comprehension questions. | 1.Why does Sean want to date a hearing girl? Why is this difficult for him? | 2.How do Jesus Boy and Trevor get into a fight?
| 3.Why does Frannie think that Jesus Boy is so calm? | 4. After the fight, Trevor “didn’t look like Trevor anymore.” Why does Frannie describe Trevor this way?
| Use Internet and text sources to write a three paragraph essay that addresses the question. Cite your references. | Who and what are the Black Panthers?
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