Assignment: finish reading Redwall, book 3, chapter 9 to the end.
Questions:
1. What do you think about the ending? Did it satisfy you or Did it leave you wanting more?
2. What was your favorite part about the ending?
3. What would you have changed if you were the author?
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Redwall - Book 3 Chapters 1-8
Assignment: Read Redwall - Book 3 Chapters 1-8
Questions:
1. Where your guesses correct about the barrel that Jess was saving? What do you think of what actually happened? Was it smart? or silly?
2. What happened to the tunnel that the rats were digging? What are you thoughts & feelings about that?
3. Why didn't Matthias get hypnotized like everyone else when he faced Asmodeus? What was different about Matthias then the others?
4. What's wrong with Cluny?
Questions:
1. Where your guesses correct about the barrel that Jess was saving? What do you think of what actually happened? Was it smart? or silly?
2. What happened to the tunnel that the rats were digging? What are you thoughts & feelings about that?
3. Why didn't Matthias get hypnotized like everyone else when he faced Asmodeus? What was different about Matthias then the others?
4. What's wrong with Cluny?
Friday, January 21, 2011
Redwall - Book 2 Chapters 20-23
Assignment: Read Redwall, Book 2, Chapters 20-23
Questions:
Would you have left without telling anyone the way Matthias did? Why or Why not?
What do you think they are going to fill the barrels with? Who do you think will have the best idea? Will it be Silent Sam?
Questions:
Would you have left without telling anyone the way Matthias did? Why or Why not?
What do you think they are going to fill the barrels with? Who do you think will have the best idea? Will it be Silent Sam?
Monday, January 17, 2011
Future Books
After we finish reading and discussing Redwall, we will be doing a few weeks discussing the Book of Proverbs.
Proverbs will take us to the end of the school year, but I would like to have a book discussion or two over summer break as well.
Please leave a comment on a book that you think would make a good choice for discussion.
Proverbs will take us to the end of the school year, but I would like to have a book discussion or two over summer break as well.
Please leave a comment on a book that you think would make a good choice for discussion.
Redwall - Book 2 Chapters 14 - 20
Assignment: Read Redwall Book 2, Chapters 14-20
Questions:
Compare/Contrast "slaving under a tyrant" and "voluntary cooperation that arose from determination and good fellowship"
What does "friends in need are friends indeed" mean? Do you agree?
Questions:
Compare/Contrast "slaving under a tyrant" and "voluntary cooperation that arose from determination and good fellowship"
What does "friends in need are friends indeed" mean? Do you agree?
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Redwall, Book 2 - Chapters 9-13
Assignment: Read Book 2 - Chapters 9 - 13
Questions:
Who is your favorite character?
Who do you most relate to or see yourself in their shoes?
Give a detailed example of a particular situation and why you relate to this character.
Questions:
Who is your favorite character?
Who do you most relate to or see yourself in their shoes?
Give a detailed example of a particular situation and why you relate to this character.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Redwall book 2 Chapters 5-8
Assignment: Read Redwall, Book 2, Chapters 5-8
Questions:
1. Write a minimum of a paragraph a chapter to summarize the events of these chapters.
2. Pick Three quotes from these chapters and tell me why you like those quotes.
Questions:
1. Write a minimum of a paragraph a chapter to summarize the events of these chapters.
2. Pick Three quotes from these chapters and tell me why you like those quotes.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Redwall - book 2 Chapters 1-4
Assignment: Read Redwall book 2, Chapters 1-4.
Questions:
1. Authors often include a humorous character or characters in a story at a dramatic or tragic point to provide comic relief, or a break from the tension of the plot. Basil Stag Hare is an example of comic relief. List three or more examples of what he does or says that makes him amusing.
2. When Cluny the Scourge orders Shadow to steal the image of Martin the Warrior from the tapestry, the residentsof Redwall are upset, disappointed, and broken-hearted. However, what do they discover as a direct result of the hole in the tapestry?
3. As we go into Book 2, chapters 1-4, what is the most notable thing that happens?
Questions:
1. Authors often include a humorous character or characters in a story at a dramatic or tragic point to provide comic relief, or a break from the tension of the plot. Basil Stag Hare is an example of comic relief. List three or more examples of what he does or says that makes him amusing.
2. When Cluny the Scourge orders Shadow to steal the image of Martin the Warrior from the tapestry, the residentsof Redwall are upset, disappointed, and broken-hearted. However, what do they discover as a direct result of the hole in the tapestry?
3. As we go into Book 2, chapters 1-4, what is the most notable thing that happens?
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