1. Add the following questions and answers to your Google Doc.
#1 Why is A Long Way from Chicago told in a series of short stories, instead of normal chapters? 2. Complete this assignment by Monday morning.
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1. Read pages 127 – 145
2. Add the following questions and answers to your Google Doc. # 1 Using details from the text, describe the float the Dowdel’s entered in the parade. # 2 Using details from the text, describe what happened when the parade waited for the train. # 3 What was the lie Grandma told during this visit? # 4 Vocabulary Define – Centennial Define – shank (page 130) Define – clodhopper (page 142) Define – spectacle (page 144) 3. Complete this assignment by Friday morning. Part 1
1. Read pages 121 – 127 2. Add the following questions and answers to your Google Doc. # 1. Explain why they were looking for items in the attic. # 2. Using details from the text, describe what Joey and Mary Alice found in the attic. 3. Complete the assignment by Wednesday Part 2 1. Complete the assignment listed on this word document. # Lit assignment word document. 1. Read pages 101 – 120
2. Add the following questions and answers to your Google Doc. # 1 Using details from the text, describe how Grandma feels about Mrs. Wilcox moving away? # 2 What happened in Chicago in 1934? # 3 Using details from the text, describe the lie Grandma told this year. # 4 How did Grandma use the lie to help someone? 3. Complete the assignment by Monday morning. 1. Read pages 79 – 99
2. Add the following questions and answers to your Google Doc. # 1 Using details from the text, describe what Mary Alice was hiding in this chapter and why she did it. # 2 Using details from the text, describe what Joey did at the end of this chapter and why he did it. 3. Complete this assignment by Friday morning. 1 Read pages 61 – 78
2. Add the following questions and answers to your Google Doc. # 1 Find an example of sarcasm on page 63. # 2 Explain the idiom ‘Don’t hide your light under a bushel’ found on page 64. # 3 Find an example of alliteration on page 68. # 4 Why did Grandma go on the plane ride? # 5 Who actually won the blue ribbon for the gooseberry pie? 3. Complete the assignment by Wednesday morning. 1. Read pages 37 – 59
2. Add the following questions and answers to your Google Doc. # 1 What does the simile at the top of page 45 mean? # 2 Why couldn’t Joey and Mary Alice tell their dad about the fishing trip? # 3 What did they do with all the catfish they caught? # 4 Why is this chapter titled One Woman Crime Wave? 3. Complete the assignment by Monday morning. 1. Read Pages 17 - 35
2. Add the following questions and answers to your Google Doc. # 1 What happened to Grandma Dowdel's and Mrs. Wilcox's properties at the beginning of the chapter ? # 2 Who are the Cowgills? # 3 How did Grandma restore law and order at the end of the chapter? 3. Complete the assignment by Friday morning. 1. Create a Google Doc titled ____'s A Long Way From Chicago.
2. Share it with Andrea. 3. Read pages 3 - 16 4. Add the following questions and answers to the document. # 1 Why does Mary Alice think they are being sent to visit their Grandmother? page 4 # 2 Why were the newspapers interested in Shotgun Cheatham? page 5 # 3 What was the difference in the two stories Grandma told about Shotgun? Why do you think she told different stories? page 7-10 # 4 What happened on Shotgun Cheatham’s last night above ground? 5. Complete the assignment by Wednesday morning. Next week we will begin our third and final lit circle of the year. A Long Way From Chicago is a series of tales about Joey and his sister Mary Alice's summer visits to their grandmother's.
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