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Students, follow along on this website as the activities and journals are assigned. Pay close attention to due dates and see me if you begin to fall behind. All activities should be written into your point sheet.

You will be required to write roughly one page of notes for each chapter using the. I've modeled the first four chapters for you, so you'll just need to copy them onto your own paper. They're in the links below. Quiz questions will come from your notes! You'll be doing your own note-taking for the rest of the book. Use the same format. Remember to answer the essential question that I'll provide for you for each chapter in your summary box. - - - No notes for chapters 5 and 6. Enjoy the break!
 * Notes and Questions: **

__**Activities/Journals for the novel: **__

Complete the and turn into your folder. (10 points)
 * Activity 1 ** **- Pre-Reading:**

Use a separate sheet of paper to answer the as we read the first chapter of the novel. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">(10 points)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 160%;">Activity 2 <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;"> - Chapter 1 Discussion Questions: **

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Complete the for 1 word in each of the first 4 chapters. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Word bank (//use one of these for each chapter// or find your own): <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Chapter 1: **Minutemen, Lobsterback, constitute, garrison** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Chapter 2: **meddle, resign, scornful, clutch** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Chapter 3: **subversion** (all students should do this word for ch.3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Chapter 4: **churn, clambering, trainband** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">(20 points - 5 points per chapter)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 20.7999992370605px;">Activity 3 <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;"> - Vocabulary - chapters 1-4: **

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">In this activity, students will pick a quote from the first four chapters, give a visual representation for that quote and a description of it. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Possible quotes to consider: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">- "My brother Sam was standing there, wearing a uniform. Oh my, he looked proud." <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">- "Sam was pretty tired, and being a good sleeper,I figured I might be able to move his arm without waking him up." <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">- "Father kept the bayonet hanging over the mantlepiece." <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">- "I'd never seen him cry before in my whole life, and I knew bad times were coming." <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">(10 points)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 160%;">Activity 4 <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;"> - QVD (__Q__uote, __V__isual Representation, __D__escription) **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 20.8px;">Activity 5 - [[file:MBSID_Close_Reading_Ch_5.pdf|Close Reading Activity for chapter 5]] **

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2px;">Students focus will be on synonyms for for chapters 4-7.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 20.8px;">Activity 6 - [[file:MBSID_Vocab_Synonyms_Ch_4-7.pdf|Vocabulary for chapters 4-7]] **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 20.8px;">Activity 7 - [[file:MTT_Prison_Ship_MBSID.pdf|Marking The Text]] **

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2px;">, students will create ba 4-panel storyboard of a chapter that we have read so far in the book. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2px;">A few random examples of what a finished 4-square storyboard might look like:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 20.8px;">Activity 8 - StoryBoard **

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Students will complete writing prompt electronically and turn into eBackpack.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 20.7999992370605px;">Activity 9 - Writing Prompt #1 (see bottom of page for prompts) **

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Students will __analyze__ passages from the text in designed to help kids __respond__, __question__, __make personal connections__, __evaluate__, __reflect__, or __interpret__.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 20.7999992370605px;">Activity 10 - [[file:MBSID_Literary_Response_Analysis_Ch_4-7.pdf|Literary Response and Analysis]] **

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2px;">In a similar activity to #6, students will __analyze__ passages from the text in designed to help kids __respond__, __question__, __make personal connections__, __evaluate__, __reflect__, or __interpret__.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 20.8px;">Activity 11 - [[file:Activity_8_Literary_Response_&_Analysis.pdf|Literary Response and Analysis]] (Take 2) **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">__Writing Prompts__ (with a [|The Write Tools] guiding sheet to fill out to go with it) **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Students will write one paragraph for each prompt: **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">1. (Language Arts): Pick a character from the first six chapters and write //from his/her perspective// about what's happened so far in the book. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">2. (Social Studies): Analyze what made the colonists so angry with the British that they wanted to start a revolution. What was meant by "No taxation without Representation"? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">3. ****<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">(Social Studies): ****<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">When is it necessary for citizens to rebel against their government? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">4. ****<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">(Language Arts): ****<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">Evaluate why Sam has a different opinion about the revolution than his father does. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">5.(Social Studies): What were some of the effects of the American Revolution? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">6.(Language Arts): What was life like in Connecticut during the revolution? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">7.(Language Arts): Write a synopsis of a different ending for the book. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 18.2000007629395px;">8. (Social Studies): Summarize how the continental army was able to win the war for independence from Great Britain. (For use with the video "The Story Of Us") **