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Listen to advice and accept instruction,
and in the end you will be wise.
(Proverbs 19:20 NIV)
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Walk Two Moons – Journal Assignment #3 – Chapter 15-21 – due Monday, 5/17
Active Reading (on-going): The story of Sal’s journey west to Idaho alternates with the story she tells Gram and Gramps about Phoebe Winterbottom. Create a side-by-side recorded detailed account of Sal’s journey (left side) and those of Phoebe’s story (right side).
Vocabulary Preview: Identify page number and define.
Besiege Careen
Chaotic Miscellaneous
Optimistic
Questions:
- Why does hearing a bird outside the hospital remind Sal of home? Why does Gram suggest that
The bird is “a good sign”?
2. By the end of Chapter 16, what are the whispers saying to Sal? How have they changed? Why?
3. What name does Sal’s mother wish people would call her? How is this wish related to the reason she gives for having to leave the farm?
4. When Phoebe’s father reads the note from his wife, Sal says, “I had a sinking, sinking feeling.” What does the note say, and why does Sal react the way she does?
5. What does Sal say about the taste of trees? Be specific.
6. In what way does Mr. Birkway remind Sal of her mother?
7. How does Sal feel about “The Little Horse is NewLY”, the poem that Mr. Birkway reads?
8. Phoebe has some rather off-the-wall ideas about the lunatic, her mother’s disappearance, and Mrs. Cadaver. Do you agree with Phoebe’s conclusions? Do you think they are justified? Why or why not?
9. How does Phoebe’s family react to her mother’s leaving? How does Sal react? In what ways are their reactions different from each other? How are they the same?
10. How does the use of idioms, such as “easily as a fly can land on a watermelon” (pg. 25), “a huge jing-bang mass of water” (pg. 35), and “you’re trying to catch fish in the air” (pg. 111), help the reader grasp the feel of the setting?
Walk Two Moons – Journal Assignment #2 – Chapter 8 -14 – Due Monday, 5/10
Active Reading (on-going): The story of Sal’s journey west to Idaho alternates with the story she tells Gram and Gramps about Phoebe Winterbottom. Create a side-by-side recorded detailed account of Sal’s journey (left side) and those of Phoebe’s story (right side).
Vocabulary Preview: Identify page number and define.
Anonymous Cantankerous Console
Flail Malevolent Manna
Reassurance Skeptical Slather
Questions:
- In what ways is Mary Lou’s house different from Phoebe’s? In what ways is it different from Sal’s home in Bybanks? Whose family would you most like to live with?
2. Phoebe gets a message that says, “Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.” What does this mean?
3. Why do Sal and her mother prefer the term Indian to Native American?
4. What does “Everyone has his own agenda” mean? Who do you think is leaving the messages?
5. Why did Gramps hit his best friend in the jaw.
6. What is the single most precious object in Gram and Gramps Hiddle’s house? What does this suggest about their relationship?
7. What does Sal understand about Mrs. Winterbottom that Phoebe and Prudence do not? What makes Sal conscious of something that Mrs. Winterbottom’s own daughters are unaware of?
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Walk Two Moons – Journal Assignment #1 – Chapter 1-7
Due: Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Active Reading: The story of Sal’s journey west to Idaho alternates with the story she tells Gram and Gramps about Phoebe Winterbottom. Create a side-by-side recorded detailed account of Sal’s journey (left side) and those of Phoebe’s story (right side).
Vocabulary Preview: Identify page number and define.
Diabolic Divulge Flinch
Gullible Huzza Primly
Roost Shrapnel
Due Thursday, May 6, 2010
Questions:
- Sal says her story is hidden beneath Phoebe’s. What do you think she means by this?
- Why is Phoebe’s father so upset when the man at the state fair misguesses his age?
Why is Phoebe so defensive about her father’s age?
3. What does Sal mean when she says that it was an “act of defiance” for Grandmother Pickford to
name Sal’s mother “Chanahassen”?
4. What do you think has happened to Sal’s mother? What clues lead you to think this?
5. What makes Sal think Mrs. Winterbottom is unhappy?
6. Contrast the way Gram and Gramps speak with the way the Winterbottoms speak.
Do the same with Phoebe and Mary Lou. What do we learn about the characters from their speech?
7. Sal says she feels “betrayed” by her mother. What does she mean by this?
8. Why does Sal’s mother react the way she does to Sal’s father’s giving them flowers?
Project Assignment: Pizza Collage
Cut out a large tag board circle. The circle should be at least 8 inches in diameter. On one side of the tag board, have students make a collage from pictures cut out of magazines or off of the internet. The collage should represent the themes and events in Walk Two Moons. Be sure to leave room along the edge (crust) to write the title of the book, author, and their own names. Divide their circles into 6 equal parts. Each slice of the pizza will contain a summary of seven chapters; for example, one slice for chapters 1-7; one slice for chapters 8-14, one slice for chapter 15-21, and so on.