THE PROCESS: Follow these steps and web links to accomplish your task.
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Your teacher will provide you with materials to make your Sarah, Plain and Tall journal in which you will do all your assignments. Decorate the cover and number your pages. |
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Here is a list of vocabulary words for you to put in your journal and when you find them in your reading, define what they mean in your journal. Add any other words you don't understand to make your vocabulary list complete, |
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Vocabulary Words: |
dusk hearthstone slab
feisty rascal prairie
pesky shingles slick
eerie flax paddock
dune pitchfork tumbleweed
gullies killdeer whickering
squall pungent milled
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How many of these words can you draw? |
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How many of these words name kinds of places? |
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How many of these words describe things? |
Go here to find definitions: http://www.dictionary.com/
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Explore character in the story by working with a partner to describe character traits for the characters in the story: |
Anna, Caleb's older sister
Caleb, Anna's younger brother
Papa (Jacob Witting), Father of Anna and Caleb
Sarah, Papa's new wife
William, Sarah's brother
Matthew, Neighbor
Maggie, Matthew's wife
Rose and Violet, daughters of Matthew and Maggie
After describing the characters in your journal, use describing words to describe your own character to your partner.
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After reading Chapter's 1, 2, and 3 answer these questions in your journal: |
1. Why do you think Papa has forgotten the old songs?
2. What do you think Anna asked Sarah in her letter?
3. How do you think Sarah feels when she first sees the farm?
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After reading Chapter's 4, 5, and 6 answer these questions in your journal: |
1. Why do you think the dogs love Sarah?
2. Why does Sarah draw pictures to send home?
3. How does the author describe the prairie?
Go here to learn more:
Prairie explorations http://www.prairies.org/
| After reading Chapters 7, 8, and 9 answer these questions in your journal: |
1. Why do you think Maggie knows that Sarah is lonely?
2. Why does Sarah want to learn how to drive the wagon and go to town?
3. Why are Sarah's shells at the bottom of the bag of food the family eats in the barn during the storm?
Go here to learn more:
Maine Coastline http://www.docksquare.org/WPP
Sea Shell Facts http://coa.acnatsci.org/conchnet/facts.html
| Compile a list of wildflowers mentioned in the story and tell how the wildflowers add to the environment. Put wildflower illustrations in your journal. |
Go here to learn more:
Pasture Rose http://emily.net/~schiller/wildflwr.html
| Explore seashells and include a page in your journal on seashell names with illustrations. |
Go here to learn more: http://www.seashells.org/
| To finish your journal, write a prediction to tell what you think happens after the story. Don't forget to illustrate your prediction page! |
| Move now to the EVALUATION page to evaluate your journal. |
