Ramona+Chapt.+5,6,7

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 * Vocabulary:** tongs, festive, fortunate, scant, assure, quaver, blur, belittle, weary, united, gritty, reluctant, inquired, indignant, transmission Choose 1 of the following activities to complete on your own paper.=====
 * 1) Group and Regroup - think about these 15 words. Create a Tree Map showing 5 ways you could categorize these words. Some words may fall into more than 1 category. (i.e. Words that Describe Ramona, Nouns, Words with More Than 3 Syllables, etc.). Every category has to have at least 2 words in it and every word must be placed in at least 1 category.
 * 2) Vocabulary Analysis - Choose 3 words to work with. For each word create a Tree Map with the following headings: Definition, Part of Speech, Synonym or Antonym, How Used in Story, My Own Sentence


 * Activities**: Choose 1 of the following activities to complete on your own paper.
 * 1) Character changes over time - choose one character from Chapter 5 (Ramona, Beezus, Mr. Quimby or Mrs. Quimby) and create a flowing bubble map to show what the character was like at the beginning of the chapter, in the middle of the chapter and at the end of the chapter.
 * 2) Rich and Wonderful Words - In Chapter 6 Mrs. Cleary has chosen some strong, rich and wonderful words to help her paint the picture of Ramona's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at school. Create a tree map with the following categories: Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs. On each branch find 10 words that you feel were excellent examples of each category that helped Mrs. Cleary paint the detailed pictures in your mind from Chapter 6. Then write 5 sentences of your own that uses at least 15 of the words on your tree map. (You'll need to use 2-4 of your chosen words in each sentence and be sure to underline which words in each sentence were from your tree map.)
 * 3) Book Reports! Kids have had to give book reports for a long, long time. I bet you have even had to give a book report yourself. Mrs. Whaley says that the book reports her 3rd graders will give have to be like they are selling the book. This is called advertising. To advertise something you have to make it sound interesting enough that someone would want to buy it. If you are advertising a movie or TV show, you have to tell enough of the story so that someone wants to watch it - but you can't tell too much! Think of a way to advertise this book, //Ramona Quimby, Age 8//, to your classmates. What might you say to them that would make them want to read this book? How would you choose to advertise it? Tell a story? Give a speech? Create a poster? Maybe make a glog? Or even write a song?


 * Blogging**: Choose 1 of the following topics to write about in your blog. You need to be able to write a response of 50-100 words or more . Remember that in your blog you make a Claim, then tell what Evidence from the text that you have to support your claim and your Reasons to support both the claim and the evidence. (CER)
 * 1) Ramona felt that she was a supernuisance because she threw up at school in front of her class and her mom had to leave work to pick her up and take care of her. Write a diary entry about the day at school from one of the following points of view: Mrs. Quimby, Mrs. Whaley, Danny, Mrs. Larson, or Marsha.
 * 2) Mrs. Quimby told Ramona that she was acting like a wounded tiger. This is a metaphor - when you compare two unrelated things. Explain what Mrs. Quimby meant - how can a little girl be like a wounded tiger?
 * 3) Ramona was worried about her mother coming to pick her up from school and staying home to take care of her. Many adults think that 3rd graders have very little to worry about. Explain why Ramona was so worried OR tell about a time that you have been really worried about something.