Ramona+Chapter+3-4

=Ramona Quimby, Age 8= by Beverly Cleary

Chapter 3: The Hard-boiled Egg Fad and Chapter 4: The Quimby's Quarrel This week we will chunk chapters 3 and 4 together.

Choose 1 of the following activities to complete on your own paper.
 * Vocabulary:** fad, flurried, timid, slithery, rueful, dagger, commotion, seething, humiliation, drift, blotted, nuisance, emerge, plight, quarrel
 * 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) Fads - In Chapter 3 this week's fad is bringing a hard-boiled egg to eat at lunch and to crack open the egg by hitting it against your head. Last week the fad was bringing individual bags of corn chips for lunch. The fad changed often (part of the meaning of the word fad) and it sounds like these were not the only fads the 3rd graders had followed during the year so far. Create a story about what might be the next fad at Ramona's school. Include who thought of the fad, what it is, why many of the kids are following the fad. This can be written as a fun, fiction story or you can write it like a newspaper article about Cedarhurst Primary School.
 * 2) In Chapter 4, The Quimby's Quarrel, Ramona wishes something nice would happen to people in her family. Create 2 tree maps. On the first one Name it "Quimby Troubles" and make a branch for each member of the Quimby family and then describe what their trouble was that might have led to the family quarrel and under that state why you think the character had the trouble. On the second tree map name it "Ramona's Wishes" and make a branch for each member of the Quimby family and then describe what Ramona wished for each member of her family (including herself) and under the wish state why you think Ramona picked that wish for that family member.


 * 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) What do you think Beverly Cleary meant when she ended Chapter 3 with the statement, "She (Ramona) began to feel like a real person again."?
 * 2) On page 84 Mrs. Quimby tells Mr. Quimby, "I wonder why we named //the cat// Picky-picky." Then they looked at each other and just barely kept from laughing. What did Ramona's parents mean by this statement?
 * 3) Beezus and Ramona feel that they were tricked into eating tongue by their parents. Do you agree with them? Or do parents sometimes have to use tricks on their children? Take a stand and explain your thinking.