CC17 FISH IN A TREE - Y5/6, W5: Tasks & Questions

W5: Pages 160-197 (Chapter 30-37)

TASKS - Choose from the following...

1. Draw a picture of a birth of a star (Like on Albert's wall). OR draw a picture of a friendly whale (Killer Whale). OR draw a ghost in a blizzard.

2. Assign each chess piece to different characters in the story. Who do you think should be the KING? QUEEN?....Explain why you choose each one.

3. Shay is a bully to Ally and her friends. Design an anti-bully slogan or message and display it in your school. You could make a video, poster or advert.

4. Think in pictures - Draw a comic strip showing the main events of the story so far.

5. RESEARCH - Research how to play Chess. Make a video explaining how to play. If you get time play Chess against someone in your class.

6. HANDS-ON - Use the word IM POSSIBLE with the IM separated like in the story and create it using your touch sense. I wonder what you can use to make it?

7. WRITING - Pretend to be Ally and write about something in Fish in a Tree using your 5 senses (Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, Touch). What can you write about?

8. VOCABULARY - Find the meanings of the following words: Diagonally, incorporate, restoration, logically, sacrificed and opponents.

9. FLIPGRID - Ally is lucky to have such great friends. What do you think makes a great friend? Who are your friends? What makes them special? Add your thoughts to this FLIPGRID: https://flipgrid.com/439cb69cPASSWORD - ChapterChat

10. MINECRAFT - Create a FISH in a tree! Can you do it?

SLOW CHAT QUESTION (Posted 9am Monday)

* Do you think it's important to be smart? How are you smart?

TWITTER CHAT QUESTIONS

1. Can you please share any tasks that you have completed this week. Try and leave a reply on someone else's creation.

2. In chapter 31, Ally learns about “learning differences”. Have you ever had a time in your life when you realized you thought about or learned about something in a different way than others? If so, what was it and how was your thinking different?

3. In chapter 32, what are some ways that Ally, Travis, and Mom support each other with Dad being away? How is Dad supporting them while he is deployed?

4. Ally says: “In the world of worlds, sometimes they just can't say everything.” What do you think she means by that?

5. Chapter 34 illustrates how Keisha, Albert, and Ally support each other through their problems. How does their reaction to Ally’s secret help her?

6. How could the substitute teacher have done a better job with Ally’s assignment?

7. Do you think Mr. Daniels really betrayed Ally? Why or why not?

8. Ally says she trusts Mr. Daniels at the end of chapter 37. What do you think her trust means to him? What did he do earlier in the chapter to show he cares about her and her trust?

9. What do you think about the last sentence: “I guess maybe ‘I’m having trouble’ is not the same as ‘I can’t’”?

10. Are you enjoying the story? What do you think is going to happen next?