Out+of+the+Dust

=__Out of the Dust__=

===Meet with your group and discuss the following questions. Keep track of your discussion using a Google Doc on the iPad.===

===After your group discussion, get out your reading spiral. Independently, complete this rewriting exercise. Start with the poem in __Out of the Dust__ called "Me and Mad Dog." It is on page ten. Deconstruct the poem and separate it into individual sentence (and sentence fragments) and put the information into numbered sentences.===

===Why do you think Karen Hesse chose to write the novel in poetic form? What are the advantages of the poetic form? Which version did you like best, the poetic version or the paragraph version you created?===

Vocabulary:

crouched bawling revenge scowl testy distracted whittled squinted moldy exposing drought

Create a literature vocabulary dictionary. Use the assigned words to create the dictionary in Keynote. Each entry will have the word, the sentence using the word in your book, its definition, a picture to represent it, a synonym, an antonym, and a sentence you create on your own.

READ Sections 1 and 2 (Beginning: August 1920 through Breaking Drought)

Answer these questions in your reading spiral (using complete sentences):

1. What did Billie Jo's mother donate to people in need? 2. What did Billie Jo do when it was discovered that Mr. Hardly had given her four extra cents in change? 3. Where did the wind storm take place in //Fifty Miles South of Home//? 4. Why does Billie Jo's family set the table with plates upside down, glasses bottom up, and napkins folded over the silverware? 5. What happened in //Breaking Drought// after seventy days?

Read sections 3 (//Dazzled// through //Fields of Flashing Light//)

Read section 4 (//Tested by Dust// through //On the Road with Arley)//

Vocabulary for Section 5:

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the word in bold means. Do this in your reading spiral.

1. Dionne **Quintuplets** 2. Daddy/ put a pail of **kerosene**/ next to the stove. . . 3. I pushed her to the ground/**desperate** to save her. . . 4. He bathed my burns in **antiseptic.** 5. Sand **chafed** inside my clothes/against my skin. 6. It **whirred** like a thousand engines.

You do NOT need to add these to your Keynote.

Read section 5 - //Hope in a Drizzle// through //Devoured//.

Add the words above to your Keynote. Check to see if your definitions were correct!

Read section 6 and 7 - //Blame// through //Art Exhibit//

Finish reading your novel.