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===After your group discussion, get out your reading spiral. Independently, write a description of the most beautiful thing you have ever seen. What was there about it that made it beautiful? Do you think what seems beautiful to you is beautiful to others? How can you tell?===

Vocabulary - Chapters 1 & 2 injustice - 6 monotony - 6 knapsack - 5 & 17 jostle - 7 & 20 transistor - 9 obvious - 13 tycoon - 17 complicate - 17 temptation - 20 penetrate - 24

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 CHAPTERS 1 AND 2.

When people interact, they see things from a different perspective. In an automobile accident, the two drivers often have different stories of what took place. Take a look at how Claudia and Jamie's point of view is different from their parents. Divide a piece of paper in half (use large white construction paper). On one side of the paper, write or draw how Claudia and Jamie felt, and on the other side write or draw how their parents felt. Address these questions:

1. How did each side feel after Claudia and Jamie ran away? 2. How did each side feel after Claudia and Jamie had been gone for several days? 3. How did each side feel when Claudia and Jamie returned home?

Vocabulary for chapters 3 and 4 - Add the words to your dictionary.

inconspicuous - 30 & 34 accumulate - 30 condemn - 33 elegant - 36 & 44 ornate - 38 commotion - 53 acquisition - 58 curator - 59 intrigue - 65

Read chapters 3 and 4.

When finished, go to the website for The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Look at the map of the museum, and compile a list of exhibits you would like to see. What would your visiting schedule be? Keep track of this in your reading spiral.

Then respond in your reading spiral to this question: Do you think that two kids could live in the Met today? Why or why not?

Vocabulary for chapters 5 and 6 - Add the words to your dictionary.

pagan - 73 corpuscle - 78 pedestal - 78, 90, & 94 telepathy - 79 embroider - 80 conscience - 86 stealthily - 90 emblem - 91 browse - 95

Read chapters 5 and 6.

Respond to these questions in your reading spiral.

1. Do you think it was right for Claudia and Jamie to take the money from the fountain? Why or why not? 2. Describe how the children almost got caught Sunday morning. 3. What clue did they find? 4. How were Claudia and Jamie going to tell the museum about the clue they found? 5. Describe what Michelangel's masonry mark looked like.

Read chapters 7 and 8.

Finish reading your novel.