Matilda

Discussion of Pages 193-214

Mrs. Silvestro — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:44:13 +0000

The strategy we have been practicing is synthesis, in whch we use all of the reading strategies we have previously learned to figure out the theme, “big idea,” or gist of a reading. Use your determining importance, questoning, making inferences, visualizing, and making conections strategies to synthesize your reading, then answer this question:

What do you think the theme of your book is, and what strategies did you use in deciding this?

Pages 170-192

Mrs. Silvestro — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:42:42 +0000

The skill we have been practicing is making is making inferences. Choose one character from your reading and make an inference about him or her. (For example, if your character answers questions in just a few words, and looks down at the ground when people talk to him, you might infer that he is shy.) What conclusions can you draw about your character from his thoughts or actions in the reading?

Discussion of pages 141-169

Mrs. Silvestro — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:20:39 +0000

In class we talked about making predictions based on clues or details from a text. Make a prediction about what might happen next in your book, and list AT LEAST two clues or details that helped you make this prediction.

Discussion of Pages 117-140

Mrs. Silvestro — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:37:46 +0000

What inferences can you make about what’s happening in these pages? List details to support the inferences you make.

Discussion of Pages 90-116

Mrs. Silvestro — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:35:59 +0000

Continue to practice the visualizing skill. Use your five senses to describe a scene from these pages that you were able to visualize very well.

Discussion of Pages 66-89

Mrs. Silvestro — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:09:21 +0000

In class we have been working on the visualizing skill. Use your five senses to descibe a scene in these pages that you were able to visualize very well.

Pages 30-65 Discussion

Mr. Dunn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:11:42 +0000

Please share what you think the problem or conflict is in your novel. Is it surprising to you?

Also include a prediction for what you think will happen next.

Pages 7-29 Discussion

Mrs. Pross — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:56:58 +0000

Please comment on your first impression of the book. Think about the following questions:

1. How do you feel about the characters that were introduced so far?

2. What do you look forward to the most in reading this novel?

3. Make a prediction. What do you think might happen next?

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Mr. Dunn — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:56:56 +0000

Matilda Theme Connections

elia_jordanp — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:27:35 +0000

In both “The BFG” and “Matilda,” there was at least one mean character that enjoyed hurting children (Miss Trunchbull and the nasty giants). Plus, a little girl is one of the main characters in both books (Matilda and Sophie).