Where's Brownie? Act 1

Where's Brownie?

Let's Dive Into the Pool of Knowledge

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Essential Question

What can you discover when you give things a second look?

What do you see first? The second time?

What do you see first? The second time?

What do you see first? The second time?

What do you see first? The second time?

Multiple Choice

What strategy requires "picturing" characters, actions, and settings while reading?

• Genre

• POV

• Visualize

• Dialect

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Cast:

SAM and ALEX JENSEN: Twin sisters with different personalities. SAM is athletic and outgoing. ALEX is quiet and studious.

NARRATOR: One of the sisters, ten years later.

EVAN: A classmate

NICK: The building superintendent

NICKY: Nick's young son.

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Setting: A two-person bedroom in an apartment. SAM sits at a messy desk, creating a poster. EVAN works at a clean desk. Nearby are an empty terrarium and a paper bag that is wet and torn at the bottom.

Open Ended

Who does the clean desk belong to?

Multiple Select

What does the cast list and setting description tell us about the twins?

• They are close with each other.

• Alex is neater than Sam.

• Sam is smarter than Alex

• Alex and Sam are good friends with Evan.

Multiple Choice

What do you call a group of sea turtles?

• Bunch

• Herd

• Bale

• Bard

Multiple Choice

What skill requires knowing how the story is being told.

• Visualize

• Genre

• Point of View

• Exaggeration

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Narrator: Whoever claimed that "two heads are better than one" never met my twin sister. Half the time, she makes problems worse rather than better. Like when we lost Brownie, our pet chameleon. . .

Multiple Choice

What point of view is the narrator telling the story from?

• 1st person

• 3rd person

So, from what we know...

Who do you think the narrator of the story is?

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(ALEX enters. SAM and EVAN quickly cover up their work.)

ALEX: How was the science fair? Did everyone like Brownie?

SAM: They did. Mr. Rollins was astounded that my exhibit was so good. (SAM tries to hide the empty terrarium from ALEX.)

Poll

After reading, which twin do you infer lost Brownie, the chameleon?

• Alex

• Sam

Multiple Choice

Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient times.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Pigs cannot sweat.

• True

• False