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====Post your questions, comments, and quotes for discussion on the read aloud book for 7th grade GOAL for the 2010/2011 school year: __The Cardturner__. ==== ====Possible topics: ====

====Make sure to back your opinions up with examples from the text. For example, "I love this book," is not specific or helpful for discussion. Instead, be specific about what you like. For example, "I love how the author describes the first night that Bobby has to stay alone. It really creeped me out when he was talking about the fluids coming up through the floorboards. I could tell he was really scared. What other books or authors describe as well as this one (Andrew Clements)?" Also, you can ask questions so your classmates can help you understand parts that confuse you. ====

====If you're stuck, use some of the following ideas to get you started... ==== ====1. Discuss the relationship between Alton and his parents. Compare it with other parent/child relationships that you know. ==== ====2. Analyze Alton's situation. Predict what caused his predicament and how he'll get out of it. ==== ====3. Discuss what you'd do if you were in Alton's place, and you woke up one day to find that you were invisible. ==== ====4. Analyze the relationship between Alton & Uncle Lester. How is it unique? ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. How do the characters in the book change throughout the course of the novel? How do they stay the same? ==== <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">6. Discuss the game of bridge. Ask questions so you understand it better.

====<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For each 3-week reporting period, I'd like you to make at least 1 post and at least 3 replies to the posts of others. This would be for a low B. Go above and beyond for an A. ====