Table A: Title your card, “Setting



Table A: Title your card, “Setting.” Then, answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use direct quotes form the story when possible.

1. In what city and state does Greg Ridley live?

2. Based on the first sentence, what mood described Greg, and what metaphor was used as a comparison of his mood?

3. What did the weather do at the beginning of the story when Greg was in a bad mood, and what did it do at the end of the story when Greg was smiling?

Table B: Title your card, “Conflicts.” Then, answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. List three external conflicts that occur during the story.

2. What internal conflict did Lemon Brown fail to win in his life?

3. Identify two “man vs. nature” conflicts in the story.

4. What internal conflict is Greg battling?

Table C: Title your card, “Greg’s Dad.” Then, answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use direct quotes from the story when possible.

1. What did Greg’s dad treasure?

2. How does the reader know that Greg’s dad treasures that?

3. Why did he treasure that?

Table D: Title your card, “Lemon Brown’s Background.” Then, answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use direct quotes from the story when possible.

1. What was Lemon Brown famous for doing 50 years ago?

2. Why did he give it up?

3. Why is he homeless?

4. Put the following events in chronological order:

Lemon Brown became homeless, Lemon Brown’s son died, Lemon Brown’s wife died, Lemon Brown was famous, Lemon Brown continued singing after the death, Lemon Brown stopped singing, Lemon Brown received a treasure, Lemon Brown’s son lived with his aunt.

Table E: Title your card, “Climax.” Then, answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use direct quotes from the story when possible.

1. What did Lemon Brown give his son before his son left for war?

2. Why did Lemon Brown choose to give his son that?

3. How did Lemon Brown know that his son loved and respected him?

4. Greg asked Lemon Brown’s whether his treasure was really worth fighting a pipe for. According to Lemon Brown’s answer, what does he think every father’s (including Greg’s) treasure is?

Table F: Title your card, “Falling Action and Resolution.” Then, answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use direct quotes from the story when possible.

1. What mistake did Lemon Brown make when telling Greg where he’s going?

2. What message is the author trying to convey to the readers by this mistake?

3. Why does Greg decide NOT to tell his dad about Lemon Brown?

4. What does Greg now understand about his dad that he didn’t understand before talking with Lemon Brown?

5. Use evidence from the story to prove that Greg is a dynamic character.

Table G: Title your card, “Theme.” Then, answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use direct quotes from the story when possible.

1. What lesson did Greg learn from Lemon Brown about Greg’s father?

2. Therefore, what is the theme of the story?

3. What are some other lessons the reader can learn from this story?

Table A: Title your card, “My Treasures.” Draw a bubble graphic organizer in which the center bubble says, “What I Treasure.” Then, draw arrows to multiple other bubbles that tell what you treasure.

Table G: Title your card, “My Parents’ Treasures.” Make a list of all the “treasures” your parents are trying to pass on to each of you.

Table C: Title your card, “Run, Hide, Fight.” Use evidence from the story to prove that the thugs were drunk and willing to use their weapon (a lethal combination).

When training for dangerous situations at school, we are learning to run, hide, and fight. Explain how Lemon Brown and Greg used these principles when dealing with the thugs.

Table D: Title your card, “Hyperbole.” Lemon Brown spoke in colorful, rhythmic, blues-sounding language. For example, he bragged that “I sung the blues so sweet that if I sang at a funeral, the dead would commence to rocking with the beat.” Each of you, write your own hyperboles using this structure:

I [did what] so [how] that [exaggerated consequence]. For example, “I dance so gracefully that butterflies learn from me.”

Table E: Title your card, “Persuasive Appeals.” Read about the three Persuasive Appeals on p. 933 (appeal to reason/logic, ethical appeal, and emotional appeal). Then, copy the following quotes and decide which of the three appeals it is an example of.

1. “You don’t give up the blues; they give you up. After a while you do good for yourself, and it ain’t nothing but foolishness singing about how hard you got it.”

2. “Him carrying [the newspaper clippings and the harmonica] around with him like that told me it meant something to him. That was my treasure, and when I give it to him he treated it just like that, a treasure.”

Table F: Title your card, “Figurative Language.” Find three examples of different types of figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, allusion, idiom, and onomatopoeia) in the story. List them, and then identify which type they are.

Table B: Title your card, “Blues.” Go to the student computer and look up the following information on the Internet. Answer in complete sentences.

1. What is “the blues” genre of music?

2. When was it popular?

3. Who are the most famous blues singers?

4. From what singing did blues singing originate?

5. List some things students your age feel “blue” about.

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