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**// Characterization //**

** Think –Tac- Toe **


 * Directions:** Select and complete two 25 point activities and one 50 point activity. Remember to make your work thoughtful, original, accurate, and detailed.

Write a bio poem for one of the characters from the novel. See the directions sheet for details. || **Character Crossword** Create a Character Crossword Puzzle using www.puzzlemaker.com Use quotes, actions, or descriptions from each character as clues. || **Twitter** Write Twitter “tweets” for one of the characters from the novel. One “tweet” per chapter read so far. See directions sheet for details. ||  Write a news headline for each chapter we have read so far. Headlines are one line (and may have a sub-heading); they are not complete sentences- they just give the readers the subject and verb to draw the reader in. Headlines often answer the questions: Who? And What? ||      Write a Facebook profile for one of the characters (a fake one). See the directions sheet for details. || **Journal Entry** Choose a character and write a journal entry as if you are that character. What are you thinking and feeling right now? What are your deepest (and perhaps darkest) thoughts? What secrets do you have that you want to spill? ||  Have one character send another character a post card. What would he/she write on the card? What would the “picture” side have on it? || **Capture a Quote** Capture a quote from our current novel. Use it as a springboard for writing a reflection- What is this quote’s greater meaning in the story? Why did you choose this quote? || **IPOD Touch** Design your own IPOD touch. Your IPOD Touch should include ten “Apps.” You will need to create a colorful IPOD. You will also need to write two sentences for each application explaining the application and how it would relate to the story __Walk Two Moons__ **.** ||
 * ** Poem **
 * ** 25 ** ||  **25**  ||  **25**  ||
 * **Headlines**
 * **25** ||  **25**  ||  **25**  ||
 * **Character Postcard**
 * **50** ||  **50**  ||  **50**  ||

Download the Google Earth Walk Two Moons Literature Journey


 * Welcome to the Literature Google Open Google Maps or Google Earth. **

As you read the story, there are many locations that you can visit using Google Maps.

Type in the name of the places and visit them. Use the tools on Google to get a close up view. Use the layers to see what is available around the area. There are questions with each location.



Bybanks, Kentucky Sal describes her favorite place in the world, Bybanks, Kentucky, as a "caboodle of houses on a green spot along the Ohio River". Bybanks is fictitious, but there are plenty of green spots along the beautiful Ohio. It isn't too difficult to imagine the fields and hills Sal tells us about. Thinking About the Story... What do you think a "caboodle" is? "Bybanks" is a fictitious name. Can you tell why it is sort of an appropriate name for this town? If you wanted to create an appropriate but fictitious name for your town for a story you were writing what are some of the names you might come up with?

Euclid, Ohio This is where Sal and her Dad move at the beginning of the book. Sal comments that "the houses are jammed up all together like bird houses." Phoebe's address is 49 Gray Street, but this is a fictious address. Her street may look very much like this one. Euclid High School is at the end of this street on the right side of the computer screen. This would likely have been the high school Sal and her friends attended. Thinking About the Story... We don't normally see the world as though we were in a plane flying over it. From this view you can see what the author meant by saying "the houses are jammed up all together like bird houses." When writers try to describe one thing by comparing it to another it is called a metaphor. And when writers use the word "like" in their metaphors this is a special kind of metaphor called a "similie." Can you think of a word that sounds a lot like "similie" that also means "like"? Compare where you live to where Sal and her dad live. What are some of the ways they are different and what are some of the ways they are alike? TIP: For a closer look go into street view by checking the box in Google Earth's LAYERS area that is next to "Street View." You will see small cameras appear on the screen. Click on one of them to "enter" Street View."
 * //Chapter 1, Page 1//**

Ohio Turnpike Rest Area As Sal and her grandparents leave for Idaho, they make their first rest stop either at this rest area or the one farther West. Sal calls the Ohio Turnpike "the flattest, straightest piece of road in God's whole creation" I think you can probably see what she meant from this view. At the rest area Gramps decides to "help" a woman fix her car. Once he removes all the "snakes" from the engine she decides to call a mechanic. Thinking About the Story... On page 27 Gramps uses the word "snakes" to describe some parts of her engine. He is using a "metaphor," because he is comparing "something" to snakes. What is being compared to snakes in this scene? But, this is NOT the kind of metaphor we call a "similie." Why not? Can you rewrite the sentence in a way that would make it a similie? Do you think Gramps did the right thing in trying to help the woman with her car troubles? Why? Have you ever stopped what you were doing to help a perfect stranger? Or, has a perfect stranger ever stopped what she or he was doing to help you?
 * //Chapter 2, Page 10 and Chapter 5, Page 25//**

Elkhart, Indiana

Sal, Gram and Gramps ate lunch here in Elkhart on their first day of travel. Thinking About the Story... Think about the longest car ride you've ever taken. Was it exciting or boring? What did you do to pass the time? If you decided to tell stories to pass the time, what story might you want to tell?
 * //Chapter 7, Page 36//**

South Bend, Indiana

As Gramps says, "Don't you remember South Bend? You took a pee in South Bend."
 * //Chapter 7, Page 36//**

ll-Ah-No-Way Beach


 * //Chapter 7, Page 36//**

"Just then the road curved (it actually curved--this was a shock), and off to the right was a huge jing-bang mass of water. It was as blue as the bluebells that grow behind the barn in Bybanks, and the water just went on and on--it was all you could see. It looked like a huge blue pasture of water." -- Salamanca Tree Hiddle There isn't anywhere on the freeway the Hiddles are on that you can actually see the lake, but this is the first beach inside the Illinois border that they might have stopped at. Thinking About the Story... For Sal everything she sees is connected back to Bybanks. The blue of the lake reminds her of the blue of the bluebells. Why do you think that is true? In the quoted sentence above there are two examples of similes, one of each kind. Can you find them?

Sal and her grandparents spend their first night on the road in a Howard Johnson's hotel in the Chicago area. There is no real reason to believe it is this one except that it is close to the line of travel to Madison, Wisconsin, their next destination.
 * H ** oward Johnson's Hotel
 * //Chapter 7, Page 37//**


 * Chapter 10, Page 55**

Ella's Kosher Deli and Ice Cream Parlor Image Source "We went into Ella's Kosher Deli and Ice Cream Parlor and ate pastrami sandwiches and kosher dill pickles, followed by raspberry ice cream."--Sal Hiddle Ella's is not fictitious! Here it is, if you'd like to see actual pictures of Ella's Kosher Deli and Ice Cream Parlor click here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/ellas-kosher-deli-and-ice-cream-parlor-madison


 * Thinking About the Story... **

What do you think of the lunch Sal orders? What would you order in a place like this? A deli is a place that typically serves sandwiches and salads. Do you know what makes a deli a kosher deli?

Click on the picture to learn about kosher food.

Steep and Brew

Chapter 10, Page 55

Steep and Brew's Website Banner

"After we walked around some more, we were hungry again, and so we had lemon tea and blueberry muffins at the Steep and Brew."--Sal Hiddle

This also is a real place, but there are more locations than just this one. Did you notice that their are no cars allowed on the street in front of this store. Why do you think that might be? Would it be more or less likely that this is the location Sal and her grandparents went to?

**Thinking About the Story...**

Steep and Brew's motto is "Coffee Done Right." Explore the Steep and Brew website and see if you can discover the "double meaning" of their motto. How many examples from the story so far can you remember where characters have "done right"?

Wisconsin Dells

Chapter 10, Page 56 Sal lost track of her Grandmother at a fort here in the Wisconsin Dells. She found her dancing in the middle of a Native American drum circle.

I was not able to find a likely fort so I put the place mark in the middle of the largest water park in the world. I'm sure Gram would have said "Huzza, huzza!"


 * Thinking About the Story... **

How is Gram like your grandmother? How is she different? How is Gramps similar and different from your Grandfather?Puzzle Maker