Day 8: 9/12/25 - How to ask Good Questions & Freak the Mighty Chapter 3

Homeroom:

Good Morning, I hope you are all having a wonderful day.

Do Now:

1. Check to see if you have all your materials
2. Check your homework
3. Sharpen pencil

ELA:

Today we will discuss chapters 1 &2 of Freak the Mighty, learn how to ask good questions, and read chapter 3.                            

Do Now:

• Write tonight's homework in your agenda
• Take out your reading guide from chapters 1 & 2

Homework: 

• Finish reading Ch 3 & complete the Reading Guide
• Bring Chromebook to class Monday

Activity #1

Review Chapters 1 & 2

Small Group Directions:

• With the members of your group discuss Chapters 1 and 2 using the Key Questions below. 
• You may add, erase, or change information on your reading guide
• Your goal is to have as much information as you can about the setting, characters, and plot
• While you work I am going to come around to check that your homework is done

Key Questions for chapter 1 & 2:

• Who are the 2 main characters?
• What do you know about them?
• How do you know? (What is your evidence?)
• What do you think about them so far?
• What is the setting? When & Where. Include Descriptive details. 
• What are the important plot events? What happened in these chapters?

Activity #2

Asking Questions?

• Good readers are always thinking about what they are reading.
• One way to think about your reading is to ask good questions
• Questions have 4 Levels 

Level 1 - Has only 1 correct answer, and the answer can be found in the book.

Ex: What is Freak's mom's name?

Ex: What does Max get out of the tree for Kevin?

Level 2 - Has an infinite number of answers, and it puts you in the book. It asks you what you think the characters should do, think, feel, etc. or what you would do, think, feel. etc. 

Ex: What do you think Max & Kevin should have done when they had their run-in with Tony D. and his gang? 

Ex: How would you react to Tony D.

Ex: If you were Max, how would you feel about being in an "LD class"

Ex: I wonder if we will ever find out why Max's dad is in prison.

In a level two question we are talking about the book, it's characters, setting, plot, etc, and putting ourselves in the book

Level 3 - Has an infinite number of answers, and it pulls something that happens in the book and asks you to apply it to your own life?

Ex: Have you ever had an encounter with a bully? If so, how did you handle it?

Ex: When was the first time you got to go somewhere alone with just a friend, and no parents to watch you? Where was it, and how did it go?

Ex: 

In a level 3 question we are no longer talking about the book or the characters. We leave the book behind and talk about situations from our own lives, that are similar to those in the book?

Level 4 - Require research & additional resources to dig deep into a question. 

Ex: Can you identify the name of the disease Kevin has, along with describing the symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment?

Ex: How is Kevin from Freak the Mighty similar to Wahoo from the book Chomp?

Ex: How does bullying affect typical American children?

Activity #2

Freak the Mighty: Chapters 3

Directions:

Read Chapter 3 and Complete each section of the Reading Guide. Notice you now have a section to write your own questions. 

Tomorrow we will go to Google Classroom and take the Chapter 3 Quiz so you will need to bring your chromebook tomorrow.