Faith and eddie

1. Faith and eddie By Patrick Jennings

2. moving • In your groups, discuss the following questions. • What would you miss the most if you moved away from your home? • Have you ever moved away from a friend? Has a friend ever moved away from you? How did you feel? • Now imagine moving somewhere where a different language is spoken… • Have you ever wished you could speak a different language? Which one, and why? • What kinds of activities help you learn new things?

3. vocabulary • Look up the following words in your groups, and write them in your response logs: • Alternating • Anticipation • Cemetery • Darted • Faith • Retraced • Scent • Withdrew

4. connotations • Connotations are favorable or unfavorable meanings that words suggest • They are pairs of synonyms that have the same meaning, but may have positive or negative connotations • Example: scent, odor • Scent and odor have the same meaning, a smell, but scent has a positive connotation while odor has a negative connotation • When you think of scent, you think of something that smells good, like a flower. When you think of odor, you think of something that smells bad, like garbage • Which vocab words have positive and negative connotations?

5. homophones • Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. • To understand their meanings, look for clues in the surrounding words and sentences. • Scent and cent are homophones. Read the paragraph “From Spain to Mexico” on page 42 and try to figure out why scent is used and not cent.

6. Homophone practice • Write sentences for each homophone pair. • in, inn • seem, seam • one, won • flower, flour

7. Preview and predict • Read the title and look through the illustrations in the story • Answer the questions in box 1 in your reading response log • What do the pictures tell you about the relationship between the dog and the girl? • Who do you think the story will be mostly about? • What do you notice in the margins? What does this information tell you? • What do you want to discover about Faith and Eddie?

8. POP QUIZ!!! • If something is alternating, what is it doing? • What is an event you have thought about with anticipation? • Why would someone go to a cemetery? • What is something someone might have faithin? • If a group of people retraced their steps, where did they walk? • What object might have a pleasant scent? • If you withdrew money from the bank, what would you be doing?

9. Let’s Read! • Please turn to page 44 and follow along as we read Faith and Eddie.

10. Character (pages 44-45) • How do we know what Eddie is like? • What are some clues in the story so far that tell us something about Eddie’s character? • If Eddie were a person, how would you describe him?

11. In your groups… (pages 46-49) • Describe the characters, setting, and main events so far • Review what we know so far to see if any of your predictions have come true. Then, make a new prediction as to what is going to happen next.

12. Character (pages 49-51) • What have we learned about Coco so far? • HINT: if you pay attention to how Faith responds to what Coco says and does, you can understand Coco even better  • Find something in the story a character says or does that reveals Coco’s character. • Discuss at your tables: • How does Coco respond to Faith? • What do we find out about Faith from Coco?

13. Foreshadowing (pages 52-53) • Foreshadowing: the hints an author gives about what might happen later in a story. • These 2 events suggest foreshadowing in this story: • Eddie says “the roof fell in” which means something serious has happened. • Coco keeps checking her watch and pacing, which could mean that something that is supposed to happen is not happening on schedule. • What other examples of foreshadowing can you find in the first 4 paragraphs under the heading “Electric Shoes?” Foreshadowing Video!

14. Mood • Mood: the way the author makes YOU feel about a story • Mood is created by: • Word choice • Imagery (vivid descriptions of setting, characters) • In movies, directors create mood through: • Dialogue, editing, music, lighting • Examples of positive mood words: • Amused, energetic, hopeful, joyous, light-hearted, relaxed, silly, touched • Examples of negative mood words: • Annoyed, anxious, confused, frustrated, gloomy, nervous, scared, stressed, suspenseful, terrifying • As you watch these clips, write down the MOOD words they make you feel Clip #1Clip #3 Clip #2Clip #4

15. Setting • Setting: the time and place that events occur • A change in the setting can affect the mood, or feeling, of the story • The author uses the details of the setting and the characters’ emotions to help create the mood in a story • Re-read pages 55-57, and write down descriptive words and phrases that help create the mood • What mood is created when Eddie howls at the moon? • How does the mood change when Eddie sees the lights of Faith’s shoes?

16. POP QUIZ! • On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions in complete sentences. Try to use as many details from the story as you can. • Don’t forget to use a proper heading! • First, Eddie chases after a stick. Then, he chases after Faith. What is different about the two chases? • When Eddie first catches up to Faith on the dirt road toward town, why does she tell him to go away at first? • Think about Faith. How does this character feel about living in San Cristobal de las Casas? How do you know?