Due Tuesday:

-One completed final draft of a section from your river story (either geology, natural history, native american, or settlers).  We will begin the illustrations tomorrow -- so it's a good idea if you bring in some images you might want to base your illustrations off of.

- Jean's Farm field study assignment #2

Crooked River  Assignment #5                                                 Due: Tuesday, November 19

Read pages 136-160 (Chapters 23--27)

Choose 3 of the following questions to answer and this should be done on a separate sheet of paper or in your reading notebook.  Answers turned in on this slip of paper will not be accepted.

·         Please include specific evidence from the book in each response.  For example: ‘Ten Claw’s death is suspicious for a number of reasons.  One is that Pa accused him of shooting himself while he was running, which could be very difficult, and as Indian John says, “Even Ten Claws does not run slow enough to shoot himself with his own gun.”…’

·         You may not begin a sentence with ‘because’. J

Questions:

A.      What important evidence is introduced in these chapters?  Why is it important?

B.      Why is the testimony of Nichols important to the trial?  Which side does he seem to be on?

C.      What is Peter Kelley trying to prove about the blacksmith in Chapter 24? In your opinion, does he succeed or not?

D.      On page 146, Amik says that witness Ezra Phelps “speaks from three sides of his mouth at once.” What does this mean?

E.       Why do you think Ezra Phelps is lying to the jury about what he saw?

F.       Why does the snowshoe turn out to be an important piece of evidence?

G.     Should Rebecca have told the crowd what she knew about the trapper?  Why or why not?