Name: Date: Essential Question: What is your favorite similarity and difference between African and American culture

is? African Culture discussion questions Fiction: Honey, Honey, Lion! By Jan Brett 1. Name two animals that you can recall from the reading? Blooms: Knowledge 2. Why did the badger need to learn a lesson? Blooms: Evaluation 3. Describe one event the Badger experienced that was used to treat him a lesson? Blooms: Analyze 4. How would you characterize the honey guide? Blooms: Evaluation 5. Do you think the Badger learned his lesson? Blooms: Analysis 6. What would you have done differently to teach the Badger a lesson? Blooms: Evaluation 7. What do you notice that is interesting about the African landscape? Blooms: Knowledge 8. Are you more similar to the Badger or the Honey guide in this story? Blooms: Analysis 9. Do you believe the Badger will be more caring from now on? Blooms: Analysis 10. List your observations on what you see is unique about the animals living area. Blooms: Application

11. How would you summarize the main lesson to be learned in this book? Blooms: Evaluation 12. What do you think the word papyrus means? Blooms: Comprehension 13. The water hole was a great hang out place for the animals, why do you think this is? Blooms: Knowledge 14. Would you recommend this book to other students? Why or why not? Blooms: Synthesis 15. Organize the main events in order, mention at least five. Blooms: Application

Non-fiction: Never Forgotten by Patricia McKissack 1. What was your overall feeling about the book? Blooms: Evaluation 2. What was the main problem within the story? Blooms: Comprehension 3. What kinds of emotions were put into the reading? Blooms: Analysis 4. What was so significant about the missing boy? Blooms: Knowledge 5. What connections do you have to the story? Blooms: Evaluation 6. Plan a new way the boy could be saved or returned to his father? Blooms: Synthesis 7. Choose one character and explain what you thought was their best characteristics?

Blooms: Application 8. Organize and explain the five most important events in the story? Blooms: Application 9. Design a new ending to the story? Blooms: Synthesis 10. Describe the main lesson be taught in this story? Blooms: Knowledge 11. Rewrite one page of the story based in the images in the book? Blooms: Comprehension 12. Analyze the fathers reactions and explain what you think his emotions were? Blooms: Analysis 13. Summarize the ending of the story in your own way? Blooms: Evaluation 14. State the culturally differences in the story from American culture? Blooms: Knowledge 15. Point out what you would do to change the story? Blooms: Application