Grandfather
In Chapter 1, we learn a good bit about Grandfather and little Willy. List some details you know about each of these
characters.
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Little Willy
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Select either Grandfather or little Willy. Tell what you like most about them using details from the book.
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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words,
or actions).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how
characters interact).
Answer Key for Constructive Response
Grandfather
Little Willy
 likes to joke
 10 year old - young boy
o pretends to be a scarecrow
 likes living on the potato farm in
o gives little Willy’s breakfast to
Wyoming even though it is a hard life
chickens
 lives with his grandfather
 plays harmonica
 enjoys his grandfather’s jokes
 medically healthy as an oxen yet won’t
 shows maturity by going to Doc Smith’s
get out of bed
for help when Grandfather won’t get up
 seems to have given up on living
 asks many questions
 beard full of tears when little Willy
 determined to help
returns with the doc
 Grandfather likes little Willy’s questions
In some ways little Willy and Grandfather are opposites. Little Willy is determined to find out what
is wrong with Grandfather and make him well again. On the other hand Grandfather has completely
given up. Grandfather won’t even try to get out of bed and talk about the problem which the
reader and little Willy do not know at this point in the story.
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p Lesson 2 Adding Adjectives to Simple Sentence (Adjective Order)
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