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ID Puzzle Handout
Read all of the directions first!
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Visit
4 of 6 "puzzle" links
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For each one:
1. Read/observe
the information.
2. List
at least 7 items you observe about the person's identity
on your group paper.
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The items can be any important information
you notice in the photo or text.
3.
Where possible
label
events with the character traits
that are shown by the action.
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the examples before
you get started.
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Pick 4 of these links.
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Discuss:
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What categories and trends do you notice?
4.
List all of the
categories that your group discusses.
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Go back to Who
Am I? page for the next step.
PUZZLE
1
Harvey
Harvey doesn't like to laugh about how I stay short while
everybody grows.
Harvey remembers I like jellybeans--except black.
Harvey lends me shirts I don't have to give back.
I'm scared of ghosts and only Harvey knows.
Harvey thinks I will when I say someday I will marry Margie
Rose.
Harvey shares his lemonade--sip for sip.
He whispers "zip" when I forget to zip.
He swears I don't have funny looking toes.
Harvey calls me up when I'm in bed with a sore throat
and runny nose.
Harvey says I'm nice -- but not too nice.
And if there is a train to Paradise,
I won't get on it unless Harvey goes.
Viorst, Judith. If I were in
charge of the universe
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Puzzle 2
Click
here to view the photo.
Make sure you clearly describe which person
you choose.
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The photographer
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The man with the green backpack
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The man in the center of the picture with the dark
backpack.
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Puzzle 3
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Bagpipes will blare and 41-gun salutes will boom
out at noon Friday to mark the first 100th birthday ever celebrated in
the long history of Britain's royal family. The Queen Mother an alert and
chipper centenarian who still reads the daily racing form each morning
will parade down the Mall to Buckingham Palace in a four-horse landau,
offering her trademark pink-fingernailed wave to an adoring crowd.
(excerpt from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30662-2000Aug3.html)
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Puzzle 4
Click
here to view a photo of Maria Gonzalez and soldaderas courtesy of UT Austin
Choose one of the three ladies.
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Describe Maria (the lady holding the flag)
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Lady on the left (with the bow in her hair)
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Lady on the right (wearing a hat)
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Puzzle 5
Villa, Pancho
c.1877-1923, Mexican revolutionary; b. Doroteo Arango.
A bandit in N Mexico, he joined (1910) the rebels and fought vigorously
for Pres. MADERO and later against Gen. HUERTA and Pres. CARRANZA. He and
ZAPATA occupied (1914-15) Mexico City, but he was decisively defeated (1915)
by Gen. OBREGóN. After Villa's forces killed (1916) some American
citizens at Columbus, N.Mex., a U.S. army expedition pursued Villa in Mexico
for 11 months without success. At times a rebel against injustice, but
always an undirected, destructive force, Villa became a national hero.
http://www.encyclopedia.com
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Puzzle 6
Manuel
The only time I recall Manuel saying anything bad
about anybody was when Sister Ann told him
his pachuco hairstyle
looked like a bird's nest.
We would steal Cokes from the delivery truck, sip them
like gentlemen of leisure on his porch after school
as he strummed his twelve-string guitar, sang corridos.
One night he and some others broke into a grocery store,
and Manuel, who was always so polite, was the last one
out.
The only name the cops got out of him was his own.
Twelve years later, when I saw him for the first time
since,
he told me how hard finding jobs had been.
The cost of groceries getting higher and higher.
Quintana, Leroy V. The History of Home
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