"Mixed-Up Files" Day 12

1. Finish your THREE self-chosen activities:
• Make a timeline of the activities of the runaways.  How many days were they gone?  Choose a picture symbol for each day OR write a one-sentence caption like a cartoon.
• Pretend you are either Jamie OR Claudia.  Write a diary entry for each day you were gone.
• Pretend you are a newspaper reporter.  Write the story of the missing children OR the follow-up story of the children's return.
• Write a script of the children's return home.
• Choose ten of the unknown words from the story.  Use them correctly in a summary of the book.
• Write a letter to either Jamie or Claudia.  Describe their actions/choices that you agree and disagree with as well as ask them questions they could answer in a reply.
2. Complete a Character Report Card for a DIFFERENT character from "Mixed-Up Files"
3. Free read!