Chapter+6

**Pre-Reading Activity/Question:**
Have you ever participated in any kind of political campaign in your school or community? What did you like or dislike about the process? If you never participated in a campaign before, would you like to? Why or why not? Be specific in your response. OR Find five or six objects / props from the story and put them in a brown bag. Together with the students discuss the significance of each object in relation to the text. This activity offers an opportunity to recall the important events in the story. Suggestions for objects / props in the bag: campaign button, diner menu, a newspaper article about a corrupt politician, poetry book, a pamphlet from the American Cancer Society etc...

**Vocabulary:**

 * plodded pg.50
 * inherited pg.52
 * tainted pg.52
 * chiseled pg.53
 * wick pg.54
 * hearse pg.55

**Reading Lesson Topics:**
Suggested tasks:
 * Creating a newspaper**
 * Article- Pretend you are a writer for the IS 93 Times. Write a report about the recent political controversy that has taken place in Mulhoney.
 * Advice- Create an advice column on which you advise Hope on how to deal with her feelings towards her mother and nonexistent father.
 * Interview-Pretend you are a newspaper reporter whose job is to interview one of the characters. Be sure the interview contains both questions and answers.
 * Cartoon- Summarize a conflict in the story through the use of a comic strip panel.
 * Advertisement- Create an advertisement for the Welcome Stairway. The message of the advertisment must be related to the comfort food you can find there.

**Writing Activities:**
Reread the paragraph beginning with "G.T. looked..." on page 56. How has G.T. followed his mother's outlook on life? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Why does Eli Millstone send a hearse to park in front of G.T. Stoop's diner? What message is he trying to send?

What are some of the illegal or unethical things that Eli Millstone is suspected of doing? What are the clues that suggest he is guilty of these things? [|hope was here quiz 6-7.docx]