First Part Last

AGENDA:

1. Grammar and Style Writing Practice:

Toying With Words

2. Return Montana 1948, go down to library for Angela Johnson's First Part Last

3. Work on completing Montana story!

4. HMWK:  Read to pg. 42 in First Part Last!

First Part Last by Angela Johnson

Link to Angela Johnson:

http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Angela-Johnson/1263944 

http://www.ohiochannel.org/MediaLibrary/Media.aspx?fileId=126267 

http://www.ajohnsonauthor.com/


http://www.teachingbooks.net/slideshows/johnson/Reads_FirstPartLast.html



http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2009/02/08/angela-johnson/



Discussion Questions:

1. How did Bobby’s parents respond to the news of Nia’s pregnancy (pg. 12)? How did Nia’s parents respond to this (pg. 20)? How would your parents respond to this same announcement?
2. Look at how Bobby’s friends react (pg. 37-40). How would your friends react?
3. What does Bobby mean by saying, “I walk to my room…look around my room and miss me” (pg. 35)?
4. How does Bobby feel about Feather? Would this be different if Nia were awake? (pg 81)
5. What do you think about everyone’s reaction to Bobby and Nia’s decision to put their baby up for adoption?
6. Do you agree with the way Bobby’s parents support (or don’t support) him and Feather?
7. Imagine your room at home. What things would you have to change if you became a full-time parent? What everyday things would you have to do differently?
8. Where do you see these characters five, ten years from now?