Station 1:
CRT Spelling Words and Wordsearch
In this station you will make sure you know how to spell all the benchmark spelling words. Your team will get two white boards to divide amongst you. One of you will be the test giver and will give the test, while the answers are writing on the whiteboards. You may try to beat the clock with one another or just take a basic test. Make sure everyone in your group knows how to spell every word before you are asked to stop.
KEEP IN MIND ALL OF THESE WORDS WILL
SHOW UP ON THE TEST. PRACTICE THEM.
Put all finished work in your group folder when time is up and rotate to the next station when I tell you to do so.

Argument
Granted
Recede
Marshmallows
Peninsula
Lieutenant
Government
June 1884
Library
February
Prominent
excellent
Restaurant
Accidentally
Catastrophic
Privilege
Miscellaneous
Accessible

Station 2:
Bringing It to Life!
In this station, you are working together to create one common goal. The goal is to create a picture scene that shows the evidence of what’s been read. The
‘reader’ will share aloud a story that has 4 – 5 scenes in it. Each listener is to choose one of the scenes and depict to the best of their ability an illustration of what they hear is being read.
The reader may read the story more than once, but may not repeat a scene until the other scenes have been read.
The reader will judge which listener depicts their scene the best. With each new story read, a new reader must be assigned.
You will need SOPHIE’S CHALLENGE to play this game, along with a marker for each participant.

STATION 2: SOPHIE'S CHALLENGE
When the rain started in agin, the whole house filled up with quiet tension. As we gathered at the kitchen table and indulged in mama's homemade bean soup, we concentrated on the rat-a-tat of the rain drumming against the windwows, and the windows, and the wind whistling and rattling the screen door.
“Time to move to higher ground,” Daddy announced queitely as he pushed back from the table.
“You all know the drill,” Sliding into his raincoat, he bent his head against the wind and headed out towward the barn where the horses moved restlessly in the stalls.
Rain had been falling on and off for two weeks, changing the peaceful river behind our house into a violent waterway that threatened to tengulf the house. The muddy water had already swallowed up the garden and most of the lower pasture. Each of us had an assigned job, so Jake loaded up the truck and the car with blankets, flashlights, jugs of water, and other emergency items while Mama packed up food and made sandwiches. In the meantime, Mary got the baby's clothes and diapers packed; I was in charge of helping Dad with the horses.
“Scoot along now, Sophie,” Mama said to me as I dawdled over my soup, “or Daddy will have completed all your chorses for you.”
By now, the wind was propelling the cold rain horizontally and relentlessly. As I stepped into the warmth of the barn, the rich smell of hay and horses aassiailed my senses, which always made me happy; even today was no exception, but my smile faded almost instantly.
Daddy had already fed the horses, which should have been my job. He did not glance in my direction when I came in, causing my face to burn as I remembered him chastising me for being lazy and indifferent where the horses were concrned.
“Haul the saddles into the hay loft,” he said pointing to the overhead level. “Can't afford to have them ruined if the the lower level floods.” Together, silently, we secured the barn, until the only thing left to do was to drive the horses out. They would not be happy about gallping out into the rain, but they would automatically head to the high pasture where a lean-to provided shelter and no dnager of them being caught by flood waters.
“Well, open the doors.” His voice was impatient, partly angry at me and partly hurring to beat the river's encroachment. I pulled the heavy double doors open; the hinges squeked like a plattoon of lost ghosts. Daddy slaped Miser's rump with his hat and shouted a loud “yee-ha,” which caused the six horses to thunder out into the rain where they were swallowed up by the oncoming night.
Where was Prim? Simulteously we stepped into her shall where the filly stoof trembling, head down. Water was making its entranve under the barn door and we knew time was running out. Daddy directed a sterm look my way. “It's time to move out.”
“I'm not leaving Prim,” I said recklelssly. “I'm going to ride her to the pasture.” When he didn't answer I repeated my declaration loudly, only this time with tears in my voice, “I'm not leaving Prim.” For the first time in two weeks Daddy broke into a small smile.
“I know,” he responded quietly. “We'll join you in the morning. Take a blanket.” Then he was gone. The silence that came after the sound of vehicles pulling away left me alone with the wind and the rain and a very nervous horse.
I slipped a bridle over her head and pulled myself onto her back, and with a little cluck, I headed her out of the barn and into the rain, which was no longer falling hoirzontally. She hesitated for only a moment, shying away and then at my command. My vision was limited to only a few feet, but Prim's instinct headed us in the right direction. It was slow going as she slipped on the muddy stones several times, causing her hooves to scramble to keep us upright.
The thought of falling reinforced my fear of an impending disaster; however, she kept her footing, and I saw her ears pick up as she heard the other horses whinnying, indicating our close proximity to the pasture.
With the worst of the storm over, I huddled in the corner of the lean-to with all seven horses milling around me. The rain had let up even more and I buried myself in my blanket, waiting for sunrise and my dad's approval – both of them slow in coming.

Station 3:
Reading Comprehension (Literary Devices)
As a team, refresh the “literary” terms we have discussed.
You each will be given a passage entitled , which may be difficult to understand.
You will need to find as many figurative language examples as you can in the chart on your paper. The more examples you find, the more points your team will receive.
Try your best to use different strategies, avoid copying one another’s brain waves.
When you finish the showing evidence in the margins, you are to spend time as a group talking about why you thought the way you thought when you were reading.
Put all finished work in your group folder when time is up and rotate to the next station when I tell you to do so.

STATION 3: SHANNON'S CHALLENGE
“Coach, I don't think I can do this after all,” Shannon spoke tentatively, biting her lower lip to hold back the stinging tears behind her eyes.
“ Why are you talking like a defeatist, a prophet of doom, Shannon?”
“I.... I …. I … I just … can't win because … I know who I'm running against!”
Shannon exploded into angry speech while Coach Daniels listened patiently, a sparklet of triumph in his faded blue eyes. “I'm running against the top cross country female runner in the state in my age group, and she'll outrun me in the first five minutes with her strategy!”
“Shannon, Shannon, Shannon,” Coach Daniels cut gently into her tirade, his laughter sounding like faraway thunder in his expansive chest. “I'm glad you're so fired up about this race, and I'm glad you know what you're facing, who you're up against, her strengths, her weaknesses. But, I know that you know, deep inside that fine mind of yours, that you can – and will – win this race.”
Shannon sighed, “You weren't listening, Coach, when I just told you that in the first five minutes - “
“Forget the first five minutes thing and repeat after me these very important word:
I, Shannon Bjorn -”
Shannon responded obediently, but with resignation in her voice, and the same tired, defeated expression in her face.
“Will beat Sharon Rodriguez to the finish line by at least fifteen seconds tomorrow morning.”
“Will beat Sharon Rodriguez... I can't, I can't, I'm not that strong, and you're forgetting that I just sprained my ankle siex weeks ago!”
“When you focus on your weakness, you will invariably fail,” Coach Daniels answered. “Your ankle will not win or lose this race, nor any other muscle, joint, or bone; of course your body plays a part in any athletic feat, but you know what wins a race, or have your forgotten?”
“No, I haven't forgotten what you've always told me: the mind wins the race, while the body only follows orders, right?”
“Will you go home now and have a long, hot shower and write some music to those words? Take out your guitar and put those words into a little song that you can sing in your head over and over while you're leaving Sharon in the dust tomorrow.”
Perhaps cheered by the prospect of a hot shower and some time alone with her guitar, Shannon nodded, and even managed a smile. Coach Daniels grinned at her, squeezed her shoulder encouragingly, and said, “Now that's much better, and that's the first winner's smile I've seen all week. Tomorrow you will be state champion in cross country running; in fact, you can even make that another line in your guitar song.”
Shannon laughed, picked up her duffel bag full of sweat-soaked towels, empty water bottles, and ankle braces, and said goodbye to Coach Daniels in a considerably more cheerful tone of voice than she'd used just moments before. Watching her walk across the all-weather track toward the locker room Coach Daniels thought aloud to himself, “There goes a true champion athlete on the road to gold.”

Station 4:
Grammar Worksheet
This is a good old fashion 2-sided worksheet, each of you need your own copy to do this station. As a team, you are to work together to get the answers. Not only are you to help one another, you are to justify your answers in the margins. Tell me why you think you made the correct choice.
Put all finished work in your group folder when time is up and rotate to the next station when I tell you to do so.

Grammar Worksheet
Circle the correct answer in the following sentences.
1.
The children sensed his/her/their/its ending by the warmth and comfort of the spring air.
2.
We rafted on the Colorado River/Colorado river with the James family.
3.
It is too/to dangerous to walk through/threw the cave.
Punctuate and capitalize (by underlining) the following sentences
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Today , the statue 's title
, “L iberty E nlightening the
W orld
” is known by people all over the world.
The O dyssey is an epic poem by H omer.
I want to see my favorite band ,
T ool , this past weekend.
Without knowing it , the students had set back the classroom clock an hour.
The meeting M rs Paul said ,
“Will be held in the gym .”
Jamie ' s favorite class at R amona M iddle S chool is history.

Station 5:
Word Definitions / Words in Context
(Memory Game)
Break your group up into two smaller teams and play Memory using the game cards to support word definitions and words in context. If you finish early, try timing your next game and try to beat your opposing team.
1. Conflict 1 .Problem 2. Resolution 2. ending 3. Go with the

3. Be flexible 4. Cold knife in the back
4. Feeling pain 5. Getting water from the moon
Question: what literary device is this flow
5. Impossible
Answer: metaphor
6. Hyperbole
8 Unexpected types: situational dramatic
11.
Personification
13. Very sad
Answer: idiom
Station 6:
6. Extreme exaggeration
9. Beating the bush
Question: what literary device is this?
7. Metaphor 7. Comparing two dissimilar items
9. Avoiding the topic
Answer: idiom
10. He had his eye on the
Olympics
Question:
What literary device is this?
11 Giving human traits
(especially through
12 Simile
Example: verbs) to inhumane steady as a rock items
14. imagery 14.
Descriptive language
12 Comparing two unsimilar things using like or as.
8. Irony
10. He wanted to compete in the Olympics
Answer:
Idiom
13. Down in the dumps
Question:
What literary device is this?
15. alliteration 15. Repeating the same letter at the beginning of each word in a sentence

Pick a word from the list to draw:
Team A:

Flashback
Down-and- out (troubled)
Applications
Bursting with emotion
The sun laughed down on the flower (literally. Meaning a sun is laughing)
My love is like a rock (figuratively. A person’s love is strong)
Down in the dump (literally, a person laying in the trash)
Steady as a rock (figuratively, a very stable person)
Team B:
At the stroke of midnight
Genetics
Receptacle
My love is like a rock (literally. The person’s love looks like a rock)
The sun laughed down on the flower (figuratively. It is a beautiful day)
Down in the dumps (figuratively, a person is really sad)
Steady as a rock (literally, a sturdy rock)