Part 1

Bad Boy Chapter Jigsaw: Marks on Paper; The Stranger (22 Pages)
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Directions: You will work in a group of 3-4 people and create a poster that covers two chapters of
Bad Boy for your classmates. Your poster must include the following: journal prompts,
vocabulary complete in a frayer model, sentences in three different verb moods from the text,
answers to chapter questions, a BCR response and a chapter summary. During day one you
should focus on reading the chapters and completing the chapter questions. Use the pages read
and CQs(Chapter Questions) to assign specific pages for group members to read. During day two
you should create the journal prompts, complete the vocabulary, write the chapter summary and
creatively place the information on a poster.
Chapter Questions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences after reading your
assigned chapters.
1. Why was school become a disaster for Walter at the beginning of his senior year?
2. How was Walter affected when he began to read the books that his teacher has suggested
to him?
3. Why did Walter conclude that he wanted to write like Balzac?
4. Why did Mama accompany Walter to school one morning?
5. How did Walter react to his interview with the man from the city agency?
6. Why did Walter want to experience and then write about detachment from the world
around him?
BCR: Select one of the following extended response questions to answer in ACE
(Answer,Cite,Explain)
Option # 1 Why do you think that Walter was now unable to be a good students despite his
intelligence and his love of reading?
Option # 2 Why do you think Mama did not want Walter to hang out with Frank? Do you feel that
she mad a fair assessment of his character? Do you think his company helped or harmed Walter?
Journal Prompts: Consider an emotion or event that Walter experienced in your chapters.
Create two journal prompt for your classmates to connect with Walter. For example if Walter
experienced failure, you may ask the following: Describe a time that you failed at something.
How did you feel? What were you trying to accomplish?
Vocabulary: Complete the following vocabulary words using the frayer model. You may use an
electronic device, context clues or a dictionary to define the words. You must also include an
original sentence and part of speech. Vocabulary: encounter, mundane, predicament, articulate.
Chapter Summary: You must include a 4-5 sentence chapter summary for EACH chapter that
covers major events from the chapter.
Verb Moods: Find sentences that are in at least three different verb moods. Write the sentence
and identify the verb mood.

Part 2
Bad Boy Chapter Jigsaw: Dr. Holiday; Being Black (14 pages)
Name ____________________________ Pages Read _______ CQs Answered _______ Period _______
Name ____________________________ Pages Read _______ CQs Answered _______ Date _________
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Directions: You will work in a group of 2-3 people and create a poster that covers two chapters of
Bad Boy for your classmates. Your poster must include the following: journal prompts,
vocabulary complete in a frayer model, sentences in three different verb moods from the text,
answers to chapter questions, a BCR response and a chapter summary. During day one you
should focus on reading the chapters and completing the chapter questions. Use the pages read
and CQs(Chapter Questions) to assign specific pages for group members to read. During day two
you should create the journal prompts, complete the vocabulary, write the chapter summary and
creatively place the information on a poster. Chapter Questions: Answer the following
questions in complete sentences after reading your assigned chapters.
1. When did Walters writing become the focus of his life?
2. Why did Walter feel isolated and alone among his peers?
3. Why did Walter identify with the character Stephen Daedalus in James Joyces book A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
4. According to Walter, why was he sent to Dr. Holidays office?
5. Why did Walter have to fake his answer to Dr. Holiday when she asked, Do you like being
black?
6. What event during his high school years finally informed Walter of the existence of racial
discrimination?
BCR: Select one of the following extended response questions to answer in ACE
(Answer,Cite,Explain)
Option # 1 Why do you think Walter did not cooperate with Dr. Holiday? Do you think she might
have been able to help Walter?
Option # 2 From what you know about Walter, was there any career other than writing that
would suit him? Why or why not?
Journal Prompts: Consider an emotion or event that Walter experienced in your chapters.
Create two journal prompt for your classmates to connect with Walter. For example if Walter
experienced failure, you may ask the following: Describe a time that you failed at something.
How did you feel? What were you trying to accomplish?
Vocabulary: Complete the following vocabulary words using the frayer model. You may use an
electronic device, context clues or a dictionary to define the words. You must also include an
original sentence and part of speech. Vocabulary: anonymous, conviction, confrontation,
sporadic, nuance.
Chapter Summary: You must include a 4-5 sentence chapter summary for EACH chapter that
covers major events from the chapter.

Verb Moods: Find sentences that are in at least three different verb moods. Write the sentence
and identify the verb mood.

Part 3
Bad Boy Chapter Jigsaw: 1954; Sweet Sixteen; The Typist (26 pages)
Name
Name
Name
Name

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Pages
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Read
Read
Read
Read

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CQs
CQs
CQs
CQs

Answered
Answered
Answered
Answered

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_______ Date _________
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Directions: You will work in a group of 4 people and create a poster that covers three chapters of
Bad Boy for your classmates. Your poster must include the following: journal prompts,
vocabulary complete in a frayer model, sentences in three different verb moods from the text,
answers to chapter questions, a BCR response and a chapter summary. During day one you
should focus on reading the chapters and completing the chapter questions. Use the pages read
and CQs(Chapter Questions) to assign specific pages for group members to read. During day two
you should create the journal prompts, complete the vocabulary, write the chapter summary and
creatively place the information on a poster. Chapter Questions: Answer the following
questions in complete sentences after reading your assigned chapters.
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Why did Walters senior year at Stuyvesant begin in a panic?

According to Walter which of his strengths isolated him from his peers?
Why werent Walters parents aware that their son was not attending school?
Why had Walters father never acknowledged his sons writing?
Why did Walter join the army?
Why did Walter believe his experiences up to the age of seventeen prepare him for a
career as a writer?
7. What motivated Walter to resume writing?
8. How did the writer James Baldwin influence Walters writing?
BCR: Select one of the following extended response questions to answer in ACE
(Answer,Cite,Explain)
Option # 1 Why do you think Walter was losing his ability to comprehend literature and even his
own writing? Why was he staying alone in his room most of his days?
Option # 2 What effect do you think the incident that culminated in the fights in the bathroom
had upon Walters future?
Option # 3 Why do you think Walter Dean Myers express his love for a career as a writer?
Journal Prompts: Consider an emotion or event that Walter experienced in your chapters.
Create two journal prompt for your classmates to connect with Walter. For example if Walter

experienced failure, you may ask the following: Describe a time that you failed at something.
How did you feel? What were you trying to accomplish?
Vocabulary: Complete the following vocabulary words using the frayer model. You may use an
electronic device, context clues or a dictionary to define the words. You must also include an
original sentence and part of speech. Vocabulary: fragile, despair, mediate, squander.
Chapter Summary: You must include a 4-5 sentence chapter summary for EACH chapter that
covers major events from the chapter.
Verb Moods: Find sentences that are in at least three different verb moods. Write the sentence
and identify the verb mood.