| 1. | What do we know about Joe Stoshack at the beginning of the book? What did he look like and what was he like as a person? (Write on flip chart.) |
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| 2. | What was he like as a grown-up in 1909? How has he changed by the end of the book? |
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| 3. | In what ways are Joe and Honus alike and different from each other? (Write on flip chart.) |
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| 4. | Did you think Joe should return the card to Amanda Young? Talk about Joe's dilemma. |
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| 5. | Which parts of the book did you think were true and which parts were fantasy? Did the magic of the baseball cards and time travel make sense to you? (Talk a bit about the literary device "willing suspension of disbelief"--help explain to kids). |
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| 6. | Did the black and white photos and drawings in the book make it seem more real? What "extras" that the author included in the book did you like the best? |
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| 7. | What did you find out about life in 1909? About baseball in 1909? What did Honus find out about baseball now? |
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| 8. | What did you think of Joe's mother and father? Who did you agree with most? |
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| 9. | If Joe had sold the card for half a million dollars, how would it have changed his life? |
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| 10. | What did you think when Honus' teammate tore up the twelve cards and when Amanda tore up her card? |
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| 11. | Was the ending satisfying or how would you have changed it? (Could it have turned out any other way?) |
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| 12. | What would you have done if you'd found a valuable baseball card, but you weren't sure whom it belonged to? |
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| 13. | How did Honus help Joe? And how did Joe help Honus? |
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| 14. | If you knew someone from the future who knew all about your future, would you want them to tell you what they knew? |
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| 15. | Were there any questions left unanswered at the end? |
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