Task
1:
In this task you are going to learn what it is like to be a
blind person.
Procedure:
1. Get a blindfold.
2. Find a partner.
3.
Get your partner to tie the blindfold around your eyes.
4. Ask your partner
to direct you around the room.
Hint: It's a lot easier if you and your partner
make up signals. Example: If your partner taps you on your right shoulder then
you turn right, if your partner taps you on your left shoulder then you turn to
your left, or if your partner taps you on your head then you stop.
Evaluation:
If you trust your partner: 25 points.
If your partner doesn't bump you
into anything: 50 points.
If you make signals to direct the other person: 25
points.
Task
2:
In this task you will learn how to identify things.
Procedure:
1.
Walk around a room with your eyes closed.
2. See if you can identify ten things
in the room.
3. Next see if you can also get around the room without bumping
into things.
Hint: If you walk the way that Miss Thompson told Jimmy to, it
would be a lot easier to get through.
Evaluation:
If
you can keep your eyes closed: 25 points.
If you identify ten things in the
room correctly: 50 points.
If you don't bump into more than 2 things when you
repeat this over again: 25 points.
Task
3:
In
this task, you will learn to tell directions by the clock as Jimmy did.
Procedure:
1. Get in a small room that you know very well.
2. Get a partner to call out
a time (6:00, 11:00.)
4. Walk to where the time would be if 12:00 was in front
of you.
Hint: Imagine you being the hand or the center of the clock.
Evaluation:
If you know the room very well: 25 points.
If you go to the right time
that your partner calls out: 25 points.
If your partner doesn't try to trick
you in the game: 50 points.
Task
4:
In this task you will learn to write in Braille.
Procedure:
1.
Look on pages 46-48 in your Follow My Leader book.
2. Write your full name
in Braille.
3. Now write a small letter to Jimmy in Braille.
Evaluation:
If you write Braille on the subject: 25 points.
If you write your full
name in Braille correctly: 25 points.
If you write the small letter in Braille
correctly: 50 points.
Task
5:
In this task you will draw what you think a guide dog school
looks like.
Procedure:
1. Get some paper.
2. Start to draw
what you think a guide dog school looks like.
3. Color your picture neatly.
4.
Research to see how different your picture is from a real guide dog school.
Evaluation:
If you draw a Guide Dog School: 25 points.
If you color your picture
in neatly: 25 points.
If you research to see how different your picture is
from a real Guide Dog School: 50 points.
Task
6:
Questions related to novel.
Procedure:
Answer the questions in complete sentences.
Evaluation:
3 points for each correct answer.
Chapter 1
1. What caused Jimmy to go blind?
2. How did Jimmy's family react
to Jimmy's Blindness?
Chapter 2
1. Explain how Jimmy felt when he found out that he was blind?
2.
Why did Jimmy scream at the people who tried to help him?
Chapter 3
1. What is a certified tool that blind people use?
2. What did
Ms. Thompson mean when she said "Just because your blind doesn't mean that
you can't see"?
Chapter 4
1. How did Jimmy react when he fell over the mop bucket?
2. Judge
if Jimmy should have tried to wash the dishes.
Chapter
5
1. What are the things that Jimmy learned to do in chapter 5?
2. What
did Miss Thompson give to Art and Chuck to help them communicate with Jimmy?
Chapter
6
1. What was Miss. Thompson planning to take Jimmy to do?
2. What passed
by Jimmy that made him think he was going to die?
Chapter 7
1. When
Jimmy was waving an envelope in the air, what was in it?
2. When the envelope
came about the guide dog school, was Jimmy accepted?
Chapter 8
1. When
Chuck and Art came over how did they react to Jimmy getting into guide dog school?
2.
How long did Jimmy have to stay at the school?
Chapter 9
1. Who brought
Jimmy to the bus stop to go to the guide dog school?
2. How did Jimmy feel
in side about going away for four weeks?
Chapter 10
1. What was the
teachers name?
2. What was the first place that they were going to walk?
Chapter
11
1. What did Jimmy use to brush his teeth in this chapter?
2. What is
the system that kids used to mark their clothes?
Chapter
12
1. What was Jimmy's Guide dog named?
2. Describe how Jimmy felt on the
plane when he was blind.
Chapter
13
1. Compare Judy and Jimmy.
2. Summarize chapter 13.
Chapter
14
1. How did Leader feel when Carolyn
rushed into the room to pet him?
3.
Decide if Carolyn should have rushed in to hug leader.
Chapter
15
1. Why did the man (owner of the business that sold corners) think that
Jimmy couldn't own a corner?
2. Decide if Jimmy should study law.
Chapter
16
1. Judge if Jimmy should have made up with Mike.
2. How did Mike feel
with Leader around?
Chapter
17
1. Decide if the boys should have gone
wondering around the campsite
without
permission.
2. How did Leader guide the boys to camp?
