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Teacher Notes
18 SpringBoard® English Language Arts Grade 9
SCAFFOLDING THE TEXT-DEPENDENT QUESTIONS
4. Craft and Structure (RL.9–10.5) Notice that in paragraph 9, the narrator uses foreshadowing. What is the effect of this hinting at events to come? Highlight other hints or foreshadowing provided by the narrator. Read paragraph 9.
In the first sentence of paragraph 9, how does the author create a sense of what’s to come? Read paragraph 8. What word choices build suspense and imply that something foreboding will happen?
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ACTIVITY 1.5
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Defining Experiences
idleness: not being active prospect: possibility or chance of happening
GRAMMAR USAGE
Subjunctive Verbs
Formal diction sometimes requires the use of verbs in the subjunctive mood. In English, the only common use of the subjunctive mood is to express a doubt, a wish, a possibility, or a situation contrary to fact. In these cases, the verb were, not was, is used with a singular subject; for example:
Right: If I were born in the 1800s ...
Wrong: If I was born in the 1800s ...
The narrator of “Marigolds” uses the subjunctive
verb were in a sentence
in paragraph 3. Think about why the author would choose to use the subjunctive.
My Notes
10 “Hey, Lizabeth,” Joey yelled. He never talked when he could yell. “Hey, Lizabeth, let’s go somewhere.”
11 I came reluctantly from my private world. “Where you want to go? What you want to do?”
12 The truth was that we were becoming tired of the formlessness of our summer days. The idleness whose prospect had seemed so beautiful during the busy days
of spring now had degenerated to an almost desperate effort to fill up the empty midday hours.
13 “Let’s go see can we find some locusts on the hill,” someone suggested.
14 Joey was scornful. “Ain’t no more locusts there. Y’all got ’em all while they was
still green.”
15 The argument that followed was brief and not really worth the effort. Hunting locust trees wasn’t fun anymore by now.
16 “Tell you what,” said Joey finally, his eyes sparkling. “Let’s us go over to Miss Lottie’s.”
17 The idea caught on at once, for annoying Miss Lottie was always fun. I was still child enough to scamper along with the group over rickety fences and through bushes that tore our already raggedy clothes, back to where Miss Lottie lived. I think now that we must have made a tragicomic spectacle, five or six kids of different ages, each of us clad in only one garment—the girls in faded dresses that were too long or too short, the boys in patchy pants, their sweaty brown chests gleaming in the hot sun. A little cloud of dust followed our thin legs and bare feet as we tramped over the barren land.
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