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Visualizing the Text
6. Reread the section below from Chapter 30, in which Sal talks about the power of visualization. Mark the text by highlighting or underlining every time Sal uses any form of the word visualize.
Once, before she left, my mother said that if you visualize something happening, you can make it happen. For example, if you are about to run a race, you visualize yourself running the race and crossing the finish line, and presto! When the time comes, it really happens. The only thing I did not understand was what if everyone visualized himself winning the race?
Still, when she left, this is what I did. I visualized her reaching for the phone. Then I visualized her dialing the phone. I visualized our phone number clicking through the wires. I visualized the phone ringing.
It did not ring.
I visualized her riding the bus back to Bybanks. I visualized her walking up the driveway. I visualized her opening the door.
It did not happen.
7. Quickwrite: Do you think it is possible to affect the future by picturing something happening? Explain your reasoning in the My Notes space.
8. In Chapter 32, Mr. Birkway shows the class a picture. Use the My Notes space to describe what you see when your teacher shows you this picture.
9. Discuss how talking about a picture with other people can help you see it in different ways. Do you think the same thing can happen with a novel?
10. On the following page, you will find an outline of a tree. As you read or review a chapter of Walk Two Moons, use the tree to take notes on different literary elements.
• Write the chapter title on the trunk.
• Describe or draw images on the tree’s branches to represent different
events.
• Draw birds or animals in the tree to represent the characters, and label
them with names.
• Describethesetting(s)withwordsorimagesonthegroundatthebase of the tree.
• Use the roots to describe events that happened earlier in the book.
• In the sky above the tree, make predictions about what will happen next.
• Add leaves to the tree with interesting diction from the chapter.
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