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ACtiVitY 3.4
interacting in Meaningful Ways: Academic Collaboration
Learning Targets
• Ask and answer questions about the author’s claim in collaborative conversations, demonstrating active listening, and drawing upon an expanding pool of language resources for discussing literature.
• Express and support opinions of a topic in conversation.
• Read closely to make inferences and draw conclusions.
Turn to your partner or small group to discuss each question about “The First Americans.” After you have discussed a question, write notes about your answer before going on to the next question.
1. What is Scott H. Peters’s main claim in the letter? After discussing it, try to summarize it in one sentence.
2. What examples of pathos does Scott H. Peters use to appeal to his readers’ feelings? Do you think they are effective?
The author’s claim in this letter is .
The sad description
of appeals to my feelings.
3. What appeals to logic and reason does the letter make? What evidence does the author give to support these examples of logos?
4. Evaluate the author’s overall argument. Explain why you think it is or is not effective.
Overall, the author does/does not support his claim because .
The author’s account of sounds logical because .
asking Questions
With your partner or small group, reread the last three paragraphs of the letter. Notice that Scott H. Peters claimed history books were unfair to the first Americans. Do you think that is still true today almost 100 years after the letter was written? What questions would you ask yourself about a history textbook to find out if it was fair or not to Native Americans? Write one question to share with the whole class.
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