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aCTIVITY 2.4
Interacting in Meaningful ways: academic Collaboration
Learning Targets
• Ask and answer questions about an expository text in collaborative conversations, demonstrating active listening, and drawing upon an expanding pool of language resources for discussing literature.
• Express and support opinions in conversation.
Turn to your partner or small group to discuss each question about Travels with Charley. After you have discussed a question, write notes about your answer before going on to the next question.
1. What is the author’s purpose in Travels with Charley? How do you know?
2. What details support the central idea in the story? Cite evidence from the story in a summary.
I think the author’s purpose is .
3. What words and phrases in the story help you to visualize Charley’s reaction to bears?
4. How do the last three sentences of paragraph 11 contribute to the author’s conclusion?
Based on I think .
Asking Questions
Literary nonfiction is based on facts and real events. In this memoir, Steinbeck is writing about a actual event that happened. With your partner or small group, read aloud the ending of Travels with Charley. Discuss what questions you have about the ending. Write one question to share with the whole class.
The details that support the central idea are .
I think the words help me to visualize it because .
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