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interpret the Text using Close Reading
Learning Targets
• Read closely and annotate the text. PI.7.6
• Understand how text is structured to express ideas. PII.7.1
Read and Annotate
Read the excerpt from Tangerine and annotate the text as you read.
■ Use the My Notes area to write questions or ideas you have about the story.
■ Underline the words and phrases that tell you how or when an action takes place.
■ Put a star next to the central incident in the story.
■ Put exclamation marks next to the students’ responses to the incident.
■ Circle unknown words and phrases.
aCTiViTY 1.3
My notes
novel excerpt
from
Tangerine
by Edward Bloor
1 I stood there, trying to think of a comeback, when suddenly, I heard a whooshing sound, like the sound you get when you open a vacuum-sealed can of peanuts. The brown water that had puddled up all over the field began to move. It began to run toward the back portable, like someone had pulled the plug out of a giant bathtub. Next came a crack-crack-cracking sound. The boards began to come apart, and the loose mud under the walkways began to slide toward that giant bathtub drain.
2 One after another the doors of the portables opened and the teacher looked out, staring into the dense rain, trying to spot the cause of all this commotion. Mr. Ward opened the door of Portable 19. He stepped out onto the porch and looked around back. Across the field, the kids from Ms. Alvarez’s portable came walking out with their belongings, in single file, like they were supposed to do in a fire drill. Other teachers saw that and started their kids out too. But suddenly there was a larger sound. A louder whoosh turned every head and opened every eye in that rainy field. Then the walkways started to heave up and down making terrible splintering noises.
3 Immediately kids started screaming and vaulting over the handrails, landing in the ankle-deep mud. Another whoosh and more violent cracking sounds followed. Then every seventh and eighth grader started to pour out of those portables, some still calm, some panicking.
4 There was instant and total chaos in the back row, the one nearest to the football field, because the portables themselves were starting to break apart and move. The kids came diving out, jamming in the doorways, pushing into the backs of other kids, knocking each other flat on the disintegrating boardwalk. They knocked each other into the moving mudslide that was now swirling in a circle around them.
What is happening here? It must be a powerful flood from the rain. But why is everything swirling in a circle?
Unit 3 • Choices and Consequences • Part 1: Tangerine 97
portable: a moveable, temporary building
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