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interacting in Meaningful Ways: academic Collaboration
Learning Targets
• Ask and answer relevant questions about a text in a collaborative conversation, demonstrating active listening. PI.7.1, PI.7.5
• Express and support opinions about a story in a conversation. PI.7.3
Turn to your partner or small group to discuss each question about the excerpt from Tangerine. After you have discussed a question, write notes about your answer before going on to the next question.
aCTiViTY 1.4
1. What is the specific setting of this story? How can you tell? ccss.RL.7.1
Based on the students and the teachers, I think the setting is a school.
3. How did the kids start acting in response to the sinkhole? How do you know? ccss.RL.7.2
The text evidence that the students were screaming and pushing each other suggests that the kids were acting terrified.
Asking Questions
2. What is happening to the portable buildings? Give textual evidence. ccss.RL.7.1
The text evidence that the portables were breaking apart and moving shows that they were being swallowed by the sinkhole.
4. What is the narrator’s role in the rescue of the students? Exactly what is he doing? ccss.RL.7.3
Based on the narrator’s quick response to the emergency, I think the narrator’s role is to organize and inspire others to help with the rescue.
Based on ,I think the setting is .
The text evidence shows that .
The text evidence suggests that the kids .
Based on , I think the narrator’s role is .
Authors often use imagery and sensory language to describe what is happening rather than tell the reader directly. With your partner or small group, read aloud the first paragraph of the excerpt from Tangerine. Discuss what questions you have about what is happening in this paragraph. Write one question to share with the whole class.
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