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aCTiViTY 1.7
interacting in Meaningful Ways: Writing an expository analysis
Learning Targets
• Exchange information and ideas with a peer to deepen understanding of a text. PI.7.1
• Write a short informational text evaluating an author’s use of language. PI.7.10, PI.7.7, PI.7.8
Review your annotations and notes on the excerpt from Tangerine and use them to complete the graphic organizer.
Language
Meaning
Effectiveness
What language is used in the story?
What do the words and phrases mean?
What was effective about this language?
Quick Conversation
Share your work with your partner. Compare your ideas about the language used, its meaning, and its effectiveness.
Next, read aloud the first two sentences of paragraph 13 of the story:
Joey and I dug our heels into the mud about halfway down toward the bottom of the hole. We pulled and grabbed at kids as they made their way up the slippery incline to the top.
Discuss the sentences. What verbs and verb phrases does it use? What sensory language does it use? Record notes from your discussion.
The effect of the verb phrase is .
I think is effective at describing the action in the scene because .
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The author uses the sensory language , which means .
What evidence supports your thinking?
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