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Interacting in Meaningful ways: Academic Collaboration
Learning Targets
• Ask and answer questions about a narrative poem in collaborative conversations, demonstrating active listening, and drawing upon an expanding pool of language resources for discussing literature.
• Express and support opinions of a narrative poem in conversation.
• Explain how different words create different effects for the reader.
Turn to your partner or small group to discuss each question about “The Raven.” After you have discussed a question, write notes about your answer before going on to the next question.
ACtIVItY 1.4
1. Where is the narrator and why is he reading? What disturbs him? Summarize the poem’s plot.
2. Who is Lenore and what is her relationship to the narrator? What can we infer has happened to Lenore?
The narrator
is disturbed by .
I think Lenore is and we can infer that she .
3. Read lines 25–30. What is the mood of this stanza? What specific words and phrases create this mood for the reader?
4. What details in these stanzas suggest that the narrator is becoming more and more afraid?
Based on the words , the mood in lines 25–30 is .
The details that show he is afraid are .
Asking Questions
Narrative poems tell a story with distinct plot events. With your partner or small group, read aloud the last two stanzas from this excerpt of “The Raven.” Discuss what questions you have about these stanzas. Write one question to share with the whole class.
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