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Quick Conversation
• Read aloud your answers to the incident-response-reflection chart with a partner. Compare your ideas about the narrator’s reflection, using evidence from the text to support your ideas. Use words from the Language Resources: Adverbs chart in your discussion to help persuade your partner. Record notes from your discussion.
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What evidence supports your thinking?
Write a Short Argument
Write a short argument in which you explain what the narrator in the “The Scholarship Jacket” learned. Cite evidence from the story to support your argument about the narrator’s reflection. Use the model short argument as a guide for your writing.
I agree with your analysis, and I also think .
The part of the story that says suggests that .
I disagree with your analysis because .
ModEl: SHort arguMEnt
In the end, the narrator feels proud. She knew her grandfather was right in believing that the scholarship jacket should not have to be paid for. When she tells her grandfather the decision that the school made, she “stood up and faced him.” In my opinion, this shows that she was feeling confident and proud to share the news.
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