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interact in Meaningful Ways: Academic Collaboration
Learning Targets
• Ask and answer questions about an article in collaborative conversations, demonstrating active listening, and drawing upon an expanding pool of language resources for discussing literature.
• Express and support opinions of an article in conversation and by providing textual evidence. • Express and support inferences and conclusions drawn from the text.
Turn to your partner or small group to discuss each question about “Cellphones and driving: As dangerous as we think?” After you have discussed a question, write notes about your answer before going on to the next question.
ACtiVitY 3.4
1. What argument does the article explore?
2. What side of the argument does the writer seem to agree with?
The writer seems to think that .
The article explores the argument over .
3. What evidence in the article was most convincing to you?
4. What is your answer to the question in the title of the article? Why?
To me, the most convincing evidence is .
In my opinion, cellphones are because .
asking Questions
Articles exploring arguments often include counterarguments. With your partner or small group, read aloud paragraphs 15–16. Discuss what questions you have about the counterarguments. Write one question to share with the whole class.
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