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• Share your work with a partner. Discuss your responses. How does knowing
the correct antecedent help you understand the story and the characters? Did you find it easy or difficult to identify the correct antecedent? Were there any contractions in the excerpt that were new to you? What were they? Record notes from your discussion.
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I think knowing the correct antecedents when I’m reading is important because .
Write a Short Argument
In my opinion, the most difficult thing about identifying the correct antecedent is .
After analyzing the author’s use of pronoun antecedents in the excerpt from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, you have enough information to write a short argument explaining why it’s important
to be able to identify the correct antecedent while reading. Cite one example from the text, and explain how misunderstanding the antecedent could impact your ability to fully understand the story. Before writing, read the model short argument provided. Try structuring your argument in the same way.
I had never seen the contraction before .
MODEL: SHORT ARGUMENT
Shmuel often talks about “us” and “we,” as in this sentence: “There were too many of us in the carriages for one thing.” It is important to understand that he is referring to the Jewish people who were rounded up by the Nazis. Bruno’s ignorance about who “us” and “we” are shows his complete misunderstanding of Shmuel and his situation.
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