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ACTIVITY 2.4
Interact in Meaningful Ways: Academic Collaboration
Learning Targets
• Ask and answer questions about an essay in collaborative conversations. • Express and support opinions of an essay in conversation.
Turn to your partner or small group to discuss each question about “I’ve got a few pet peeves about sea creatures.” After you have discussed a question, write notes about your answer before going on to the next question.
1. What are the author’s basic pet peeves with “sea creatures” (pet turtles and fish)?
2. In paragraph 2, how does the author use repetition and juxtaposition of ideas to create a comic effect?
The author repeats the phrase .
The author finds it annoying that pet turtles and fish .
3. How is the author’s tone toward his and his daughter’s pets irreverent?
4. In paragraph 7, how does the author combine a simile and juxtaposition of ideas to create humor?
The author’s tone is irreverent in that .
asking Questions
The jokes and funny lines in “I’ve got a few pet peeves about sea creatures” are almost nonstop. So it’s hard to appreciate them all. What jokes or lines in the essay did you not understand or find funny? Write one question about this joke or line to share with the whole class.
I think it’s funny when the author compares .
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