ACTIVITY 3.4
Interacting in Meaningful Ways:
Academic Collaboration
Learning Targets
• Ask and answer questions about a short story.
• Adapt language to context and audience,
Turn to your partner or small group to discuss each question about the excerpt from "Sweat." After
you have discussed a question, write notes about your answer before going on to the next question.
1. What is the central ideo of this excerpt from
"Sweat," and what detail from the text
itbustrotes It?
2. What explicit text evidence implies that Delia
allows Sykes to be bitten by the snake?
The text evidence implying that
Delia allows Sykes to be bitten
by the snake is
The central idea of this excerpt
from "Sweat" is
To
co xort
from "sweat is
3. How does Delio respond to Sykes's rattlesnake bite
at the climax of the story?
4. Explain the meaning of the line "Long before this
Sykes' ability to think had been fottened down to
primitive instinct and he leaped-onto the bed."
Delia responds to Syker's
rattlesnake bite by
The line means
300 Spring Hoord English Language Development Grade 11

in june, we will have been married for eighteen months. (i am assuming this is what you want? the sentence, as you have presented it, is grammatically incorrect--   you want it corrected, yes? )

identify the subordinate clause in each of the following sentences. tell whether each clause is used as an adjective, an adverb, or a noun.

11.) emily dickinson, who was born in 1830in amherst, massachusetts, was a great american poet.

12.) she appeared to lead a fairly normal life until she became a recluse in her family's home.

13.) there she wrote poems that literary critics now call "great american poetry".

14.) unfortunately, only a few of dickinson's poems were published while she was alive.

15.) after she died in 1886, her other poems were published.

16.) i think everyone should reaad at least some of dickonson's poetry.

17.) dickinson is a poet whose work i now read often.

18.) the poems i have just finished reading are "a narrow fellow in the grass" and "apparently with no surprise"

19.) the rythyms of dickonson's poems are best appreciated when you read the poems aloud.

20.) whatever i read by emily dickonson surprises amd inspires me.

what excerpt?

explanation: