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The document provides instructions for a group work activity on analyzing a story. It tells the group to present their ideas, reorganize the story details, answer all the discussion questions, and submit their notes. It then lists multiple questions for the group to discuss related to what they learned, the message, characters, feelings and opinions on the story.
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- 2. GROUP WORK • Present your ideas to your group • Reorganize the story • Cover all the questions • Hand in a copy of your notes once the meeting is over
- 3. Questions to discuss • Did you learn anything from this story? If you did, what was it? • What is the message of this story? Do you agree or disagree with it? • Was there something you didn’t understand about it? What was that? • What did you like best about the reader? Why? • What did you like least about the reader? Why? • Who was your favorite character? Why? • Who was your least favorite character? Why? • Did anything that happened remind you of something that has occurred in your own life or that you have seen occur to others?
- 4. Questions to discuss • If you had a chance to ask a character a question, what would it be? • If you had a chance to ask the writer a question, what would it be? • What were you thinking as you finished reading the story? • Would you recommend it to a friend? Explain your reasons. • If you were writing the screenplay for this movie, would you have changed the ending? Explain your answer. • What feelings did you share with any of the characters? • Did any of the characters make you angry/happy/sad? Tell us why. • Did you come to respect any of the characters? Who was it and why did you come to respect that character? • What comment is the author trying to make about the culture of the characters in this story?