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Middle School-Social Studies

Student Script
Student Teacher #4

Say: Please highlight any word or idea that you do not understand.

Read:

     And so we have come to something else again, to children who do no understand what it means to go to their rooms because they have never had a room, to men and women whose fantasy is a wall they can paint a color of their own choosing, to old people reduced to sitting on molded plastic chairs, their skin blue-white in the lights of a bus station, who pull pictures of houses out of their bags. Homes have stopped being homes. Now they are real estate.

Ask: Who has Picture in Your Mind Card #4?
Please tell us what you are visualizing in your imagination.
Ask: Who has Clarifying Questions Card #4? Please ask some clarifying questions.

Suggested Clarifying Question:

What does the author mean by saying: "Homes have stopped being homes. Now they are real estate."?
Ask: Does anyone else have a clarifying question?
Ask: Who has Teacher-like Questions Card #4?
Please ask two teacher-like questions.

Suggested Teacher-like Questions:

  1. To review, who is Ann?
  2. Can you describe how Ann might look?
  3. How do you know?
  4. Why would painting a room be a fantasy?
Ask: Does anyone else have a teacher-like question?
Ask: Who has Summary Card #4? Please summarize this paragraph.

Suggested summary:

This paragraph is about what it means to be homeless and says that today homes are not personal places, they are just places to be bought and sold.
Ask: Who has Prediction Card #4? Please make a prediction.

Suggested prediction:

The author is going to go into more deail about what it is like to be a homeless person.
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