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