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Please do not read this to the students.  This is a description for teachers, about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.\nBig Ideas and Key Understandings\nTrue friendship endures even when friends are far away.\nSynopsis\n“Danitra Brown Leaves Town” is a series of poems about two young city girls, Danitra and Zuri, who are best friends.  Danitra goes away to her aunt’s house for the summer.  Zuri is hurt and mad that Danitra is leaving her.  These poems tell a story about how the girls stayed in touch by writing letters to each other. They discovered that they could have fun apart from one another and still remain friends.\nRead entire main selection text, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.\nRe-read the main selection text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Vocabulary.\nDuring Teaching\nStudents read the entire main selection text independently.\nTeacher reads the main selection text aloud with students following along. (Depending on how complex the text is and the amount of support needed by students, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.)\nStudents and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions and returning to the text.  A variety of methods can be used to structure the reading and discussion (i.e.:  whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.)\nText Dependent Questions\nText Dependent Questions\nAnswers\nReread page 86. What does “surrender to summer” mean? (page 86)\n“Surrender to summer” means take advantage of everything summer offers.\nOn page 87, Zuri says, “Danitra talked a blue streak about her summer trip all week.” Explain the phrase “talked a blue streak.”\nTalked a blue steak means talking relentlessly about something.\nHow does Zuri feel about Danitra leaving for the summer? How do you know? (page 87)\nZuri is hurt mad about Danitra leaving.  She wouldn’t go to the station when Danitra called and she blurted “I have better things to do.”\nHow could Zuri tell she hurt Danitra’s feeling? (page 87)\nZuri could tell because the phone went silent.\nReread the first verse on page 88. Zuri explains that summer insisted on starting. In other words, it wouldn’t take no for an answer. Why did she think summer starting was a bad thing?\nZuri didn’t care if summer was starting.  Zuri was alone with nothing to do because Danitra, her best friend, was gone.\nNina and Zuri lived in the same neighborhood, so why hadn’t Zuri noticed her before? (page 88)\nZuri was too busy spending her time with Danitra.\nHow does the author let you know Zuri was worried when she received her first letter from Danitra? (page 89)\nThe author tells you that Zuri bit her lip as she ripped the letter open.\nDid Danitra seem angry with Zuri in her first letter? How do you know? (page 89)\nDanitra wasn’t angry because she wrote that she wished Zuri was with her.\nWhat did Danitra mean when she told Zuri, “Sleeping was hard with all the sparkling beauty hanging overhead”? (page 90)\nDanitra was amazed at the brightness of the stars in the country because in the city stars are not as visible.\nA simile compares two different things using like or as.  What is the simile on page 90? What two things are being compared?\n“I’ve never one so blue-black, like a thick overcoat all buttoned up with stars.”  The sky is being compared to an overcoat and the buttons of an overcoat are the stars in the sky.\nReread page 91. Explain, in your own words, what the author means by ","cbCaidS8y35dNZMb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidS8y35dNZMb","doc",87040,12,"English","# Teacher Instructions\n## Before Teaching\n## During Teaching\n## Text Dependent Questions\n## Vocabulary\n## Culminating Task","[{\"question\":\"What are the Big Ideas and Key Understandings for this lesson?\",\"answer\":\"True friendship endures even when friends are far away. 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