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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\nAvoiding your debts can lead to trouble.\nSynopsis\nIn this tall tale story, deadbeat Shorty Long had to avoid the people to whom he owed money.  He tried to trick Widow Macrae out of $4.50, but actually created more problems for himself.\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\nWhy is this story called, “Four Dollars and Fifty Cents?” (Pgs. 58-69)\nThe title sums up the most important event; Shorty Long owes $4.50 to Widow Macrae from the very beginning of the story to the very end.\nReread page 58. Widow Macrae says, “He owes me four dollars and fifty cents.”  Owes means to have to pay back a debt.  How does the reader know Shorty Long will probably not pay back the money he owes?\nShorty Long is described as a deadbeat cowboy who owed everybody money.  Big Oscar, the blacksmith, says, “He just hates to pay for anything he thinks he can get free.”\nA coffin is an oblong box used to bury a corpse or dead person.  Why did the Circle K boys decide to build a coffin for Shorty? (Pg. 59)\nThey built a coffin so Shorty could pretend to be dead and trick Widow Macrae into thinking she would have to go away without her $4.50.\nWhy would the author use the simile on page 60 to describe Shorty in the coffin?  Simile:  “Shorty looked deader ‘n a Christmas tree in August.”\nA Christmas tree that is not growing in the ground or watered would not likely be alive in August.   Shorty lay as still as a dead tree in the coffin to make Widow Macrae think he was dead from a bronco accident.\nThe text says, “But she still wasn’t sold, although she kept her suspicions to herself.”  What did Widow Macrae do on pages 60-62 to show she suspected Shorty Long was not dead?\nShe loaded Shorty and the coffin onto her buckboard to give him a decent burial, but the lid was not nailed down; she took him to a freshly dug grave on Boot Hill and told him, “If you ain’t moved by morning, into the ground you go!”\nWhat information on page 64 does the author give about what makes the gang outlaws?\nThe men were bragging about robbing a train that afternoon and they were at Boot Hill to divide the loot in a graveyard where they did not think they would be seen.\nReread page 67. What does it mean when the author writes, “He don’t need a sniffer where he’s going.”\nThe author is saying Shorty is dead and he won’t be using his long nose to smell if he’s buried in the ground.\nWhy do the outlaws leave the money behind after they “…shot out of that graveyard faster than fireworks!”? 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