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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\nDon’t allow the opinions of others to sway you from following your heart’s unique interests.\nSynopsis\nAs a child, the author’s father was fascinated by rocks. This interest consumed the young boy as he collected them in all of his spare time. People told him that he had rocks in his pockets and in his head. But he never allowed their criticism to detour him. Year after year, he continued building and displaying his collection. Even after the Great Depression forced him to sell his business and home, his rock fixation was steadfast. When no work was available, he would travel to the science museum and compare their collection with his own. This led to a job offer because the director of the museum knew a man with “rocks in his head” was just what they needed.\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\nEvidence-based Answers\nReread the first paragraph on page 66. Why did people tell the author’s father that he had rocks in his pockets and rocks in his head?\n“When he wasn’t doing chores at home or learning at school, he (the author’s father) would walk along stone walls and around old quarries, looking for rocks.”\nAn idiom is an expression whose meaning is not predictable based on the literal meaning of the words included in the phrase. For example, if someone tells you that you have ants in your pants, they don’t literally mean that insects are crawling around in your pants. Instead, they are mean that you are not sitting still. Find an idiom on page 66, and explain why it is an idiom.\n“People said he had rocks in his pockets and in his head.” “Rocks in his head” is an idiom because a man can’t literally have rocks in his head.\nIn the last paragraph on page 66, the author mentions that her dad usually forgets to lock the cash drawer in his desk. What does this say about the character of her father? Find another example on this page that illustrates her father’s character.\nThis statement gives the reader a clue about her father’s character. “Forgets to lock the cash drawer” lets the reader know that he is not a greedy man. Earlier on that same page, the reader gets another glimpse into the author’s father’s character when he responds “probably not”. This shows that he doesn’t get upset by what people say.\nLook at the illustration on page 67. What is the author’s father doing? Find evidence in the text to support your answer.\nPage 67 says, “Then, one by one, he placed his rocks and minerals on the shelves.”\nLabel means, “to attach an identifying or descriptive marker to an object.” Why did the author’s father carefully label each rock? 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