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• What is something difficult or challenging
• that you have done (3-5 sentences)

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• Answer the reason why you did this
• To test or improve yourself
• For excitement
• To feel more grown up
• To be accepted or respected by a group
• To compete against others
• To___________________________?

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• Class discussion-
• Record Three different responses from your group
  (complete sentences)
• How can doing something difficult change someone?

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Grownup versus ChildWhat Are Characteristics of
Each?List some adjectives/actions of each

• Grownup

• Child

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Through the Tunnel

• Read aloud (follow along as I read the selection)
• Look at page 1-8. Find where Jerry acts as a
  child and places Jerry acts as a grownup.
• Look at page 8-14. Find where Jerry acts as a
  child and places Jerry acts as a grownup.

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Answer The Literature Response

• Why does feeling like a failure make Jerry clown
  around in order to get attention?
• Why does Jerry continue his foolish behavior if
  it makes him feel ashamed?
• Why does Jerry nag and pester his mother to buy
  the goggles this minute?
• Why does Jerry grab the goggles away from his
  mother, as if she were going to claim them for
  herself?

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Answer The Literature Response

• Why does Jerry feel he no longer belongs on his
  mothers safe beach?
• ? Whey doesnt jerry ask his mother for
  permission to go back to his beach?
• What is nonchild-like about being persistent and
  controlling your impatience?
• What is nonchild-like about being persistent and
  controlling your impatience?

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Answer The Literature Response

• Why does Jerry think about the fact that the big
  boys might find his body blocking the tunnel?
• Why doesnt Jerry think about how his mother will
  feel if he drowns?

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