The Boy Who Didn

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The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring

• By Lucille Clifton
• Illustrated by Brinton Turkle

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An example of city wildlife

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Objectives

• You will
• recognize antonyms and synonyms,
• Recognize compound words
• Recognize base words and the suffix y and the
  prefix un-
• Practice using the spelling patterns ar and air
• Recognize the long u sound spelled u, u_e, _ue,
  _ew.

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Word Knowledge

• hollered whispered grinned frowned
• vacant empty bare
• streetlight playground tiptoe
• spiky cottony smelly silvery
• unbelievable undecorated untied uneaten
  unoccupied
• started apartments dark car air

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Word Knowledge

• Tony stopped and made believe his sneaker was
  untied to see what King was going to do.
• Well, come on, man, King whispered, and they
  started down the street.
• Just after the friends passed some apartments,
  they came to a vacant lot.
• An indigo car is a dark blue color.

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What do these words have in common?

• hollered whispered grinned frowned
• The words are antonyms. Whats an antonym?
• An antonym means opposite. With your partner,
  identify the antonyms
• Hollered/whispered, grinned/frowned
• Use each word in a sentence and come up with
  other examples of antonyms.
• Hot/cold, hard/soft, up/down, left/right,
  day/night, all/none.

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What is the same with these words?

• vacant empty bare
• These words are synonyms. Raise your hand if you
  can tell me what a synonym is.
• Synonyms are words that mean the same thing.
• What is the synonym to these words?
• Happy
• tired
• large
• end
• grow
• mature, develop
• sleepy
• joyful
• finish, complete

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What is the spelling pattern in the next set of
words?

• streetlight playground tiptoe
• The words are compound words.
• What words make up each compound word?
• street light
• play ground
• tip toe
• Do the two words help us understand the meaning
  of the word?

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Whats the secret pattern between these words?

• spiky cottony smelly silvery
• The suffix y is added to base words.
• Give a definition for each word and use the word
  in a sentence.
• Identify the part of speech the word becomes in a
  sentence.
• By adding the suffix y , the word becomes an
  adjective (a describing word).

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What do these words have in common?

• unbelievable undecorated untied uneaten
  unoccupied
• The prefix un- is added to words.
• What does the prefix un- mean?
• Un- means not.
• Give the base word and explain how the word
  changes when you add un-.
• Example the base word for unbelievable is
• believe.
• When you add un- the word means not true.

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What do these words have in common?

• started apartments dark car air
• These words are spelling words found in The Boy
  Who Didnt Believe in Spring.
• Lets review the spelling patterns for ar and air.

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Please read the sentences and find the antonyms

• Tony stopped and made believe his sneaker was
  untied to see what King was going to do.
• Well, come on, man, King whispered, and they
  started down the street.
• Just after the friends passed some apartments,
  they came to a vacant lot.
• stopped/started, untied/tied, whispered/shouted,
  down/up, after/before, friends/enemies,
  vacant/occupied

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Now, lets identify any synonyms or prefixes

• Tony stopped and made believe his sneaker was
  untied to see what King was going to do.
• Well, come on, man, King whispered, and they
  started down the street.
• Just after the friends passed some apartments,
  they came to a vacant lot.
• Synonyms stopped/discontinued, untied/undone,
  started/began, some/several, vacant/bare/empty
• Prefixes untied-not tied.

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Now, lets read the following sentence together

• An indigo car is a dark blue color.
• Identify the words that have the /ar/ sound
  spelled ar
• Car, dark

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Prior Knowledge

• What do you remember from the Read Aloud?
• Raise you hand if you can share with me what you
  notice about the first signs of spring.

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Background Information

• The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring is
  realistic fiction.
• Realistic fiction may include descriptions of
  actual places and things, and also situations
  that are made up but could happen.
• The author invents the characters, then involves
  them in solving a problem.

Realistic Fiction
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Background Information

• The author, Lucille Clifton, uses idiomatic
  spellings and phrases.
• Some of the spelling in the story was used to
  show natural speech and may differ from the
  dictionary spelling.
• bout for about
• comin for coming

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Preview and Prepare (Reading 2.6

• Let s read aloud the title, the author and
  illustrator.
• Now lets browse the first page or two of the
  story.
• Who are the main characters?
• Look at the illustrations in the selections.
• Make sure you make predictions about the text to
  help monitor your comprehension.
• Look for clues, problems, such as unfamiliar
  words
• Now lets look at the focus questions.
• What is city wildlife?
• What types of wildlife would you expect to find
  in a city?

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Student Observation

• Clues Problems Wonderings
• Can a person Weissmans How can you
• believe in Spring? find Spring?

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The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring
mound
crops
patch
vacant
Selection Vocabulary
decorated
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Crops

• One day after the teacher had been talking about
  birds that were blue and his Mama had started
  talking about crops coming up, King Shabazz
  decided he had just had enough.
• Now that spring has arrived, the farmer is busy
  planting his crops.

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Crops

• Dictionary crops
• Page 177
• Definition Plants grown for food or to sell to
  make money
• Sentence pg.145
• Antonym seeds
• Synonym harvest, produce
• Part of Speech Noun

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decorated

• They passed the Church of the Solid Rock with
  high windows all decorated and pretty.
• The wedding reception hall looked lovely,
  decorated with twinkling lights and pretty
  flowers.

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Decorated Dictionary

• Page 193
• Definition Made beautiful by adding fancy things
  and frills
• Sentence pg. 149
• Antonym common, plain
• Synonym detailed, garnish
• Part of Speech Adjective

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vacant

• Just after they passed some apartments King
  Shabazz and Tony Polito came to a vacant lot.
• The warehouse looked as though it had been vacant
  for years.

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vacant Dictionary

• Page 832
• Empty, abandoned
• Verb
• Antonym crowded
• Synonym empty, abandoned

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mound

• The wheels were gone and so were the doors, but
  it was dark red and sitting high on a dirt mound
  in the middle of the lot.
• The catcher walked toward the pitchers mound, a
  slightly raised area of ground on a baseball
  field. He wanted to talk to the pitcher about
  the next batter.

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Mound Dictionary

• Page 482
• Definition Small hill or pile of dirt,rocks, or
  other material
• Sentence pg.150
• Antonym flat, mountain
• Synonym knoll, drift
• Part of Speech Noun

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patch

• He looked down and saw a patch of little yellow
  pointy flowers, growing in the middle of short
  spiky green leaves.
• A large empty patch stood out from the full green
  lawn.

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Patch Dictionary

• Page 543
• An area different from what is around it
• Noun
• Antonym whole
• Synonym part, spotty

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Investigating Concepts Beyond the Text

• What do you know already about city wildlife?
  During the next six weeks, we read stories about
  city wildlife.
• Does anyone have any further questions or points
  to share up to this point?

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Word Analysis

• Spelling This week, we will spell words wit the
  /ar/ sound.
• started apartments dark car air
• Lets take our spelling pretest.
• Vocabulary Skill Words (antonyms)
• whispered shouted slowly mound vacant

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English Language ConventionsQuote Marks Eng.
Lang. Conv. 1.0, 1.4)

• Quotation marks let the reader know that
  something is being said.
• A comma sets of the speakers words from the rest
  of the sentence.
• If the sentence ends with the quotation, the
  punctuation goes inside the closing quotation
  mark.
• Im hungry! Shelly said.
• Are you tired? Michael asked.
• Brian said, Its time to go to school.
• The name of a short story, poem, song or book
  chapter should be in quotes.

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Writing Process StrategiesGetting Ideas
Responding to Fiction (writing 1.1, 1.4)

• I like the character King Shabazz in the story
  The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring.
• I could write a response to fiction explaining
  why.
• What plots, settings, and ideas could you use to
  write responses to fiction?
• Lets make a list on the board.

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Tip for Responding to fiction Prewriting

• Make a plan
• Character qualities they have in the story.
  Make a web. Look for information in the story to
  support each idea in the web.
• Example Aunt Flossies Hats
• Aunt Flossie
• 1.Kind feeds tea and cookies, lets try on hats,
  tells stories
• 2. Old horses pulled, fire engines
• 3. Patient doesnt yell
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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Drafting

• Get your thoughts on paper
• Use each quality in a separate paragraph.
• Example
• I wish I had an aunt like Flossie. She
  seems very kind. She gives her nieces cookies
  and tea when they come to visit. She lets them
  try on her hats. She tells them stories about
  each hat.
• Aunt Flossie must be kind of old. She is a
  great-great aunt. She remembers when horses
  pulled fire engines.
• I think Aunt Flossie is patient. When the
  girls try on her very best Sunday hat, she starts
  to tell the story. The girls keep interrupting
  Aunt Flossie doesnt yell at them. She lets them
  help her tell the story.

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Revising, Editing/Proofreading, publishing

• Revising Be sure it makes sense
• Organization do your supporting sentences stay
  on topic?
• Sentence Fluency Did you use some long and some
  short sentences?
• Editing/Proofreading Look closely at the
  details.
• 1. Indent each paragraph.
• 2. Make sure you have used capital letters
  correctly.
• 3. check your response for spelling mistakes.
• Publishing Get ready to share your response to
  fiction. Make a clean copy. Does it look like
  something you would want to read? Design a cover
  for your story. Write your response on the front
  inside page. Write a title.

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The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring (first
reading-orally pgs. 114-123) Listen/Speak 1.1,1.2

• When I read this story I will
• Predict what the story might be about
• What Questions come to mind?
• What images pop into my
• mind? (Visualize)
• Summarize story in own words

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Discussing Strategy UseTG 122

• How did you clarify confusing passages?
• What questions did you ask yourself as you read
  the story?
• Did you make predictions as you read the story?
  What were they?
• What did you visualize as you read the story?

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Discussing the Selection

• Lets use handing off to answer these questions
• Why didnt King believe in spring?
• What did King and Tony do to find spring?
• What signs of spring did they find?
• What types of wildlife are common in cities?
• Write your answers in your response journal

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Concept/Question Board TE p. 125B

• Lets use the Concept/Question board to
• Post questions we have about the story that have
  not been answered yet.
• Post articles about city wildlife.
• Answer our story focus question.

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Word Analysis ELC 1.8, Reading 1.4

• Spelling
• Here is Sound/Spelling card 27 /ar/.
• Repeat after me armadillo. Sort your spelling
  words by ar, are, air, or ear spellings.
• Vocabulary Antonyms
• whispered
• Antonyms are two words with opposite meanings.
• The antonym for whispered is
• Shouted, screamed, yelled, hollered

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Antonyms

• Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings.
• Hot and cold are antonyms.
• Happy and sad are antonyms.
• Push and pull are antonyms.

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English Language Conventions E.L.C., 1.5

• Review Quotation Marks.
• When are quotation marks used?
• Quotation marks are used when someone speaks, for
  short story, poem and song titles and chapters in
  a book.
• Name two or more animals that live in the city.
• Imagine what animals would say to each other
  about how humans treat them.
• What would they say? Lets write their
  conversation on the board.
• Find one declarative (.), one interrogative (?),
  and one exclamatory (!) quotation in The Boy Who
  Didnt Believe in Spring.

Work with a partner...
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Phonics and FluencyReview the long u sound
spelled u, u_e, _ue, _ew

• Here is the Sound/Spelling Card 36, the long u
  sound.
• unit used menu Utah
• cue human humid January
• puny fuel pupil unicorn
• mew few unify universe
• Can you identify the letters that make the long u
  sound?
• My favorite month is January.
• I ate a few cookies after dinner.
• He used to sit with his friend Tony Polito on the
  bottom step when the days started getting longer
  and warmer and talk about it

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The Boy Who Didnt Believe in SpringSecond Read

• Comprehension Skills Classify and Categorize
• What does classifying and categorizing mean?
• It is sometimes useful to put story information
  into sections or categorizes.
• Putting things that are alike together in a group
  will help you understand and learn information.
• As you read the story, try to classify and
  categorize different things.

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Classify and Categorize
Signs of Spring People in the Story Things in King and Tonys Neighborhood Things King Does Things King and Tony Smell

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Checking Comprehension (reading 2.3)

• What does this story have to do with city
  wildlife?
• Tony and King find plants beginning to grow and a
  birds blue eggs in the car in a vacant lot.
• What do Tony and King realize when they find the
  flowers and the birds eggs?
• They realize that spring has really arrived.
• How do you think they feel about their discovery?
• They feel happy and amazed at finding signs of
  spring in the city.

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Interviewing

• In an interview, you ask another person questions
  to get information about a subject or to find out
  what she or he thinks or feels about something.
• In an interview, a person is the source.
• Here are the rules of doing an interview
• Always ask permission to interview a person.
• Ask Who? What? Where? Why? And How? Questions.
• Write down your questions in the order you want
  to ask them.
• Speak clearly and politely during an interview.
• Take notes as the person answers the questions.
• Thank the person after the interview.

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Word Analysis

• Spelling
• bare bear
• Listen to the /air/ sounds in bare and bear
• Now, complete Spelling and Vocabulary Skills
• Vocabulary
• mound
• hole, indentation, and valley are antonyms to
  mound
• Knowing the meaning of the antonyms, what is the
  meaning of the word mound.
• hill, bump, pile
• Work with your partner to think of some more
  antonyms for the word mound.
• Flat land, valley, dip

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English Language Conventions

• Where does the quotation marks go for the
  following sentences?
• Fragrant flowers are flourishing in the field,
  Fred said gratefully.
• Rachel Carson said We need to protect the natural
  world.

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English Language Conventions TG. p. 125H

• Where does the quotation marks go for the
  following sentences?
• When will the cardinal eggs hatch? asked Ellen.
• That cardinal is bright red! Gasped Miguel.
• Note The end punctuation goes inside the closing
  quotation mark.
• Assignment Write a brief dialogue among animals
  about life in the city.

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Writing Process Strategies Drafting Responding
to Fiction

• Although responding to fiction means giving
  opinions, these opinions need to be supported
  with examples from the writing.
• Time order words are words that show the
  transition of events.
• Before, after, first, next, later, last, until,
  then, finally
• Time order words are used to help readers follow
  actions.

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Be a Sequence Detective!
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Sequence is the order in which events happen.
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Certain words can be sequence clues.
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Time-Order Words first next then finally
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Time-Order Expression in the morning after
that later that day two weeks later
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Other Time Words yesterday Saturday April winter
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Now be a sequence detective. See if you can spot
the clue words in the following story.
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Last Tuesday I met my new friend Mickey. We
were both in a ball game at recess. I told him
he had made a good catch during the game. Later
that day we played in a softball game. We were
on the same team and we won!
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Last Tuesday I met my new friend Mickey. We
were both in a ball game at recess. I told him
he had made a good catch during the game. Later
that day we played in a softball game. We were
on the same team and we won!
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After the game, we traded some baseball cards,
and then he said he wanted to ask me something.
After he finished talking, we walked to the bus
stop.
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After the game, we traded some baseball cards,
and then he said he wanted to ask me something.
After he finished talking, we walked to the bus
stop.
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The next morning, I was able to answer his
question. My parents said that I would go to his
familys apartment to have dinner with him on his
birthday, December 6.
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The next morning, I was able to answer his
question. My parents said that I would go to his
familys apartment to have dinner with him on his
birthday, December 6.
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Developing Oral Language

• unit used menu Utah
• cue human humid January
• puny fuel pupil unicorn
• mew few unify universe
• A is a mammal.
• Human
• is a cold month.
• January
• I need to run my gold car.
• fuel

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Developing Oral Language

• unit used menu Utah
• cue human humid January
• puny fuel pupil unicorn
• mew few unify universe
• The state of is very pretty.
• Utah
• Our Open Court is called City Wildlife.
• unit
• The word means small.
• puny

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Dictation

• line 1 ________ ________ ________
• line 2 ________ ________ ________
• Challenge Word ___________________
• Sentence_________________________
• _________________________________
• _________________________________

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Literary Elements Characterization

• Characterization is the way that a writer shows
  what the characters in his or her story are like.
  
• Writers do this by telling what the characters
  do, say, think, and feel.
• Lets complete the table

Character What I Know About Him Evidence
King Shabazz
Tony Polito
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Word Analysis

• Spelling
• Dark
• Knowing the spelling of dark can help us know
  that the rhyming word park is spelled the same
  way.
• Vocabulary
• Vacant
• Empty, clear, and blank are synonyms of vacant.
• What are the antonyms for vacant?
• full, loaded, crowded
• What is the definition of vacant , now that we
  know its antonyms and synonyms?
• empty space, clear area

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English Language Conventions listen/Speak 1.1
With your group...

• Remembering what we hear
• Being able to recall a story is an important
  listening skill.
• If we listen well the first time, we wont have
  to get the information again.
• Another good listening skill is repeating and
  paraphrasing what we hear in our own words. This
  helps us share information with others. We can
  give the same message using our own words.
• In small groups, paraphrase the important points
  and details of the story.
• Students will decide on a group leader.
• The group leader will record the important
  points.
• As a class, we will call on the group leader to
  share their information with the class.

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Writing Process Strategies Revising (Writing
1.1, 1.4)

• When the supporting sentences stray from the
  topic of the paragraph, readers lose interest.
• When statements about a character, setting, idea,
  or plot are not supported with details from the
  story, it makes the statements hard to believe.
• Misspelling names of people and places can be
  distracting and it makes it seem like you did not
  read the story carefully.
• Revise your drafts using time order words.

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English Language Conventions Review

• Remember
• Quotation marks are used to let the reader know
  that something is being said.
• A comma sets off the speakers words from the
  rest of the sentence.
• The ending punctuation goes inside the closing
  quotation mark.
• Im hungry! Shelly said.
• Are you tired? Michael asked.
• Brian said, Its time to go to school.
• The name of a short story, poem, song, or book
  chapter should also be in quotation marks.

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