KNOTS IN MY YOYO STRINGS LESSON 2 FIRST

KNOTS IN MY YO-YO STRINGS LESSON 2 FIRST READ

THINK THROUGH THE TEXT WHY IS TEAMMWORK IMPORTANT?

THINK THROUGH THE TEXT � 1. How does the paragraph that tells about the histories of the two football teams help you understand the importance of the game? � 2. What text evidence explains why the Norristown fans “grimly awaited the inevitable? ” � 3. Why do you think the author uses the word little to describe the number of inches the team had to run the ball?

THINK THROUGH THE TEXT � 4. Why do you think the author doesn’t know why he decides to write? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. � 5. Why does the author start his poem at the end of the football game? � 6. Why does the author say that after writing the poem, the game was finally over?

THINK THROUGH THE TEXT � 7. How does Jerry Spinelli introduce the idea of how he became a writer? � 8. What trait does Jerry Spinelli show on this page? What text evidence supports your answer?

THINK THROUGH THE TEXT � 9. What text evidence shows that the culprit of the chicken theft knows what he or she did was wrong? � 10. Why does the author refer to his children as “the six little angels” if one of them is the “culprit”? � 11. How does this section contribute to the idea that having children helped the author’s writing? � 12. How does the author’s description of his job in the last paragraph tell us how he feels about it?

THINK THROUGH THE TEXT � 13. What about the story of the chicken thief helps the author write his first published book? What evidence in the text supports your answer? � 14. How does repeating the question the boy asked the author fit into the structure of this selection? � 15. What does the author mean when he says answering the boy’s question would take too much time?