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Name: Date: 22 / 6 / 2020

Grade 6
Agenda

Treasure in the Attic

YOUR TURN
Read scene 3 in the RWW pages 268-269 to answer the following. Note that
handwritten answers are not accepted. Your answers should be typed on this
word document and submitted on the assigned date.

Scene 3:

 Genre
 What is the setting of scene 3 ?
Liz’s Yard

 List three text features that tell you that "Treasure in the Attic" is
a play.
Scenes,dialogue,and stage directions

 Which text feature tells you what Liz did when she received the
envelope from Mr. Snow?
Stage directions
 Homophones

 Read the first piece of Emma’s dialogue on p. 268.

Which word from the article is a homophone for the word defined below:
to perceive or become aware of by the ear
Realize

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 Theme

 Why do you expect are the note and earrings in a safe in Mr.
Snow’s safe?

 Summarizing

 Identify key details and use them to summarize how the two
cousins discovered what happened to the earrings.

Detail 1: Liz and Emma were searching through old stuff because Liz
wanted a bike.
Detail 2: They found a pair of pearl earrings.Also , they found a diary
and there was a mystery.
Detail 3: They went to Mr.Snow to know about Anna. After few days
Snow gave them the earrings,and they made a decision to keep the
earrings.
Summary: Liz and Emma were searching through old stuff because Liz
wanted a bike. They found a pair of pearl earrings.Also , they found a
diary and there was a mystery, and mr. snow tried to help, they knew that
grandma kept them for her. She wanted to sell them but she changed her
mind and kept them because they family heirlooms.

 Homophones

 What is a homophone for the word seen on page 268?

Scene
 What is the meaning of the word in the text?
a sequence of continuous action in a play, film, opera, or book.
 Theme

 In the end, what did Liz decide to do with the earrings .

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 SHE DECIDED TO KEEP THEM.

 Has she changed? If yes, how has she changed?

Yes she changed because at first she wanted to sell anything she find but
at the end she didn’t sell the earrings because they were family heirlooms.

 Homophones

Read the second piece of Liz’s dialogue on p. 269.

 Which word is a homophone?

New

 What word can it be confused with?

Knew

 What context clues might help someone listening to the play know
which word is correct?
Get my new bike

 What is the antonym for the correct word as it is used in the play.
old
 Vocabulary

What does the vocabulary word indecision mean? Write its meaning , the
context clues that help you figure out its meaning and its part of speech.
For more help, you can refer to your RWW page 265.

• Meaning: inability to make a choice.

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 • Context Clues: what to wear make me late
 Part of Speech: noun

 Genre

 What text feature tells you Liz’s state of mind when the yard sale
customer wanted to buy the earrings?
Stage directions

 What was her state of mind ?

She was seized by indecision.

 What does this tell you about how she’s feeling?

The author wrote (to herself)

 Theme
 In the end, how did Liz respond to the yard sale customer?
She said the pearl earrings are not for sale.

 Summarizing
 Identify key details and use them to summarize the events that led
Liz to keep the earrings.
Detail 1: mr snow gave them the earrings.
Detail 2: grandma gave the earrings to them and it was so kind from
Detail 3: the earrings were family heirlooms.
Summary:Liz decided not to sell them because they were old but gold.

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  Homophones
 Read the first piece of Emma’s dialogue on p. 269.
Which word from the article is a homophone for the word defined below:
a negative used to express refusal ,as in response to a question or request
Know

 Theme

 When did Liz make a hard decision?

When she decided to sell the earrings.

 What caused Liz to make this hard decision?

She wanted to buy a bike.

 Theme
 Did Liz change her decision on buying the new bike? Cite text
evidence.
Yes, since she said to the yard sale customer sorry ma’am ,they’re not for
the sale.

 How did Liz resolve the conflict in the end?

She solved it when Emma reminded her that they are family heirlooms.

 Vocabulary

What does the vocabulary word extensive mean? Write its meaning and
the context clues that help you figure out its meaning. For more help, you
can refer to your RWW page 265.

• Meaning: great in amount and size.

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 • Context Clues: map
 Part of Speech: adjective

 Theme
Below is the graphic organizer about the theme of the play in your RWW
page 271. As mentioned before, the first three boxes are already filled by
details based on what we covered in the previous sessions.
Now it’s YOUR TURN. First, list more details based on what you read in
scene 3. Then determine the theme of the play.

Details
The reason Liz seeks items to sell is that she wants to buy a bike.

In her journal, Great-Grandma writes about her decision to give her earrings to a friend
in need.

The two cousins went to Snow’s store to ask if he is related to Anna Snow and knows
their great-grandma ,but he wasn’t able to remember her.

Mr. snow gave them the earrings but they made a decision to keep them.

Theme of the play

It can be a hard decision to keep something but preserving the family history is
rewarding.

“Lucy has multitude of homework and she has extensive math test, let’s do
something to help her,”Hiram suggested. Jared said”We should work tentatively as a
benefactor to help Lucy.” Lucy added,”She always has empathy to share us in our
decisions, it will be like an endeavor.”

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