DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 227
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 5
When do they plan to talk to Miss Santos? (This afternoon, at 2:45 outside the teachers’
lounge)
Where does Kate want to go before they meet Miss Santos? (the computer room)
Why do you think she needs the computer room? (She wants to look something up.)
Now have the students read the last paragraph.
Why do you think the girls didn’t ask Ann to join? (They didn’t even remember she was
there.)
How do you think Ann feels? (Accept all logical answers.)
What do you think the piece of paper Ann has says? (Accept logical answers.)
After reading
Ask:
Do you think the girls are doing the right thing, going to Miss Santos?
3.
Let’s Answer! (page 173)
Have the students answer in their notebooks.
When they have finished, go over the answers with them.
Answer Key:
1. a, e
2. 1.b; 2.a; 3.e; 4.c; 5.d
3. a. talk to Miss Santos
b. meet outside the teacher’s lounge
4. No. They weren’t really talking to her. /She didn’t say anything.
5. Accept all logical answers.
4.
Let’s Write! (page 173)
Have the students open their notebooks and write their opinion.
Accept all logical answers.
5.
Let’s Act! (page 173)
Say and ask:
Remember the rap: the four girls don’t like to
Curriculum:
make new friends.
P: Students will react to content of
something read, seen, or heard.
Do you think they were nice to Ann in the
story? (Accept all logical answers. Ask them
to back up some of their answers with the text.)
What do you think you would do in the same situation: would you include her in the
conversation or ignore her like the girls did? (encourage the students to elaborate.)
Now in groups of 3-4, you are going to perform the situation with Ann from the story, but
you are going to change the outcome. You can decide to do what you want.
When they are ready, the different groups perform in front of the class.
When they have all finished, ask if anyone has changed their mind now about what they would do.
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