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“The Adventures of Lemon Brown” Guided Reading QuestionsPage 9P1: What is the independent clause is the following sentence: “His father’s voice came to him again, first reading the letter the principal had sent to the house, then lecturing endlessly about his poor efforts in math.”Answer: P2: Use context clues to complete the father’s thought in the following sentences: “I had to leave school when I was thirteen...that’s a year younger than you are now. If I’d had half the chances that you have, I’d…”Possible Answer: P4: What does “hit those books” mean?Answer: P6: what figurative language is represented in the following sentence: “Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the parked cars.Answer: Page 10P6 (top of page; continued from page 9): What type of sentence is “Some of the guys had held an impromptu checker tournament there the week before, and Greg had noticed that the door, once boarded over, had been slightly ajar”?Answer: P1 (First full paragraph on page 10): What does “another flash of lightening changed the night to day” and “graffiti-scarred building” mean?Answer: P4: Identify the coordinating conjunction in the following sentence: “He listened carefully, but it was gone. What type of sentence is this?Answer: What is happening to Greg in the following sentence: “His stomach tightened as he held himself still and listened intently.Answer: What does “sudden brilliance” imply (suggest) about the lightening?Answer: Page 11:Identify and justify this sentence type: "He continued listening, but heard nothing and thought that it might have just been rats." (Line 2)Response: Identify and justify this sentence type: "The person who called himself Lemon Brown peered forward, and Greg could see him clearly." (Middle to the page)Response: What do you learn about Lemon Brown based on his own words? What do you learn based on the narrator's description? (The 1st indented paragraph and part of the 2nd indented paragraph) Possible Response: How does the tension in the story lessen when Greg sees Lemon Brown? (The last part of the larger paragraph at the bottom of the page. "He had seen the man before, ..."Possible Response: Page 12:Where does a comma belong when you have a dependent clause before the independent clause in a complex sentence? Prove it in the text from the short story. Response: Locate an example of a compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence from the text.Response: What do you learn about Lemon Brown through this dialogue? Possible Response: What does this dialogue reveal about Brown's feelings both toward his son and Greg? (Response is located at the bottom half of the page. "I used to have a knotty-headed boy just like you."...Possible Response: ................
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