1. By Don Abramson and Robert Kausal
Scene Two
By Don Abramson and Robert Kausal

2. Summary
Ms. Keeler’s students are working on a skit for the Founder’s Day talent show. Kerry and Mitch can’t agree on the scenes should be written and they argue. The other students step in to help solve the problem. The group cooperates and a skit gets written.

3. Study Skills Genre: Drama / Plays
Comprehension Skill: Draw Conclusions
Comprehension Strategy: Questioning
Comprehension Review Skill: Cause and Effect
Vocabulary: Affixes: Prefixes and Word Structure

4. Genre: Drama/Plays
Drama/plays are stories written in such a way that it can be acted out for an audience. It is usually structured into acts and scenes. An act is a large division in the action of a play and a scene is a smaller division of action within an act.

5. Comprehension Skill Draw Conclusions
Drawing conclusions means making decisions, judgments or inferences about what we read.
If I were in the school cafeteria and I could smell bread, tomatoes, and cheese, what conclusion might I draw?
The school is serving pizza for lunch.

6. Comprehension Strategy: Questioning
Active readers ask and answer questions before, during and after reading. When you ask a literal question, the answer can be found in the text.
An interpretive question is answered by using other information in the text to figure out an answer on your own.
An evaluative question is answered by making a judgment. You will go beyond the text to answer the questions.

7. Comprehension Review: Cause and effect
An effect is something that happens.
A cause explains why it happens.
Writing may include clue words such as because, in order to, so, and as a result to link causes and effects.
If these words are missing, readers need to think about cause-and-effect relationships on their own.

8. Vocabulary Strategy Prefixes:
dis- opposite of, not
Like
Dislike
Opposite of like
re- again
Read
Reread
Read again
non – not
fiction
Nonfiction
Not fiction
dis+ honest
Dishonest
Not honest

9. What can teams accomplish?
Question of the week
What can teams accomplish?

10. Dishonest Script Snag Vocabulary – Say it! Advice Argument
Arrangements
Descendants
Dishonest
Script
Snag

11. More words to know Café Menu Cuisine Customers Strategy Teamwork
Practice
Examine
Founders
Forebears

12. recommendation about action 2. official information
Advice:
recommendation about action
2. official information

13. 1. Disagreement Reason Stated point of view
argument
1. Disagreement
Reason
Stated point of view

14. (often used in the plural)
arrangements
something that has to be done so that something else can happen in the future, or the making of such preparations
(often used in the plural)

15. somebody or something related to ancestor
descendants
somebody or something related to ancestor

16. meaning or meant to deceive, defraud, or trick people
Dishonest
meaning or meant to deceive, defraud, or trick people

17. script
the printed version of a stage play, movie screenplay, or radio or television broadcast, including the words to be spoken and often also technical directions

18. a minor problem or obstacle to progress
snag
a minor problem or obstacle to progress

19. café
a small informal restaurant serving drinks, snacks, and often light meals

20. menu
a list of the dishes that can be ordered in a restaurant or that are to be served at a formal meal

21. the range of food prepared by a restaurant, country, or person
cuisine
the range of food prepared by a restaurant, country, or person

22. a person or company that buys goods or services
customers
a person or company that buys goods or services

23. strategy
a carefully devised plan of action to achieve a goal, or the art of developing or carrying out such a plan
• business strategy

24. a cooperative effort by a group or team
teamwork
a cooperative effort by a group or team

25. • practices the piano daily
to do something repeatedly in order to improve performance in a sport, art, or hobby
• practices the piano daily

26. examine to inspect or study somebody or something in detail
• examine the scene for fingerprints

27. founders somebody who founds something
somebody who establishes an institution, business, or organization

28. forebears
long-dead relatives

29. Teamwork won the game.

30. Arnold looked at the menu before ordering.

31. The doctor had to examine the patient.

32. They ate at the little outdoor café.

33. The restaurant had a varied cuisine of Chinese and American food.

34. The customers were waiting to be served.

35. Our forebears would often hunt for food.

36. You must practice if you want to get better.

37. In order to win, you need a strategy.

38. The founders of our nation signed the Declaration of Independence.

39. morning
forest
garbage
form
alarm
corner
story
argue
backyard
start
partner
storm
Florida
apartment
sport
force
forward
sharp
garden
Arkansas

40. Great
Job!