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Connecting Device to Meaning Grid Activity [Major Grade]

|Ch |Device/ Strategy [2] |Passage/p. # [2] |Connect to Meaning [8] |
|1 |Juxtaposition |“There’s a bird on the lawn that I think must be a | |
| | |nightingale come over on the Cunard or White Star Line. He’s | |
| | |singing away – ” her voice sang. “It’s romantic, isn’t it, | |
| | |Tom?”… The telephone rang inside, startingly, and as Daisy | |
| | |shook her head decisively at Tom, the subject of the stables,| |
| | |in fact all subjects, vanished into air. (20) | |
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|2 |Setting | | |
| | | | |
| |(a setting specific to | | |
| |the

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