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The Marginal World

The Marginal World. Pick any 5 margin prompts to answer Write the question on your paper Page 164 #1-4 – you MUST include quotes in your responses for credit Page 165 #1a, 3, 4, 5

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The Marginal World

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  1. The Marginal World • Pick any 5 margin prompts to answer • Write the question on your paper • Page 164 #1-4 – you MUST include quotes in your responses for credit • Page 165 #1a, 3, 4, 5 • CEI Paragraph: Explain Carson’s purpose for describing one of the following items in such great detail: the hydroid Tubularia, the ghost crab, or the mangrove periwinkles. Explain how her description of these creatures supports the points she tries to make in “The Marginal World.” • Claim: Carson’s description of ______ supports her thesis/ perspective by _____________.

  2. The Marginal World • Identify/Analyze the significance of… • Purpose of writing, central idea, thesis • “The shore has a dual nature…” (p. 158) • Why Carson admires life forms in intertidal zone (158) • Effect of low tide throughout the text (159-161) • Author’s connection to the pool in the cave (159-160) • Description of pool at low tide (160) • Description of mud flats at night (161) • Significance, symbolism in following scenes: Ghost crab scene, hydroid Tubularia scene, mangrove periwinkle snail scene

  3. “Human lives should be sacrificed in the name of great discoveries”

  4. “Major scientific discoveries rarely affect the daily lives of people”

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