Let's Review Part A Turn and Talk: Share your answers. (1 minute turn and talk, 1 minute quick share out) Each table will be assigned A, B, C, D to defend. Is A correct or incorrect? Why? Q1. Describe the events the author presents in this section of the text (2) I worked part-time at the store a few hours a day during the summer and long hours during the Christmas season. I worked hard, a habit I got from my Jamaican immigrant parents. Jamaicans had a joke: "That lazy brute, him only have two jobs." section of the text The events the author presents in this Opening Activity Part B (1) Back when I was a teenager in the Bronx, summer was a time for both fun and work. Starting at about age fourteen, I worked summers and Christmas holidays at a toy and baby furniture store in the Bronx. The owner, Jay Sickser, a Russian Jewish immigrant, hired me off the street as I walked past his store. "You want to make a few The main idea bucks unloading a truck in the back? "he asked me. I said yes. The job took a couple of hours, and he paid me fifty cents an hour. You're a good worker," he told me when I finished. "Come back tomorrow." Q2. What main idea does the incident/experience bring out and the narrator or speaker's conclsion? Q3. What is his purpose in communicating this idea? Hint: Why do you think the author describes this event here?
