An important theme in The Treasure of Lemon Brown involves the meaning of the word Greg learns from Lemon “treasure”. Brown that the value of something is highly personal; only its owner can ever appreciate its real worth and pass it on to others. Do you agree or disagree with this claim? Support your claim by tracing Greg’s discovery of what really “treasure” means. Compose an argument that is one page or more in length. Support your claims with valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence from the text, including direct quotes and page numbers. Teacher Instructions Students identify their writing task from the prompt provided. Students complete an evidence chart as a pre-writing activity. Teachers should remind students to use any relevant notes they compiled while reading and answering the text-dependent questions. Evidence Elaboration / explanation of how this evidence Quote or paraphrase supports ideas or argument man got a treasure. You don’t know that, When Greg first meets Lemon Brown, Greg tells “Every you must be a fool.” him he’s not looking for Lemon Brown’s treasure even if he has one. Greg doubted that Lemon Brown could have a treasure since he was homeless. Lemon Brown is insinuating that treasures are not always related to monetary wealth. I know is that I heard him talking about some The thugs were looking for money, and mistakenly “All kind of treasure. You know they found that thought that the treasure Lemon Brown kept shopping bag lady with that load of money in her referring to was money. They only defined a bags.” treasure as money. down your money, old man, so I won’t The thugs were willing to commit a violent act for “Throw have to bash your head in!” the treasure (money). The old man was willing to
An important theme in The Treasure of Lemon Brown involves the meaning of the word “treasure”. Greg learns from Lemon Brown that the value of something is highly personal; only its owner can ever appreciate its real worth and pass it on to others. Do you agree or disagree with this claim? Support your claim by tracing Greg’s discovery of what “treasure” really means. Compose an argument that is one page or more in length. Support your claims with valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence from the text, including direct quotes and page numbers. Teacher Instructions Students identify their writing task from the prompt provided. Students complete an evidence chart as a pre-writing activity. Teachers should remind students to use any relevant notes they compiled while reading and answering the text-dependent questions. Evidence Quote or paraphrase Elaboration / explanation of how this evidence supports ideas or argument “Every man got a treasure. You don’t know that, you must be a fool.” When Greg first meets Lemon Brown, Greg tells him he’s not looking for Lemon Brown’s treasure even if he has one. Greg doubted that Lemon Brown could have a treasure since he was homeless. Lemon Brown is insinuating that treasures are not always related to monetary wealth. “All I know is that I heard him talking about some kind of treasure. You know they found that shopping bag lady with that load of money in her bags.” The thugs were looking for money, and mistakenly thought that the treasure Lemon Brown kept referring to was money. They only defined a treasure as money. “Throw down your money, old man, so I won’t have to bash your head in!” The thugs were willing to commit a violent act for the treasure (money). The old man was willing to
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