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    Lesson 1: Reading and Writing Connection

    Assignment: Plus – Minus – Interesting

    Read the passage entitled Tulips and do the following:

    1. Draw a table with three columns and label the columns Plus, Minus, and Interesting respectively.

    2. Find key information in the reading passage and write it into one of the three columns; write ideas

    that you consider positive or that you like in the Plus column; ideas that seem negative or that you

    don’t like in the Minus column, and ideas that you find particularly interesting in the Interesting

    column.

    3. On the next meeting, work in pairs or small groups to share the information on your charts and to

    explain your positions on the topic.

    PLUS MINUS INTERESTING


    Tulips

    One thousand pounds of cheese for one flower! That

    may sound like an unfair trade, but it happened once. Tulips

    were first grown in Holland in the 1600s. Many rich people

    enjoyed planting them in their gardens. They were willing to pay

    a lot of money for the tulip bulbs, which looked like small onions.

    Traders drove up the prices. They began to buy up the tulips to

    sell them later for more money.

    Other people enjoyed collecting rare types of tulips.

    Soon, tulip bulbs were worth thousands of silver coins. People

    sold everything they had to buy them. The prices went up so

    quickly that people thought they would be able to get rich by

    selling the tulips later.

    Tulips became popular very quickly, but not everyone knew what they were. One sailor returned

    home from a long voyage. He did not know about the tulips. He visited a rich gentleman who collected rare

    tulips. The rich man had an expensive tulip bulb on his table. He went out of the room and left the sailor

    alone. The sailor thought that the bulb was an onion. He sliced it and placed it on his sandwich. Then he ate

    it! The owner was furious when he found out that his expensive flower was eaten for lunch! The craze for the

    new flowers soon ended. Traders realized that they were just flowers. The prices came down quickly. Many

    people lost a lot of money. All they had left were cheap tulip bulbs. Today, people all over the world value

    tulips, but if you ate one for lunch, no one would become angry.

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