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Introduction to Deeper Reading
Directions: Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow.
How to Bartle Puzballs
There are tork gooboos of puzballs, including laplies, mushos, and fushos. Even if you bartle the
puzballs that tovo inny and onny of the pern, they do not grunto any lipples. In order to geemee a
puzball that gruntos lipples, you should bartle the fusho who has rarckled the parshtootoos after her
humply fluflu.
1. How many gooboos of puzballs are there?
2. What are laplies, mushos, and fushos?
3. Even if you bartle the puzballs that tovo inny and onny of the pern, they will not what?
4. How can you geemee of puzball that gruntos lipples?
Once you are finished, wait until everyone is done before proceeding.
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CONVERSATION PIECE
The following story was written by Ned Guymon and first appeared in a 1950 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery
Magazine. It very well may be the world’s shortest detective story. Read it and then answer the one question at the end.
Feel free to make notes, gathering clues, as you go.
“No!”
“Yes.”
“You didn’t!”
“I did.”
“When?”
“Just now.”
“Where?”
“Bedroom.”
“Dead?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“You know.”
“I don’t!”
“You do.”
“Unfaithful?”
“Yes.”
“With whom?”
“With you.”
“No!”
“Yes.”
“She didn’t…”
“She did.”
“We didn’t…”
“You did.”
“You knew?”
“I knew.”
“How long?”
“Long enough.”
“What now?”
“Guess.”
“Police?”
“Later.”
“Why later?”
“Guess again.”
“Tell me!”
“Look.”
“Oh no!”
“Oh yes.”
“You can’t!”
“I can.”
“Please!”
“Don’t beg.”
“Forgive me!”
“Too late.”
“Good God!”
“Goodbye.”
………….
“Operator?”
“Yes, sir.”
“The police.”
- Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Using inference and analysis skills, thoroughly
answer this question in a full paragraph in the
space below: What happened in this story?