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What impact does the title have on your reading of the text? How would "hold" or "fall" as a title change your reading of the text?

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How does the line "The mayor reported the mist." make you feel?

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What does the story say about faith and doubt?

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What does the story say about faith and doubt?

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Watch this video that features William Basinski's Disintegration Loops 1.1:

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Watch this video that features William Basinski's Disintegration Loops 1.1:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObdZ8lhC0f0
Bridge this video with Boyle's "Leap" and discuss common elements of tone, exigence and how minimalism is used for effect.

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What effect does the deliberate choice to include names in the piece have on the reader?

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How are the words leap and fall different? What does that imply?

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Was Doyle watching this happen?  If so, what thoughts do you think were going through his head?

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Was Doyle watching this happen?  If so, what thoughts do you think were going through his head?

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How does the mayor know about the "pink mist"?

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Are there any clues within the piece that help us figure out what the relationship between the two "handholders" is?

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What's the purpose?

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Were the names in Leap actual eyewitness accounts?

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Were the names in Leap actual eyewitness accounts?

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Where were the people watching from?
How old were observers?
Where was Brian Doyle during this event (people leaping)?
Does "leap" have the same meaning/connotations as "falling" in this text?
What prompted Doyle to write this?
When did he write this?
What motivated the people to "leap"?
How were the emotions of the observers different than the people who "leapt"?

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What does pink mist make you picture? Is pink a very human color? Is it a sad color?

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How does the final sentence in "The Leap" effect readers' understanding of Boyle's purpose for writing it?

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why does the writer choose to write about a subject that may or may not have existed?

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Why were they jumping?

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Did Brian Doyle do research before writing "Leap"?

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What circumstances led to this mass jumping activity?

What motivated the two people to hold hands?

If someone jumped off the ledge of a building, would you feel inclined to do the same?

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1) List questions the text asked you (3 mins)

2) Select ONE of your questions. Hit REPLY and write a response to you (6 mins)

3) Read your partner's question and response. Then REPLY to their response. (6 mins)

4) Return to your original box. Read your partner's reaction to your question and response. Then hit REPLY and respond/react to your peer's take on what you wrote. (6 mins)

Review this experience as a full group
Discuss the text

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Student: Read the text aloud.
Class: Listens, chooses one word, phrase, passage, or image that intrigues them.
Class: Free-write (pen and paper nonstop) for 5 minutes.
Student: Re-reads passage.
Class: Listens, says “Stop” when reader hit your word/line. Read A SENTENCE (no more than 2) from your free-write aloud. 
Teacher: Transitions to student-led class discussion OR have students select a different line from their free-writes and write on it for 5 minutes