Lesson One: Stage Three: Part 2

Directions: Read the next three paragraphs from the story below. Then in your groups, discuss the questions that follow. For each question you will supply the answer and the QAR type. Share your answers with your group; see if they agree. In looking at the questions, you can use any previous presented paragraphs.

(Paragraph 12)The Emperor now sent another officer of his court to see how the men were getting on, and to ascertain whether the cloth would soon be ready. It was just the same with this gentleman as with the minister; he surveyed the looms on all sides, but could see nothing at all but the empty frames.

(Paragraph 13)"Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you, as it did to my lord the minister?" asked the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador; at the same time making the same gestures as before, and talking of the design and colors which were not there.

(Paragraph 14)"I certainly am not stupid!" thought the messenger. "It must be, that I am not fit for my good, profitable office! That is very odd; however, no one shall know anything about it." And accordingly he praised the stuff he could not see, and declared that he was delighted with both colors and patterns. "Indeed, please your Imperial Majesty," said he to his sovereign when he returned, "the cloth which the weavers are preparing is extraordinarily magnificent."