Welcome to CAFÉ SQUIDD

• Fold your piece of paper in half to create a
“menu.”
• Write the title on the front cover along
with your name.
Ex. Café Squidd by Mrs. Breaux
Make sure to take clear and detailed notes
in your menu.
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• Comparisons: Explain something that is like
something else, a simile or a metaphor, or simply
looking at one thing and seeing another. You can
find an example or create one.
• Example:
• “It is as if the brain is pouring out its power.”
-The Fragile Teenage Brain, Jonah Lehrer
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• Anecdotes: Find little stories, or parts
of a narrative (something personal from
the author).
Example:
“It will begin with nervous parents reading
about brain trauma, with doctors warning
about the physics of soft brain tissue
smashing into hard bone, with coaches
forced to bench stars for an entire season
because of a single concussion.”
-The Fragile Teenage Brain
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Example:
• Facts: Name an
actual
occurrence
that can be
verified.
“In fact, the chances of
getting a concussion
while playing high
school football are
approximately three
times higher than the
second most
dangerous sport,
which is girls’ soccer.”
-The Fragile Teenage Brain
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• Examples: think of an example that can
be used as a way of clarifying meaning.
Example:
“The immaturity of these areas helps explain the
immaturity of teenagers.”
-The Fragile Teenage Brain
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•Statistics- Provide numbers or data from the
article that prove something.
Example: “For instance, a 2009 study commissioned by the NFL
found that former players between the ages of 30 and 49 were
being diagnosed with severe memory-related diseases at
approximately nineteen times the rate of the general
population.”
-The Fragile Teenage Brain
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• Quotations-
something said by
someone else, by
someone famous or
knowledgeable in a
discipline (credible),
resource for quote,
saving favorite quote,
connection quote to
the text.
• Example:
“Although McKee has only
studied a single teenage brain,
she found that brain damage was
already detectable, with the
multiple-concussed 18-year-old
football player showing
irreversible signs of CTE in parts
of the frontal cortex. According
to McKee, this is the earliest
evidence of CTE ever recorded.”
-The Fragile Teenage Brain
• Illustrations- Find
words that make
pictures in the mindimagery using the sense
to create pictures. If
you cannot find them,
create them.
Example:
“Although the brain is
surrounded by cerebrospinal
fluid, a severe impact or
abrupt change in head speed
can push those three pounds
of meat straight through the
fluid, so that it crashes into
the cranium.”
-The Fragile Teenage Brain
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• Details- Specifics-describe something
important from your article like it was
only five inches away (close-up).
Example:
“ There is no bodily metaphor for what
happens when the Jell-O of cortex
accelerates into the skull.”
-The Fragile Teenage Brain
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• Definition- Provide a definition for one of
the main issues in your article.
Example:
“CTE is a disease of violence. It is what happens
when the brain is smashed into the skull again
and again.”
-The Fragile Teenage Brain