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T.D. Shorts Dialogue Using your imagination, write a dialogue between two characters involved in the T.D. Shorts vignette. You might want to work with a partner, and each of you could pretend to be one of the characters. Remember to put the name of the speaker, followed by a colon, at the beginning of each new speech.
Suggested dialogues: |
| 1. | Between T.D. Shorts and partner Thomas Greenhow after the Mary Victoria Greenhow burned to the ground. |
| 2. | Between T.D. Shorts and Lord Aberdeen when Aberdeen wanted Shorts to take him from Vernon to Kelowna in 1891. |
| 3. | Between two passengers after Shorts has told them they have to help chop wood for fuel just halfway into their trip. |
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Quickwrite Write for five minutes on what you think it would be like to be T.D. Shorts on one of his trips on Okanagan Lake, either on the Ruth Shorts rowboat or the Mary Victoria Greenhow steamboat. Write for five minutes on what you think it would be like to live in the Okanagan Valley in the 1890s. Write for five minutes on what you think it would be like to be a passenger on the Mary Victoria Greenhow steamboat when it ran out of fuel. |
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