[Maria has been mysteriously quiet for most of the meeting, bent over a science worksheet as she is. Her teacher had told her that one more missing homework and she'd be calling Maria's mama--and Maria really didn't want her teacher to call Mama. So even though she'd much rather be having fun with her friends--they'd been so lively, she could hear them--Maria was working very hard to fill out her worksheet on plate tectonics.
There was a picture of all the plates and a list of names to match up with the plates and Maria had with great effort figured out at least half of them, but the other half had silly names like Cocos and Scotia and try as she might, Maria couldn't imagine which ones they'd match up to.]
Do you know which ones they are? [With help, the stuffed turtle shakes his head.] Not a clue! [Maria sighs.] Maria will just have to ask one of the others.
[She scans her crowd of older friends. They were all bigger than her, so probably any of them would know enough to help her. So which one?]
For Osaka (and later Hiroshi)
There was a picture of all the plates and a list of names to match up with the plates and Maria had with great effort figured out at least half of them, but the other half had silly names like Cocos and Scotia and try as she might, Maria couldn't imagine which ones they'd match up to.]
Do you know which ones they are? [With help, the stuffed turtle shakes his head.] Not a clue! [Maria sighs.] Maria will just have to ask one of the others.
[She scans her crowd of older friends. They were all bigger than her, so probably any of them would know enough to help her. So which one?]
OSAKA! MARIA NEEDS HELP!