The Give-and-Take Habit: teacher key

Making Friends, grade 8 edition, written for 8th grade. Friendship is a back-and-forth skill. Read what studies of apologies, hours together and getting to know people say about how friends grow close.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. In the tower experiment, what made the children feel better?
   • Hearing sorry once
   • The person helping rebuild it (answer)
   • Getting a new tower
2. Who took longer to turn an acquaintance into a casual friend?
   • Adults, about 94 hours (answer)
   • Students, about 43 hours
   • Both took the same
3. What does reciprocal mean here?
   • Give-and-take (answer)
   • One-sided
   • Very quiet
4. Why might a person fail to find friends in a place?
   • Few people there share their interests (answer)
   • Friends cost money
   • The place is too bright
5. How did the exercise's partners spend the time?
   • Mostly talking
   • About equal time talking and listening (answer)
   • Only listening

Words

• reciprocal: give-and-take
• compromising: meeting halfway
• acquaintance: someone known
• elaborate: detailed
• connectedness: feeling linked