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=Our first 4th Grade Novel: The Secret Garden=

=**The Secret Garden**= Response question guide - We will select our question together in class. Responses in your SMASH JOURNAL will be due at the 1:15pm, the start of each LA class.


 * BEFORE READING:**
 * After reading about the author, what possible BIG IDEAS and THEMES might she have "planted" for the reader in this Secret Garden writing project?

=“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”=
 * DURING READING**: Building on our reading work last year, we will continue to use the author's textual evidence to provide the foundation for our ideas.

― [|Frances Hodgson Burnett], //[|The Secret Garden]//

Read more quotes from [|Frances Hodgson Burnett]

We will glue the question STARTER list into our smash journals and choose one as a base for our daily RAD response. As the year goes on, we will use what we have noticed about questioning to develop our own critical questioning habits.


 * RESOURCES**

Just like last year...please always include //textual evidence// in your answers. (HABIT OF MIND: Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations: Use what is learned; Consider prior knowledge and experience; Apply knowledge beyond the situation in which it was learned.)

**For example:**

Although Esperanza, the main character in the young adult novel, __Esperanza Rising__  by Pamela Munoz, shares an obvious deep love for her parents and grandmother, perhaps it is this life of privilege that engenders the snooty vein coursing through her young life. The author paints a picture of young Esperanza, the daughter of a wealthy rancher, as the “only child and Papa’s pride and glory”. The author shows the reader that she has lived her entire, pampered life at El Rancho de las Rosas, without the ability to imagine life anywhere else or “...with any fewer servants.” Finally, the author exposes Esperanza’s own realization to her status in life in the pages describing how as a little girl she announced, “I am going to marry Miguel”, the head ranch hand’s son, and mama’s gentle admonishment and chuckle, “You will feel differently as you get older.” As a young woman near her 13th birthday, she indeed did come to understand, telling Miguel as much, “in a moment of self importance”, that her and Miguel stood on different sides of the river, “that could never be crossed.” Clearly the author’s description and examples reveal Esperanza’s spoiled demeanor as one of her dominant character traits.

(Notice how we shifted to more sophisticated INTRODUCTIONS and references to pertinent textual evidence. We no longer say “I knew this because on page 32 it says, “yada yada yada…”.like we did in Esperanza Rising.

Remember...some strong verbs are: states, shows, reveals, admits, exposes, releases, paints a picture of, let’s the cat out of the bag, foreshadows, notifies, describes, crafts, brings out into the open, brings to mind, sheds light on, acknowledges, exemplifies, breaks the news, enumerates, lists, captures, explains, divulges, outlines, brings to light, answers, investigates, reports, states, defends, identifies, assumes, advises, captures…

**GTLA SMASH JOURNAL (If I do not get your Smash Journal back to you by the end of the day, you do NOT have an assignment.)**
 * Be sure to answer the guiding questions that we glued into your Smash Journal. You can either answer them by writing in your notebook, or you can type them up and glue them in.