Our+First+Trimester+-+Green+Book+Project

Summarizing Current Event Articles

=Esperanza Rising=

As we continue with our reading group, please always include //textual evidence// in your answers. **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’ve 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…”.

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… Practice

OUR (just in case you forgot your Smash Journal at school)

Reading Chapter Dates: Chapter 1 - Read Chapter 2 - Read Chapter 3 - Read Chapter 4 - Read Chapter 5 - SEE MODEL RESPONSES using "textual evidence". Choose any two questions (except for #1) to FULLY answer. Chapter 6 - Read Chapter 7- Read

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=**Common Core Learning Goals:**= [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1] Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.5] Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
 * Good readers make PREDICTIONS and ask QUESTIONS: before, during and after reading. ||
 * Good readers make PREDICTIONS and ask QUESTIONS: before, during and after reading. ||


 * PREDICTIONS **
 * - ** CONFIRM ** or...
 * - ** DENY ** and...
 * - ** ADJUST ** your predictions.
 * That means - when you come across information/text/clues that tells you whether your prediction was right or wrong NOTE THE PAGE NUMBER where you found your clue, then make another PREDICTION(s).


 * QUESTIONS **
 * Same thing as predictions. Read with your questions in mind. NOTE THE PAGE NUMBER when you found your answer, then develop other QUESTIONS.

Please always include //textual evidence// in your answers. **For example: The people were leaving planet Earth because on page 5 it says, "The Disaster from which we were escaping happened much sooner than they thought it would..." **