A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor. DO NOW Look at the quote below… with your table partner, discuss what you think the meaning of this quote is. How can this quote be applied to your own life? A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.

“Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers “Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytic reader is to find it.” Adler and Van Doren, 1940/1972

Skills and Strategies for Active Reading Preview: Gain a sense of a text before you start to read Predict: Try to guess what will happen next Set a Purpose: Decide why you are reading a particular text Visualize: Form a mental picture of what is being described Connect: Relate personally to what you are reading Monitor: Check your own comprehension as you read Use Prior Knowledge: Call to mind what you already know about a topic Make Inferences: Make logical guesses using evidence from the text and what you know from experience

Close Reading Read with a pencil Note what’s confusing Pay attention to patterns Struggle a bit!

Model – Close Read “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

Establishing Purpose To practice the skills and strategies for active reading

As I read I will complete the following… Model: As I read I will complete the following… Reading with a pencil to be able to mark up the text… What confuses me? Underline When do I use one of the 8 reading strategies? *Star*

Text-dependent Questions (model) Are there any words or phrases you don’t know the meaning of? Can you figure out the definition based on context clues? Hopeful: eyes the color of caterpillar suggests metamorphosis—what will he become? the hundred little fingers of red, green, yellow, blue and nubs of black—a rainbow, which occurs after a storm. Painful: Geography of scars (para. 3) History of hurt (para. 3) Vocabulary and Organization Questions

“Salvador, Late or Early” A Close Reading of “Salvador, Late or Early” Cisneros, S. (1992). Woman Hollering Creek. New York: Vintage Cisneros

Establishing Purpose To examine how the author sheds light on the struggles of this character using poetic language to impact the reader.

Read and Write Independently First Reading: Read and Write Independently Read with a pencil to annotate text What powerful words or phrases affect you? Circle What confuses you? Underline

Text Evidence Check On your post-it, make an inference about Salvador. Support your thinking with a piece of text evidence.

Discuss with your partner in your home group : Describe your impressions of Salvador and the people in his life. Remember to use accountable talk (asking questions, providing evidence from the text) to compare and contrast your impressions with one another.

Jigsaw – Text dependent questions Step One: Create the foldable! Step Two (Expert Group): You will be assigned one of six text-dependent questions. Read through your text again and come up with an answer using at least one piece of text evidence to support your answer Step Three (Home Group): Meet back with your home group and discuss your expertise using accountable talk. Each individual is responsible for completing the foldable and presenting an answer with evidence from your text-dependent question

Text-dependent Questions What are his strengths? What are his needs? What words and phrases does the author use for each? Needs: He is alone and lonely (“is a boy who is no one’s friend, whose name the teacher cannot remember”,: the throat that must clear itself and apologize before it speaks”) He has little at home (“lives behind a raw wood doorway where comes are the color of bad weather (para. 1) He has lots of responsibilities (feeds the little brothers, picks up the crayons when Arturito drops them in the intersection, waits for the little brothers to take them home after school). Strengths: He is trusted with responsibilities (he feeds his little brothers, helps his mama, who is busy with the business of the baby, takes his little brothers to school and back each day.) Key Details Question

Text-dependent Questions How does Cisneros use color? To what effect? How does Cisneros use school words? To what effect? Hopeful: eyes the color of caterpillar suggests metamorphosis—what will he become? the hundred little fingers of red, green, yellow, blue and nubs of black—a rainbow, which occurs after a storm. Painful: Geography of scars (para. 3) History of hurt (para. 3) Vocabulary and Organization Questions

Text-dependent Questions One sentence is more than 80 words long, and another is more than 100 words long. Why? Breathlessness is important to understand that Salvador is always in motion. Vocabulary and Organization Questions

Text-dependent Questions Examine the use of contrasts again. What does the author want us to know about Salvador? He is more than what we see on the outside. He has a past and present that are sometimes painful, but he has joy, too. Author’s Purpose Question

Text-dependent Questions Salvador means “savior.” Is he the savior of his family? Inference Question

Text-dependent Questions Would a title change to “Heather, Late or Early” change your perspective? Why? Notice how these next two questions now move beyond the text, but only after there has been a thorough discussion of the reading first: Opinions and Intertextual Connections Question

Journal Writing Salvador is a teenager just like you… think about your own life and write about how your life is similar or different from Salvador's.