1. Warm-Up: Take a sheet of paper from the tan bin.
Write your name in the upper right-hand corner of the paper.
Then, copy the following word:
T E N D E R L Y
Answer the following questions (you don’t need to write the questions):
How many letters are in the word?
How many different letters are in the word?
How many different sounds are in the word? (for example “the sound ‘t’ makes).

2. Agenda
Word Attack
RATA: Comprehension strategies with a passage from classic literature (RL1: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.)
Theme (RL2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.)
Work Time: Can you find the 44 sounds of the English language?

3. What can you tell about the subject of this passage?
Who do you think it is?
What do you think has happened to this person?
Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.
Of medicine or surgery the poor thing knew nothing. She could but lick the wounds, and thus she kept them cleansed, that healing nature might the more quickly do her work.
At first ______ would eat nothing, but rolled and tossed in a wild delirium of fever. All he craved was water, and this she brought him in the only way she could, bearing it in her own mouth.
No human mother could have shown more unselfish and sacrificing devotion than did this poor, wild brute for the little orphaned waif whom fate had thrown into her keeping.

4. Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.
Of medicine or surgery the poor thing knew nothing. She could but lick the wounds, and thus she kept them cleansed, that healing nature might the more quickly do her work.
At first ______ would eat nothing, but rolled and tossed in a wild delirium of fever. All he craved was water, and this she brought him in the only way she could, bearing it in her own mouth.
No human mother could have shown more unselfish and sacrificing devotion than did this poor, wild brute for the little orphaned waif whom fate had thrown into her keeping.

5. Tarzan Parents lost in the jungles of Africa.
Parents killed and Lord John Greystoke, a baby, is left for dead.
Kala, a female gorilla, who has just lost her baby, finds Greystoke and places her dead baby in the young boy’s crib. She, then, raises Greystoke as her own.
Greystoke learns the ways of the apes and must prove himself through hunting and fighting.
Then… he finds his parents old cabin and decides he wants to learn on of the most difficult of all skills known to humans. He wants to learn…

6. TO READ

7. Tarzan of the Apes: VII: The Light of Knowledge
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Questioning
Summarizing
Clarifying
Predicting

8. Discussion Questions
How did Tarzan learn how to read? What was the most necessary “part” of his learning to read?
How would you go about teaching someone to read? Can you come up with a list of “steps” to teach someone how to read?
What, actually, are “letters?”

9. Letters and Sounds
Number your paper 1-44, skipping lines. Go through the passage we just read and find all of the “sounds” of the English language. Write the letter or letters that make those sounds and as many words as you can find that include those sounds. Underline the sounds. For example: a : scanning, had, hands s : strange, grasped, pages, reproduce er : trousers, dagger j : just, conjunctions, legibility, strange,

10. Wrap Up
What lesson about life do we learn from this passage about Tarzan?