1. Call me maria
Questions 11, 16-17

2. Welcome! Monday, august 22 Please come in quietly.
Have a seat in your assigned seat.
Write in your agenda.
Leave it out for me to stamp.
Don’t forget we have a vocabulary quiz tomorrow. Spelling counts.
Take out one sheet of notebook paper for your bell ringer assignment.

3. Bell ringer
Directions: Take out a sheet of notebook paper. Read each question below and create sentence starters. You do not have to answer the questions. Skip lines in between each sentence starter.
What is one simile that describes Maria’s feelings? How does it describe Maria’s feelings?
How does the structure of the text change in “Call Me Maria”?
What type of information does the author provide in the beginning of the text?
What details in the text does the author use to describe Mami’s appearance?
What tone does the author create with the details she gives about Mami?

4. Review bell ringer answers
What is one simile that describes Maria’s feelings? How does it describe Maria’s feelings?
One simile that describes Maria’s feelings is ___. It describes Maria’s feelings by ___.
How does the structure of the text change in “Call Me Maria”?
The structure of the text changes in “Call Me Maria” from ___ to ___.
What type of information does the author provide in the beginning of the text?
The type of information the author provides in the beginning of the text is ___.
What details in the text does the author use to describe Mami’s appearance?
The author uses details like ___ and ___ to describe Mami’s appearance.
What tone does the author create with the details she gives about Mami?
The tone the author creates with the details she gives about Mami is ___.

5. set
Paragraphs 5 and 6
Highlight details in the text that describe Mami’s appearance.
What does it mean when a person is very concerned about her looks?
She’s vain or She takes herself seriously
Compare Mami’s appearance to the appearance of the children. What do you think about this contrast?
It’s clear that Maria is very aware about how different her mother is from the rest of the barrio neighborhood.

6. set
Tone is the author’s attitude toward the topic. Author’s express tone through word choice, imagery, and details.
What tone does the author create with the details she gives about Mami?
Relaxed
Uncomfortable
Curious
Excited

7. Clear targets I can create correct sentence starters.
I can discuss perspectives, context clues, and sensory details in questions 11, 16, and 17 of “Call Me Maria.”

8. Flip to your Table of Contents
Add page 11 to your Table of Contents
“Call Me Maria” Questions 11, 16-17
Title page 11
Glue your questions in your notebook; Be GENTLE while you glue your questions in. It doesn’t take much to glue.
Locate clues in the text that help the reader understand the word “strutting.”
I will model how to use context clues to identify the definition of an unknown word.

9. “Call me Maria” teacher
Question 11 – on page 11 of your ISN
In paragraph 8, the author describes how Mami sees the barrio women. In paragraph 11, she describes how the barrio women see Mami. How do their different perspectives affect Maria? Find details in the story that illustrate Maria’s reaction to each perspective.
When Mami notices ___ about the barrio women, Maria feels ___.
When the women notice ___ about Mami, Maria feels ___.
These different perspectives create a conflict because ___.

10. “Call me Maria” check for understanding
What is one example of what the “evil tongues” say about Mami?
One example of what the “evil tongues” say about Mami is when they call her a “pretty bird.”

11. “Call me Maria” independent
Question 16 – on page 11 of your ISN
What does resolved mean? Why doesn’t Maria try to resolve her parents’ conflict?
Resolved means ___.
Maria doesn’t try to resolve her parents’ conflict because ___.

12. “Call me Maria” teacher
Question 17 – on page 11 of your ISN
The author uses sensory details in paragraphs 21 and 22 to convey Maria’s response to Mami’s request that she return to the “island.” Find details in the text that describe the senses. What effect does the author achieve by including these details?
The author uses sensory details like ___ and ___ to convey Maria’s response to Mami’s request that she return to the “island.”
The effect the author achieves by including these details is ___.

13. Clear target check I can create correct sentence starters.
I can discuss perspectives, context clues, and sensory details in questions 11, 16, and 17 of “Call Me Maria.”

14. closure
Directions: Read the question below. Create a sentence starter. Then answer the question.
Question: How do the events in paragraphs compare to Maria’s dream in paragraph 4 about how she wanted the visit to be?