1. A Day’s Wait and Stolen Day
By Ernest Hemingway - Sherwood Anderson
Comparing Characters and Character Traits

2. Preparing to Read
Identify five text features seen throughout these stories.
Identify and define the Literary Focus element of this text.
Identify and define the Reading Focus skill used in this text.
What is the Writing Focus assignment and what are you asked to look for as you read the beginning of the text?

3. Build Background and Preview the Selection
Read the “Build Background” and “Preview the Selection” sections on pages 299 and 304.
Make a list of at least three important facts you learn about each of the stories.
Circle a detail from each list that you think is the most important.

4. Author Information Read the “Meet the Writers” section on page 298.
Make a list of at least three important facts you learn about each of the authors.
Circle the detail you think is the most important for each.

5. Think about how it must feel to be chronically ill.
Quick Write
Illness
Illness is part of the human experience as we all have been sick at one time or another.
Think about how it must feel to be chronically ill.
Write about a time when you were facing illness or someone you know was and explain how it felt or how you imagine it felt for someone else.

6. Vocabulary
Today, we will be doing vocabulary in a different way. Your job is to write down the vocabulary terms below and their definitions. Then, either on your own or working in small groups, write a narrative story that includes each term. Your story can be funny, serious, scary, or mysterious, but make sure the terms are used accurately.
DETACHED
COMMENCED
SLACK
SOLEMN
WRIGGLED

7. A Day’s Wait – Stolen Day
Literary Response
A Day’s Wait – Stolen Day
Read the text carefully and ponder the question below.
What do you think a person could discover about himself/herself when he or she is afraid or facing a serious illness?
Use this story as a means to examine the question below as it might relate to you personally.

8. Preview and Predictions
Before Reading Skills
Preview and Predictions
Make a list of the things you “know” or “think you know” based only on the text features.
Make a list of at least 3 things you want to know, but you need to read in order to find out.
What genre or type of text do you think we are reading? Why?

9. During Reading Skills Setting Purposes What’s the Purpose?
Why are you reading this?
What will you learn from this text?
Why did the writer share this story?
What’s the Purpose?
Based on what you have previewed so far and learned about the authors and the background of the stories, what are three purposes for reading this story.

10. Comprehension/Discussion Questions
Note all of the comprehension/discussion questions that appear at the bottom of most of the columns of the text.
Be sure to stop, read, and answer (to yourself) each question.

11. Stop and Think!!!
What conflicts do the characters in the story encounter?
How do the various characters deal with those conflicts? Do the conflicts get resolved?

12. Construct a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast these two pictures
Construct a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast these two pictures. Try to incorporate vivid adjectives!!

13. Comparison Chart A Day’s Wait Stolen Day Setting Character Plot
Author’s Style