1. The Scholarship Jacket
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2. What stands in the way of your dreams?
With a partner, consider a common goal such as going to college or getting car.
What could interfere with that goal?
What are ways you might overcome the obstacle?

3. Guided Reading Handout
Skill focus
Point of view
Inferences
Conflict
Key idea obstacles
Response to literature with textual evidence
Main character/minor character
Drawing conclusions

4. Background information
In this story, the narrator’s father is a farm laborer “who couldn’t earn enough money to feed eight children.” So, the narrator lives with her grandfather.
Farm laborers struggle with difficult working conditions, living conditions, and low wages.

5. Making Predictions Read the title and view the art on page 219.
What does the word scholarship mean?
What does the word
scholar mean?

6. As you read…. Work on the guided reading questions.
Be sure to answer the question completely; when appropriate prove your answer with evidence from the text.