1. 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.

2. “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

3. 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

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

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

6. Establishing Purpose
To practice the skills and strategies for active reading

7. 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*

8. 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

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

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

11. 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

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

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

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

20. 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

21. 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.