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Reading
Lesson 4: Look Both Ways, Vignette 1, Water Booger Bears, Part 1
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
In this lesson
Today you will
Summarize and then close read, identifying symbols and their meanings and connecting these symbols to theme.
Explain how symbols represent ideas and connect to theme using text evidence and interpretive language.
Practice combining kernel sentences about the text/topic under study to support building their understanding of more complex sentences (e.g., simplifying sentences, reducing repetition, etc.).
Essential Question
How do ordinary moments reveal who we are and how we belong?
Texts used in this lesson
Novel
Look Both Ways
Jason Reynolds
Lesson Sequence
Turn and Talk
Directions: Turn and talk with a partner and choose one word to describe Jasmine and one word to describe TJ.
What is one word that describes each character? Why did you choose that word?
Sentence Combining
Directions: Over the course of this lesson, we are going to examine how sentence combining can change the way we understand specific words and sentences.
“TJ shrugged, tossing his science book onto the floor of the metal closet, the smell of feet wafting up from it like a cloud of dust, unsettled. And unsettling. The floor of his locker was littered with empty snack bags that Jasmine had slid through the door vent over the last two days.”
Check for Understanding |
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List the words unsettled and perspective in your Personal Dictionary. After each word, write its definition, then a sentence using the word correctly. Make a note about how the meaning of unsettled changes depending on context (feeling vs. object). |
Part A: Summarizing and Close Reading
Directions: Now we are going to look at the differences between summarizing and close reading.
Jasmine refers to houses in newer neighborhoods as “like a choir of homes dressed in the same robes” and says this creates “a boring, boring song.” What can these houses symbolize?”
These newer houses could symbolize conformity. Notice the way Jasmine talks about the houses on Marston Street. They are all different and appear “tried on” and “warm and worn.” What could these houses symbolize?
How does this description of Marston Street convey an idea of the story?
Reflection |
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Reflect on your confidence to identify the difference between summarizing and close reading using the Reflection routine.
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Part B: Connect Symbols to Theme
Gallery Walk
Directions: Work with a partner to identify additional symbols in the text and what they mean to Jasmine, to TJ, and/or to both. After you each identify more
symbols in the “Water Booger Bears” story, write the symbols on note cards to display on a Gallery Walk. Next, circulate and give feedback on other symbols and their connection to the story’s themes. You can use the text-dependent questions below to guide what you write on your note cards.
What is another symbol in the story? What does it tell you about the characters and their perspective?
How do these symbols convey the story’s themes?
Pulse Check |
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How do symbols help convey a story’s theme? Choose the best answer.
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Quick Write
Directions: Read and respond to the following prompt.
What symbol best represents Jasmine and TJ’s relationship, and why? Use at least one word or phrase from the text and explain what it suggests or means.