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Essential Questions:

How does one activate his/her schema when making inferences?

What tools can we utilize as we work with a text to recall, summarize, make inferences and utilize context clues while we read?

WHY ARE WE LEARNING THIS?

It’s important for us to learn how to read a text closely and utilize our reading tools to decode a text.

Have Space Suit- Will Travel

"There must be a number of ways to get to the Moon, son. Better check 'em all. Reminds me of this passage I'm reading. They’re trying to open a tin of pineapple and Harris has left the can opener back in London. They try several ways." He started to read aloud, and I sneaked out – I had heard that passage five hundred times. Well, three hundred.

I went to my workshop in the barn and thought about ways. One way was to go to the Air Academy at Colorado Springs – if I got an appointment, if I graduated, if I managed to get picked for the Federation Space Corps, there was a chance that someday I would be ordered to Lunar Base, or at least one of the satellite stations.

Another way was to study engineering, get a job in jet propulsion, and buck for a spot that would get me sent to the Moon. Dozens, maybe hundreds, of engineers had been to the Moon, or were still there – for all sorts of work: electronics, cyrogenics, metallurgy, ceramics, air conditioning, as well as rocket engineering.

Oh, yes! Out of a million engineers a handful got picked for the Moon. Getting picked would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Shucks, I rarely got picked even playing post office, much less go to the moon. I’m just setting my sights on something that is unfeasible.

  1. The genre (type of literature) of this text is most likely…
  1. Biography
  2. Fairytale
  3. Folktale
  4. Science fiction
  1. What can you infer (guess)about the narrator’s relationship with his father?
  1. The narrator and his father get along well and often talk over problems or concerns
  2. The father finds his son to be irritating and unintelligent
  3. The son finds his father to be irritating because he often repeats himself and reads the same text over and over.
  4. None of the above
  1. When the narrator notes that “getting picked would be like finding a needle in a haystack” what type of literary device is being used?
  1. Hyperbole (Over exaggeration in order to emphasize something.)
  2. Alliteration (Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word or words.)
  3. Metaphor (Comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using the words “like” or “as”. Verbs such as “is, are, was, were, am” are used instead.)
  4. Idiom (An expression that means something different and deeper than the actual literal use of the words. Example: “A Chip On Your Shoulder”= Being upset for something that happened in the past.)
  1. What does “unfeasible” mean in the final paragraph?
  1. Impossible
  2. Obstacle
  3. Unimportant
  4. Boring or uninteresting
  1. What can you infer (guess) about what the narrator wants to do?
  1. Become a member of Star Trek
  2. Wear a space suit
  3. Become an astronaut on the moon
  4. There is not enough information to determine an answer
  1. Which of the following quotes emphasizes that the author doesn’t believe he’ll ever get to the moon:
  1. “[…] if I got an appointment, if I graduated, if I managed to get picked for the Federation Space Corps, there was a chance that someday I would be ordered to Lunar Base, or at least one of the satellite stations.”
  2. “Another way was to study engineering, get a job in jet propulsion, and buck for a spot that would get me sent to the Moon.”
  3. “Dozens, maybe hundreds, of engineers had been to the Moon, or were still there – for all sorts of work: electronics, cyrogenics, metallurgy, ceramics, air conditioning, as well as rocket engineering”
  4. “Getting picked would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Shucks, I rarely got picked even playing post office, much less go to the moon.”