LASSIS: Language Arts Sample Systematic Instruction Script Key Text: Excerpt from Marcelo in the Real World (Stork, 2009) Grade Band: High School (Grades 9-12) Focus: Building Understanding with Literature Topic Access Points Florida Standards Essential Understanding LASSI Objectives COMPRE- HENSION: Story Elements LAFS.11-12.RL.1.AP.1a Use two or more pieces of evidence to support inferences, conclusions or summaries of the plot, purpose or theme within a text. LAFS.11-12.RL.1.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. Identify a summary of the plot of a literary text. Identify the theme of a literary text. Identify details to support the plot or theme of the text. Select an inference, conclusion, or summary and support it with 2 or more details from a high school text (how do you know?). Identify purpose or theme using 2 or more pieces of evidence. Identify elements of a story (e.g., character, setting, event, conflict) and story plot (i.e., exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution).
LAFS.11-12.RL.2.AP.5a Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning. LAFS.11-12.RL.2.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. Identify elements of a story’s plot (e.g., exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.) Identify the author’s effect (e.g., tension, suspense, surprise). Identify the overall meaning. Identify how the author's choice of structure develop the meaning of the story. Identify how a part of the text contributes to the meaning of the overall story (what do you think would happen if…and why? How does knowing X help you understand Y?). USING CONTEXT CLUES LAFS.11-12.L.3.AP.4e Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. LAFS.11-12.L.3.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.4a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. Recall the meaning of frequently used suffixes, roots, and prefixes. Identify multiple meaning words up to two grade levels below the student’s grade level. Identify the context in which the unknown word is being used by looking at the text before and after it. List the possible meanings of an unknown word by using the context (words surrounding the unknown word). Use 3 or more context clues strategies to determine the meaning of a word.
Chapters Key vocabulary Main Idea & supporting detail Theme & supporting detail Passages for using context clues 5-7 customs discreet scripture competitive geographical order Marcelo discovers are many rules. People at work are discreet about their religion. They don’t quote scripture. Second, the law firm is competitive. You can be friends with someone and still compete against them. Changes and new experiences First, Arturo tells me that I have to abide by some established customs in the business world. He tells me this is work now - no more relaxing. Jasmine tells me she is not happy about me working at the law firm. She will show me today. Tomorrow, I will do it on my own. Passage: When the mail comes in, it is sorted into folders in geographical order. The folders follow the way the offices are laid out, so when you go around the office you just move from one folder to the next. 8-10 progress trust defective suing client Marcelo learns to work. One of my jobs is filling the copy machines with paper and making small talk if I have to. Arturo defines progress as successfully completing the tasks you’re given. By his definition, I am making progress. When we’re at the gym, I hear my father talking business with another man. Know your friends Arturo wants me to be friends with Wendell, but I don’t trust him. Jasmine tells me to watch out for Wendell. He is not someone I can trust. He’s all appearance, just like his father, and just as mean inside. Wendell gives Jasmine the creeps. Passage: Arturo defines progress as successfully completing the tasks you’re given.
Arturo a deal with the man to pay the people money and, in return, they stop suing Vidromek. 11-14 religion misread partners Marcelo has many questions. Aurora wanted me to talk with the Rabbi about the holy books I was reading so I didn’t misread them. I am trying to understand what Wendell means when he says he wants to have Jasmine. I get lost and call Jasmine to help me. Friends and friendships Wendell says he wants to be my friend. But, in order to be my friend, I need to do something for him. Arturo wants me to be friends with Wendell. But I don’t like what Wendell is asking me to do to Jasmine. Our fathers went to law school together. Arturo started the firm and brought Wendell’s dad in as a partner to help. Wendell wants us to be partners like our fathers. Passage: Arturo started the firm and brought Wendell’s dad in as a partner to help. 15-18 organize intact taqueria logical Marcelo finds a mystery. In the bottom of the box, I find a picture of a girl. It must have come Challenges and overcoming obstacles I told Arturo that Jasmine needs me in Passage: Half her face is intact, but the other half is missing.
from one of the Vidromek files. I show Jasmine the picture of the girl and ask her to help me figure out who she is. the mailroom, but it doesn’t matter. Half her face is intact, but the other half is missing. Why does the picture of the girl me so much? I remind myself that my goal is to make it through the summer, to complete the assignments I am given, so I can go to Patterson next year. I lie awake in my tree house trying to remember the IM, but I can’t find it. 19-21 subway Autism Spectrum reconstructive surgery Sisters memo Marcelo makes friends. I wait hours to see Jerry Garcia because there are many other people waiting to see him. Jasmine invites me to go with her on the weekend to Vermont. The girl in the picture’s name is She was hurt in a car crash. Friends help each other Jerry Garcia and Arturo went to school together. He sent Arturo the picture and a letter asking Arturo to do the right thing for the girl in the picture. When we get back, I can decide what I wanted to do about the memo and Ixtel. Passage: Ixtel needs reconstructive surgery to put her face back together. It is very painful for her to talk or eat.
Jerry Garcia needs something to prove that Vidromek knew the windshield was defective. is living with Sisters in a home about an hour from Boston. 22-26 camping dementia forgetful hostile shack Marcelo goes camping. Aurora thinks the camping trip is a idea. Arturo does not. This time Aurora wins. Namu gets to come, too. The next day we load up Kickaz with camping gear and supplies for Amos’s fishing shack. When we get to the lake, we set up the tent. Friends and family Last, I meet Jasmine’s dad, Amos. Jasmine Amos take a bath, then takes him to the doctor. It is wonderful being next to Jasmine under a million stars. Wendell’s “gift” hurts me very much. Passage: Jasmine tells me not to pay much attention to Amos because he has dementia. Dementia makes him forgetful and mean. 27-31 guarantees threatens fires Marcelo what comes next. I say yes and give Jerry Garcia the memo. Wendell knows about the memo I gave Jerry Garcia. Stay true to yourself I ask if he knew about the girl. Arturo says he knows everything that happens at the law firm. I ask if I had come to him and Passage: Wendell threatens to send a copy of Jasmine’s letter to Aurora because he knows it would hurt Aurora and me.
What causes Marcelo to put his hands over his ears? Who is Marcelo’s new boss? What does Marcelo write things down in? What special interest does Marcelo tell Jasmine about? 8-10 What does Beth need done? Why isn’t Jasmine to do the job? Where does Marcelo go for lunch every day? What does Marcelo ask Wendell? What has Marcelo felt greedy for? Small talk, documents, grimace, impress, dodge, muffled, impression 11-14 does Arturo go before work? What does Arturo want to do with Marcelo after he finishes his business? What will Arturo be given? When Marcelo asks Jasmine if he is better than Beverly, how does Jasmine respond? What does Jasmine think is beautiful? What happens when Marcelo leaves the club having lunch with Wendell? universal, gaze, yacht, crate, serene 15-18 Who did Wendell ask when he wanted Marcelo’s help? What does Wendell ask Marcelo to do? What does Marcelo find in the box? What information does Marcelo and Jasmine get from the photograph? Why is Marcelo interested in the girl in the photograph? Why does Juliet say Marcelo has been promoted? pried, kaput, disfigured, improvising, gestures, interpreting 19-21 How long did Marcelo have to wait to see Jerry Garcia? How does Garcia know Arturo? What had Jerry Garcia sent to Arturo? What had happened to Ixtel’s mother and father? Who does Jerry Garcia invite Marcelo to visit? Who does Wendell send Marcelo to visit? descended, delinquent, hostility, litigation, tactile advantage, hatred 22-26 Who does Aurora tell Marcelo to take with him on the camping trip? What does Marcelo lie about as they are leaving? What is Eleanor? motive, knoll, horizon, foundation, studio, dumbbells, inhumane