LASSIS: Language Arts Sample Systematic Instruction Script Key Text: Excerpt from The Pearl Grade Band: High School (Grades 9-12) Focus: Building Understanding of Words and Stories Topic Access Points Florida Standards Essential Understanding LASSI Objectives PASSAGE COMPREHENSION LAFS.9-10.RL.1.AP.1a Use two or more pieces of evidence to support inferences. Use two or more pieces of textual evidence to support conclusions. LAFS.9-10.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. Determine the plot, purpose or theme within a text. Cite evidence which supports an inference, conclusion, or summary within the text. Match evidence to a provided summary. Identify a summary of the plot of the literary text. Find evidence for a conclusion from a provided text. Find evidence for a selected inference from a provided text. Identify key details from the text that support the summary. Use two or more pieces of evidence to support inferences, conclusions or summaries of the LAFS.11-12.RL.1.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as Identify a summary of the plot of a literary text. Identify the theme of a literary text.
plot, purpose or theme within a text. inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. Identify details to support the plot or of the text. USING CONTEXT CUES LAFS.9-10.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.9-10.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 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 the context (words surrounding the unknown word). Use various types of context clues like definition/explain, restatement/synonym, contrast/antonym, inference, and punctuation. Use a dictionary to verify the meaning guessed by using the surrounding words. Select picture that best illustrates sentence with an unknown or multiple meaning word by using context cues in sentence. 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 LAFS.11-2.L.3.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases Recall the meaning of frequently used suffixes, roots, and prefixes.
Canoe Coyotito’s body. He was getting better! How do we know Coyotito was getting better? He swam to the surface, reached over the side of the canoe and laid the oyster in the bottom. What does Kino hope is inside the oyster? Gathering pearls to sell is how Kino makes money to support his family. What did Kino do to make money? Pearls are formed inside oysters at the bottom of the ocean. Where are pearls formed? that he could help Coyotito. Supporting Details: Gathering pearls to sell is how Kino money to support his family. She that they might find a pearl so that they could pay the doctor to cure the baby. Kino looked inside, and there it laid, the great pearl, perfect as the moon. a very large oyster lying by itself, not covered with other oysters. A hummock is a low mound or ridge of earth. (students use the definition to determine the meaning) It was bright and glowed with a silver incandescence. (students use the words in the sentence to determine the meaning) His eyes were shining with excitement. Juana sensed his excitement but looked away because it is not good to want something too much. (Provide sentences for response options. Correct sentence would be: “Sensed his excitement” meant that even though Kino did not say a word, Juana could tell Kino was
excited by the look on his face.) 3 Amplified Radiated Lucent Evoke Concealed Confirmation *Incandescent (also a vocabulary word from chapter 2) Even the beggars in of the church giggled with pleasure. They knew that there is no better almsgiver than a poor man who is suddenly lucky. A poor man knows what it is like to have nothing so he gives money and food to the poor. Who hoped that Kino would give money and food to the poor? Why did they think he would give to the poor? He saw two men approach; Kino saw that one was the doctor and the other servant who had opened the gate in the morning. Kino stood in the door, looking at the approaching men and hatred radiated from his eyes, but he was also fearful. How did Kino feel when he saw the doctor and his servant? Juana could see a brooding hate growing in Kino and this evoked fear in her. “This thing is evil,” Juana cried harshly. “This pearl is like a sin! It will destroy us.” What was evoked in when she saw how angry Kino was? Summary: Kino thinks the pearl will bring good but Juana thinks the pearl will bring bad. Supporting Details: Everyone in the town wondered how they benefit from the pearl. “We will be married in the church.” “My son will go to school.” Juana could see a brooding hate growing in Kino and this evoked fear in her. “This thing is evil.” Confirmation She looked at the neighbors for confirmation, and they nodded their heads in agreement. Lucrative Almsgiver Even the beggars in front of the church giggled with pleasure. They knew that there is no better almsgiver than a poor man who is suddenly lucky. A poor man knows what it is like to have nothing so he gives money and food to the poor. Father (multiple meaning word) “The Father is coming-the priest is coming.” The men uncovered their heads and stepped back from the door, and the women gathered their shawls about their faces and cast down their eyes. The priest from the church in town came in.
Why does she say the is like a sin? (or why does she think the pearl is bad?) 4 Procession (review from earlier chapter) Strategy Benign Contemptuous Price Sinister Monstrosity What does the pearl buyer offer to pay Kino first? (1000 pesos) What is the second (1500 pesos) What reasons do the pearl buyers give for not liking Kino’s pearl? (feel free to this question) What does Juana want to do with the pearl? Challenge question-What was the strategy of the pearl buyers? Summary: Selling the pearl does not go as Kino had hoped. Kino is not offered a fair price so he does not sell the pearl. Supporting details: For Kino and this was the most important day of their lives, second only to the day Coyotito was born. “There is no market for such things. I am sorry. You thought it was a thing of value, and it is only a curiosity." I can give you, say, a thousand pesos." Kino's face grew sinister and dangerous. "It is worth fifty thousand," he said. "You know it. You want to cheat me." "I am cheated," Kino cried fiercely. "My pearl is not for sale here. I will go, perhaps even to the capital." Perplexed (unknown word) Kino did not understand. He looked perplexed and worried. "It is the Pearl of the World," he cried. "No one has ever seen such a pearl." Pesos (unknown word) "On the contrary," said the buyer, "it is large and clumsy. As a curiosity it may have some value; some museum might purchase it to place in a collection of seashells. I can pay you, say, a thousand pesos." Appraiser (unknown word) "Do not blame me," he said quickly. "I am only an appraiser; I am just making an estimate of the value of the pearl. Ask the others.”
5 Retrieve Conceived Skirmish Attribute Catastrophe Canoe Brush House (review from earlier chapter) Why did Kino say he killed the stranger? Juana already believed the great pearl was evil. Who else believes the pearl is evil? Why do Kino and his family have to leave town? do Kino, Juana, and Coyotito hide? Summary: Bad things are happening to Kino. He, Juana, and Coyotito must leave town. Supporting details: Kino grabbed the pearl from her. Kino was furious! He hit Juana with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders. Finally, the rage left Kino and he was disgusted with what he had done. He turned away and headed up through the path. Juana knew that the old life was gone forever. A dead man in the path and Kino's knife, beside him, convinced her. But when Kino arrived at the canoe he saw that a hole had been knocked into the bottom. For the fisherman of the houses, there was no life without a boat. The dead man had been and the townspeople were forming a search Finishing the job (unknown phrase) In the moonlight she saw a glimmer of the great pearl. She thought about going back to the sea and finishing the job. *Consider what has happened in the text that will tell us what the job was that she didn’t finish. He saw her move toward the fireplace and move the stone where Kino had placed the great pearl. And then like a shadow she glided toward the door and was gone. Her arm was up to throw when Kino grabbed the pearl from her. Divert (unknown word) "I will hide you," said Juan Tomas. The neighbors do not know what has happened to you and your family. I will go divert any suspicions by giving them theories about
party to look for Kino and his family. Kino said he thought he would go north to a city. what has happened to you. I do not want them to think you are still here so I will tell them I think you have gone south along the coast.” Breaks (multiple meaning word) The sun will rise soon and we must be gone before the day breaks." 6 Sinister Petulant Hysterical Kino could feel the blown sand against his ankles and he was glad, for he knew there would be no tracks. How did Kino know there would be no tracks? (inferential) What happens to the trackers? Where do Kino and Juana go after Coyotito is killed by the trackers? What does Kino do with the pearl at the end of the novella? Summary: Kino and his family try to escape but bad things continue to happen. Kino and no longer want the great pearl. Supporting details: The two walked carefully, and they avoided the center of the town someone might see them pass. Kino aimed deliberately and fired. He saw his enemy tumble backward. He knew the then moaning, rising hysterical cry from the little cave where he had left Juana and Coyotito. It was the cry of death. Lumber (multiple meaning word) Here are two meanings of the word lumber: 1. Wood that will be used to build something. 2. To move clumsily or heavily. What do you think the word lumbered means in the sentence below? Once a animal lumbered somewhere in the darkness. Germane (unknown word) For any sound, a rolling pebble or a sigh, a little slip of flesh on rock, would alert the trackers. They would notice any sound that was not germane, or out of place, to the night.
He saw the evil that the pearl had brought. And Kino drew back his arm and the pearl back into the ocean with all his might. BUILD TOWARDS GRADE LEVEL COMPETENCE (Level 4 Text): Read the chapters covered in the lesson above aloud to the students but use the actual non-adapted text. This will provide students with an opportunity to hear more complex vocabulary, literary elements that may have been removed when creating the adapted text, and the author’s tone. Here are some comprehension questions to use for each chapter. Original Chapters “Wh” questions Additional vocabulary to teach for this chapter 1 What does Kino see and hear when he opens his eyes? Why were Kino and Juana worried about the scorpion? Appraised Poverty Pulque 2 What is the main event of this chapter? What song is introduced in this chapter? Deliberately Estuary Mirage 3 What is the town compared to? What Kino do with his riches? Why does the doctor come and what does he do? Confirmation Consequently Essence 4 What happened when Kino went to sell his pearl? What evil event happened that makes Juana want to throw away the pearl? Extravagant Function Vigor Lethargy 5 Where did Juana go early in the morning? What did Kino do when he found out where Juana went? Why did they leave the village? Edifice Exhilaration Stifling Theories 6 What happened to Coyotito? What happened to the trackers? What happened to Kino and Juana? What happened to the pearl? Apprehensively Erosion Wrenched Immune
Read aloud this poem: “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” By Emily Dickinson Who do you think the author is talking about when she says “We?” What does the author mean when she says “The Bravest?” Where have we seen or experienced Darkness? Why is the Dark capitalized throughout the poem? What is this poem about? - darkness - adapting - light - dark And sometimes hit a tree. This poem could be used to help students understand personification and other figurative language skills. The use of Darkness as a noun is useful in translating these ideas.