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Text: Kielburger Reflects on Working Toward PeacePersonal Essay by Craig Kielburger pg. 307-312Text ExcerptSummary of Text (20 Word GIST Statement) Lines 1-6When I was very young I dreamed of being Superman, soaring high above the clouds and swooping down to snatch up all of the bad people seeking to destroy our planet. I would spend hours flying across the park, stopping momentarily to kick a soccer ball in my path or to pat my dog, Muffin, who ran faithfully at my heels.Inquiry My AttemptTeacher ResponseCITE TEXT EVIDENCE Reread lines 1–6, and how do you know the essay is written using first-person point of view. Now point out language the author uses that sounds informal and conversational. Close Read Screencast Notes (Lines 7-14) Text Excerpt Summary of Text Lines 15-31 I had never heard of child labor and wasn’t certain where Pakistan was—but that day changed my life forever. I gathered a group of friends to form an organization called Free the Children. Over the past four years, in my travels for Free the Children, I have had the opportunity to meet many children around the world—children like Jeffrey, who spends his days in a Manila garbage dump, alongside rats and maggots, where he sifts through decaying food and trash, trying to salvage a few valuable items to help his family survive. He dreams of leaving the garbage dump one day. I have met children like eight-year-old Muniannal, in India, with a pretty ribbon in her hair, but no shoes or gloves, who squats on the floor every day separating used syringesgathered from hospitals and the streets for their plastics. When she pricks herself, she dips her hand into a bucket of dirty water. She dreams of being a teacher.Inquiry My AttemptTeacher Response Analyze Text: Personal Essay (LINES 15–31)Note that in a personal essay the author shares insights from life experiences. Review lines 15–31. Kielburger says the newspaper article about the boy murdered in Pakistan “changed my life forever.”Summarize the issues that galvanized (inspired)him to start Free the Children.Text Excerpt SummaryPoverty is the biggest killer of children. More than 1.3 billion people—one-quarter of the world’s population—live in absolute poverty, struggling to survive on less than one dollar a day. Seventy percent of them are women and children. I dream of a day when people learn how to share, so that children do not have to die. Every year, the world spends $800 billion on the military, $400 billion on cigarettes, $160 billion on beer, and $40 billion playing golf. It would only cost an extra $7 billion a year to put every child in school by the year 2010, giving them hope for a better life. This is less money than Americans spend on cosmetics in one year; it is less than Europeans spend on ice cream.Inquiry My ResponseTeacher’s ResponseDetermine Author’s Point of View (LINES 36–48)RI 1, RI 6Explain author’s perspective is the unique combination of ideas, values, feelings, and beliefs that influences the way the writer looks at a topic. Identifying emotional words and descriptions can help readers determine an author’s perspective.CITE TEXT EVIDENCE Ask students to review lines 36–48 to identify statements with a strong emotional impact and explain what they tell about Kielburger’s values. Text in Focus Notes Shoulder Partner’s Thoughts Text ExcerptSummary Gandhi[2] once said that if there is to be peace in the world it must begin with children. I have learned my best lessons from other children—children like the girls I encountered in India who carried their friend from place to place because she had no legs—and children like José.I met José in the streets of San Salvador, Brazil, where he lived with a group of street children between the ages of eight and fourteen. José and his friends showed me the old abandoned bus shelter where they slept under cardboard boxes. They had to be careful, he said, because the police might beat or shoot them if they found their secret hideout. I spent the day playing soccer on the streets with José and his friends—soccer with an old plastic bottle they had found in the garbage. They were too poor to own a real soccer ball.InquiryMy ResponseMy Teacher’s Response Determine Author’s Point of View (LINES 59–77)One way readers can recognize an author’s perspective is by paying attention to details and examples the author chooses to share from his or her experiences. CITE TEXT EVIDENCE Review lines 59–77 and explain how they can identify how the author feels about the experience he had with José and a group of street children in Brazil.Word Work LinesThe author’s perspective is the way he or she looks at an issue or experience. If a writer uses positive words, readers can infer that he or she views the experience positively; negative words suggest that the writer’s perspective is not favorable.?With your shoulder partner highlight words in lines 68–77 thatshow the author’s feelings about what he is doingor about the people around him.? ?Then decide whether they show positive or negative connotation (feeling) 68-77We had great fun, until one of the children fell on the bottle and broke it into several pieces, thus ending the game. It was getting late and time for me to leave. José knew I was returning to Canada and wanted to give me a gift to remember him by. But he had nothing—no home, no food, no toys, no possessions. So he took the shirt off his back and handed it to me. José didn’t stop to think that he had no other shirt to wear or that he would be cold that night. He gave me the most precious thing he owned: the jersey of his favorite soccer team. Of course, I told José that I could never accept his shirt, but he insisted.Word Work Responsepossession: The author tells how a poor boy in Brazil gave him a T-shirt, the boy’s favorite possession.Tell what it shows when someone like José, who has very little, is willing to give a new friend one of his few possessions. Word Work ResponseTurn to your shoulder partner and use the word interact in your response to the following questions: Include the academic vocabulary word interact in your responses. ? ?How would you describe the author’s interactions with children in areas of poverty? What might people learn from interacting with others who live such very different lives?Image Inquiry Analyze Graphics(PHOTOGRAPH)A graphic aid is a visual tool, such as a chart, diagram, graph, or photograph. Explain that graphic aids present readers with information in a visual way.ASK STUDENTS to examine the photograph on page 310 and point out what you can tell from the image about Craig Kielburger’s appearance and personality. My Response Teacher’s Response ................
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