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Interpret the Text Using Close reading
Learning Target
• Express inferences and conclusions drawn based on close reading of grade-level texts and viewing of multimedia using some frequently used verbs.
Read and Annotate
Read the excerpt from Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck and annotate the text as you read.
■ Use the My Notes area to write questions or ideas you have about the story. ■ Underline words and phrases that help you identify the author’s purpose. ■ Put a star next to Steinbeck’s conclusion about animals.
■ Put an exclamation point next to details that support that conclusion.
aCTIVITY 2.3
My notes
■ Circle unknown words. from
Memoir
Travels with Charley
by John Steinbeck
chunk 1
1 I must confess to a laxness in the matter of National Parks. I haven’t visited
many of them. Perhaps this is because they enclose the unique, the spectacular, the astounding—the greatest waterfall, the deepest canyon, the highest cliff, the
most stupendous works of man or nature. And I would rather see a good Brady photograph than Mount Rushmore. For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and of our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.
2 This being my natural attitude, I don’t know what made me turn sharply south and cross a state line to take a look at Yellowstone. Perhaps it was a fear of my neighbors. I could hear them say, “You mean you were that near to Yellowstone and didn’t go? You must be crazy.” Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. Whatever my purpose
in going to Yellowstone, I’m glad I went because I discovered something about Charley I might never have known.
chunk 2
3 A pleasant-looking National Park man checked me in and then he said, “How
about that dog? They aren’t permitted in except on leash.”
4 “Why?” I asked.
5 “Because of the bears.”
6 “Sir,” I said, “this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects
the right of cats to be cats although he doesn’t admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility. I suggest that the greatest danger to your bears will be pique at being ignored by Charley.”
Unit 2 • The Power to Change • Part 2: Travels with Charley 63
representative: being a typical example of a group
tendency: the fact of being likely to act in some way
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