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interpret the Text Using Close reading
Learning Targets
• Apply understanding of how novels are structured to comprehend the text.
• Explain how phrasing or different common words with similar meaning produce
different effects on the audience.
• Draw and support inferences from a close reading of the text.
• Analyze theme and how it is communicated through a close reading of dialogue, connotative language, and events.
• Use knowledge of word structure, context, reference materials, and visual cues to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words on familiar topics.
Read and Annotate
Read the excerpt from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and annotate the text as you read.
■ Use the My Notes area to write questions or ideas you have about the story.
■ Underline descriptions that help you visualize the characters, setting,
and events.
■ Put a star next to dialogue that suggests the theme of the story.
■ Put an exclamation mark next to dialogue that shows Bruno does not understand Shmuel’s situation.
■ Circle unknown words.
by John Boyne
1 Two boys were sitting on opposite sides of a fence.
2 “All I know is this,” began Shmuel. “Before we came here I lived with my mother
and father and my brother Josef in a small flat above the store where Papa makes his watches. Every morning we ate our breakfast together at seven o’clock and while we went to school, Papa mended the watches that people brought to him and made new ones too. I had a beautiful watch that he gave me but I don’t have it anymore. It had a golden face and I wound it up every night before I went to sleep and it always told the right time.”
3 “What happened to it?” asked Bruno.
4 “They took it from me,” said Shmuel.
5 “Who?”
6 “The soldiers of course,” said Shmuel as if it was the most obvious thing
in the world.
aCTiViTY 1.3
My notes
novel excerpt
from
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Who are the soldiers Shmuel mentions? Why did they take his watch?
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