A Summers Reading Part 1 English Literature 5

A Summer’s Reading Part 1 English Literature 5 points 10 th Grade Mr. Chaim Zoppo

Goals for the Lesson • I can understand the setting of the story • I can learn new vocabulary and know their meanings • I can follow and understand the basic events of Part 1

Getting to Know the Setting of the Story

Pictures of New York City at the Time of the Story

A Summer’s Reading Part George Stoyonovich was a neighborhood boy who 1 ד ח ף had quit high school on an impulse when he was sixteen, run out of patience, and though he was ﺩﺍﻓﻊ ashamed every time he went looking for a job, when people asked him if he had finished and he had to say no, he never went back to school. This summer was a hard time for jobs, and he had none. Having so much time on his hands, George thought ר ש of going to summer school, but the kids in his ם classes would be too young. He also considered ﻳﺴﺠﻞ registering in a night high school, only he 1)Why didn’t George go to summer school in order to finish didn't like the idea of the teachers always High School? telling him what to do. 2) Why didn’t George go night high school?

He felt they had not respected him. The result was he stayed off the streets and in his room most of the day. He was close to twenty and had ﻣﺘﻘﻄﻊ / ﺑﻴﻦ ﺍﻟﺤﻴﻦ ﻭﺍﻻﺧﺮ needs with the neighborhood girls, מ ז ד מ but no money to spend, and he ן couldn't get more than an occasional ד מ few cents because his father was ה poor, and his sister Sophie, who ﻳﺸﺒﻪ resembled George, a tall bony girl of twenty-three, earned very little and what she had she kept for 1) How did George spend his days? herself. Their mother was dead, and 2) What is the George’s family situation? Sophie had to take care of the house.

Very early in the morning George's father got up to go to work in a fish market. Sophie left at about eight for her long ride in the subway to a cafeteria in the Bronx. George had his coffee by himself, then שוחט hung around in the house. When the house, a five-room railroad ﺟﺰﺍﺭ flat above a butcher store, got on his nerves he cleaned it up - mopped the floors with a wet mop and put things away. But most of the time he sat in his room. 1) Where did George’s father and Sophie In the afternoons he listened work? to the ball game.

A book of facts for the year. For example, the most powerful Hurricane of 1969 was named Camiel Otherwise he had a couple of old copies of the World Almanac he had bought long ago, and he liked to read in them and also the magazines and newspapers that Sophie brought home, that had been left on the tables in the cafeteria. They were mostly picture magazines about movie stars and sports figures, also usually the News and Mirror. Sophie herself read whatever fell into her hands, although she sometimes read good books.

She once asked George what he did in his room all day and he said he read a lot too. "Of what besides what I bring home? Do you ever read any worthwhile books? “ "Some, " George answered, although he really didn't. He had tried to read a book or two that Sophie had in the house but found he was in no ﻧﺠﺎﺭﺓ mood for them. Lately he couldn't stand made-up נ ג stories, they got on his nerves. He wished he had רו ת some hobby to work at - as a kid he was good in carpentry, but where could he work at it? Sometimes during the day he went for walks, but mostly he did his walking after the hot sun had 1) What does George wish he could do? gone down and it was cooler in the streets. 2) What reason does George give for why he goes for walks at night? What other reason might he have?

In the evening after supper George left the house and ה ב wandered in the neighborhood. יל During the sultry days some of ﺟﻮ ﺣﺎﺭ the storekeepers and their wives sat in chairs on the thick, broken sidewalks in front of the shops, fanning themselves, and George walked past them and the guys hanging out on the candy store corner. 1) Which words give us a clue that George’s neighborhood is poor? 2) George had know a couple of them “his whole life, but nobody recognized each other” what does he mean?

A couple of them he had known his whole life, but nobody recognized each other. He had no place special to go, but generally, saving it till the last, he left the neighborhood and walked for מעקה ברזל blocks till he came to a darkly little park with benches and trees and an iron 1)Why did George decide to sit in railing, giving it a feeling of privacy. the bench next to the iron railing?

He sat on a bench there, watching the leafy trees and the flowers blooming on the inside of the railing, thinking of a better life for himself. He thought of the jobs he had since he ﺩﺭﺍﺑﺰﻳﻦ ﺣﺪﻳﺪ had quit school - delivery boy, stock clerk, runner, מ א כ ז ב lately working in a factory - and he was dissatisfied 1) How many jobs had George had since he quit with all of them. school? high 2) How many things does George want that he doesn’t have? 3) Why do think he was dissatisfied with all the jobs he had so far?

He felt he should some day like to have a job and live in a private house with money a porch, on a street with trees. He wanted to have some dough in his pocket to buy things with, and a girl to go with, so as not to be lonely, especially on Saturday nights. He wanted people to like and respect him. He thought about these things often but mostly when he was alone at night. Around midnight he got up and drifted back to his hot and stony neighborhood. 4) Many immigrants come to move to American in search of American dream. A good job, money, freedom and better the living standard. In your opinion is George and his family living the American dream? 5) Based on part 1 of story how do you think George feels?

Dreaming of Better Life To Old for School Staying in My Room Quitting School Night Walks Sophie and Dad’s Work

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Connecting to the Text Pick a song that you think best deals with the feelings that George felt in the first part of our story. Write down the words of the song and underline the sentences from the song that best connect to George. Here are some of the feelings and ideas to help your search for the perfect song for George: Like when George Loneliness Sadness Wasting Time Waiting Depression No goes to the park Direction every night and dreams of a Example: Nowhere Man, by the Beatles better life. He's a real nowhere man Sitting in his nowhere land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody Doesn't have a point of view Knows not where he's going to Isn't he a bit like you and me? Nowhere man please listen You don't know what you're missing

Goals we Covered in the Lesson • I can understand the setting of the story • I can learn new vocabulary and know their meanings • I can follow and understand the basic events of the story